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Finland (1997 – present)

Jääportit (traslated as The Gates of Ice or The Frostportals) is Tuomas M. Mäkelä (keyboards/programming) and Mindy M. Heinonen (violin/voice). Originally formed in Finland in 1997 as Tuomas’ solo project, the duo now works somewhere in between genres like , and using both synthetic and natural sounds to create frosty, fragile, bewitching, polarizing, deep, , transcendental, moving, serene, layered, esoteric, powerful but soothing music to keep you afloat in the stream.

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First demo (1998) and cassette album “Kauan koskematon” (1999) introduced the music style as darkwave or 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 M. Heinonen.

Participation to compilation album “Sonic Visions Of Middle-Earth” (2005) contained 15 minutes long track PlaySydänyön samooja syvällä unten mailla ja metsien soilla drawing inspiration from J.R.R.Tolkien’s stories, and used session musician J-M Kenttälä (of Ruotomieli fame) for playing the acoustic guitar.
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