Barlast examines the boundaries between composition and improvisation. The quartet brings together influences from both the archaic and modern Nordic folk music tradition as well as European jazz and improvised music.

 

Nina-Maria Oförsagd's separate film sequences have been made (and continues to be made) in an Asian environment, in urban million cities (Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong and imaginative Lin-Tsi). Oförsagd is looking for places in different unique surroundings where there is still a magic layer of time where she can squeeze in and build the fictional world and mood she visualizes. Oförsagd also works with local artists on site, with movement and expression using performance and improvisation as a working method in making the separate film sequences.

 

Breaks at Dawn also exists as a short movie without the live element

 

Philip Holm – double bass and synthesizer

Heikki Hänninen – guitars

Minna Koskenlahti – percussion and flute

Sanna Salonen – soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and mänkeri

Nina-Maria Oförsagd – live visuals