Jääportit ‎– Kauan Koskematon (1999)

Country: Finland

Tracklist

1. Askeleet Valottomuuteen 05:42
2. Kauan Koskematon 05:29
3. Unohdetut Lumouksen Unelmat 04:32
4. Kauas 04:23
5. Tulensinisen Hohto 04:09
6. Talvenkaltainen 07:33
7. Hänen Jäätävä Katseensa 06:41
8. Kohtalon Sinetti 01:36

Jääportit was started by Tuomas M. Mäkelä as his solo project in the northern parts of Finland in 1997.
First demo “Halki Lumisen Metsän” was self-published in 1998 as a limited to 50 handmade CDR's.
In 1999 the limited to 500 copies cassette album “Kauan koskematon” was released by the Finnish label Noitavasara, introducing the music style of Jääportit, creating dreamy synth/ambient/neo classical, in the vein of Mortiis and Arcana.
This release also featured artwork cover done by Aslak Tolonen from the Finnish band Nest.
Next album “Uumenissa” (Firebox Records, 2004) contained dreamful frostbitten ambient music, 

painted with soothing electronic synthwaves, atmospheric and cosmic sounds.
The 3rd full-length Jääportit album “Avarrus” (Epidemie Records, 2006) kept on the line of musical experiments 

as it had more rhythmic elements, electronic beats and percussion, than the earlier releases.  
Jääportit released its 4th full-length album entitled “Voimasuo” in 2009 as a CD Digipak by Epidemie Records.

This wide-ranging album introduced another metamorphosis of Jääportit 

as combination of ambient electronica with the touch of frosty post-rock flavours.
The latest fifth full-length Jääportit album titled as “Jääportit” was released in 2018.
For this album, Tuomas created everything by himself from composing music to designing album covers,
so as to maintain the aspect of loneliness and diy-spirit as it was back in 1997, when he started this project.

Only now guitar was more involved than before and all songs were built around guitar riffs.

Sound is less “dungeon synth” and more “post-rock” in a way.
Also in 2018 the Ukrainian label Old Captain released the "Halki Lumisen Metsän" and "Kauan Koskematon" records 

for the first time on a compilation CD as a 6-panel matte-laminated Digipak, limited to 300 copies.

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