JÄÄPORTIT is Tuomas M. Mäkelä (keyboards, music and sound)and Mindy M. Heinonen (violin, voice and visual art) from Oulu, Finland. Originally formed in 1997 as Tuomas' solo project, the now-duo creates mostly instrumental music that combines styles from cold atmospheric ambient electronica to frostbitten post-rock. Band uses 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. Name Jääportit is Finnish meaning The Gates of Ice or more freely translated The Frost Portals in English.
supported by 6 fans who also own “Kuihtuman Henkivi”
It's hard to pick a favourite track. This is the only album i have so far deemed as "perfect", where every track, even the intro, is just a masterpiece in its own right. From the hard hitting Perturbator's Theme to the emotional title track, its 68 minutes of perfection. 10/10. connivingkhajiit
The great Oakland atmospheric black metal band Abstracter returns with a punishing new EP pulled from the depths of hell. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2021
A foreboding black-doom metal dirge, meditating on a dark world caked in ash, resulting from all the Earth’s nuclear arsenal detonating at once. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 14, 2018
supported by 6 fans who also own “Kuihtuman Henkivi”
Powerful, plaintive expression of the fathomless sorrow of our suffering cetaceans and their depthless home, together with the indescribable loveliness of their distant blue-black realm. I feel as much interstellar space here as I do deep ocean, equally crushing and buoying. Dave Aftandilian