Minna Koskenlahti is a percussion player currently living in Helsinki. As a versatile musician, her playing has been heard in several bands, projects and albums. At the moment she is working with her solo project and playing in bands such as Barlast, Perpetuum Lokomobile and Meriheini Luoto & Metsänpeitto.

With her background in Nordic folk music, Minna has a melodic approach to percussion instruments. Minna is curious about finding the limits and limitlessness of her instruments, creating minimalistic, intensive and hypnotic sounds.

Koskenlahti graduated from Sibelius Academy’s Folk Music Department (University of Arts, Helsinki) in 2018 with a master’s degree in music.

Koskenlahti’s compositions are inspired by social themes which run through the Toinen/Other album. As a whole, the sound world of the album is intense and hypnotic in places, fragile and bare in others. As background literature in her composition process, Koskenlahti has been inspired by the works of Sara Ahmed, Frantz Fanon and Edward W. Said, among others.