The quartet was formed in Helsinki in 2016 and has released three albums: Live and Electric (2021), Svanvik (2019) and Ihantola (2017). Barlast has been said to “play their ethereal and expressive music so magnificently that the in principle challenging fusion of folk music, jazz and improvisation captures the listener” (Onni Rajaniemi, Kansanmusiikki magazine 2/2019).
