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Jääportit


Jääportit is a one-man project producing frostbitten music and atmospheric sounds from Northern Finland since 1997. The name 'Jääportit' is written in Finnish and could be translated in English as The Gates of Ice or The Frostportals. Originally formed in Finland in 1997 as a solo project, Jääportit sits somewhere in between genres like ambient, darkwave and progressive electronic using both synthetic and natural sounds to create frosty, fragile, bewitching, polarizing, deep, atmospheric, transcendental, moving, serene, layered, esoteric, powerful but soothing music to keep you afloat in the astral stream. The first demo Halki lumisen metsän (1998) and cassette album Kauan koskematon (1999) introduced the music style as darkwave / synth-ambient, created in a vein of Mortiis, Arcana and Dead Can Dance, just to name few. Tuomas has always had a need to experiment with the music & the sound, find different ways and develop his approach to the creation of music. Therefore the next album Uumenissa (2005) contained music that had transformed into dreamful ambient, painted with soothing electronic synthwaves, atmospheric and cosmic sounds, inspired by old school pioneers Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, and modern artists like Biosphere and Steve Roach. Album was covered with beautiful water color paintings created by Mindy. Participation to compilation album Sonic Visions Of Middle-Earth (2005) contained 15 minutes long track Sydänyön samooja syvällä unten mailla ja mets...

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