JÄÄPORTIT — Avarrus
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Dark (at times slowly rhythmic) ambient from Finland with a strong psychedelic / 70's touch, mainly handplayed on acoustic sources but also synths & organs, some reminds on the more dark droney pieces of LEGENDARY PINK DOTS.
"First the truly magnificent artwork of this luxury Digipak release deserves special mentioning as it has wonderful aquarel paintings by Mindy M. Heinonen that strongly remind of the work of Tor Lundvall. Mindy is also responsible for violin and vocals on this cd of the Finnish Jääportit. This cd is released by the Czech Epidemie records and after some research i found that we’re dealing with the Finnish Tuomas M. Mäkelä here, who has released his latest cd as Jääportit with the Finnish Firebox label, which is more known for it’s doom metal releases. Already 10 years this Fin is busy with ambient music, eventually inspired by Mortiis and Burzum, but over the years he manages to create more layered and intelligent dark ambient. Avarrus has 5 tracks consisting of quite organic sounding ambient with long-stretched drones and the usage of acoustic instruments such as a (manipulated) guitar, sound bowls and piano. Furthermore you’ll hear cold sounding synths and warm sounding flutes. With at times a very nice build-up in tension, with rhythms that set in, and make it resemble filmmusic and ambient-triphop from the ‘90s. The atmosphere on Avarrus is dreamlike. Somehow this reminds of the later albums of Ulver, but of Boards of Canada as well. Curious? Check for yourself as Jaaportit surely deserves the attention." [TekNoir / Gothtronic mag]
"First the truly magnificent artwork of this luxury Digipak release deserves special mentioning as it has wonderful aquarel paintings by Mindy M. Heinonen that strongly remind of the work of Tor Lundvall. Mindy is also responsible for violin and vocals on this cd of the Finnish Jääportit. This cd is released by the Czech Epidemie records and after some research i found that we’re dealing with the Finnish Tuomas M. Mäkelä here, who has released his latest cd as Jääportit with the Finnish Firebox label, which is more known for it’s doom metal releases. Already 10 years this Fin is busy with ambient music, eventually inspired by Mortiis and Burzum, but over the years he manages to create more layered and intelligent dark ambient. Avarrus has 5 tracks consisting of quite organic sounding ambient with long-stretched drones and the usage of acoustic instruments such as a (manipulated) guitar, sound bowls and piano. Furthermore you’ll hear cold sounding synths and warm sounding flutes. With at times a very nice build-up in tension, with rhythms that set in, and make it resemble filmmusic and ambient-triphop from the ‘90s. The atmosphere on Avarrus is dreamlike. Somehow this reminds of the later albums of Ulver, but of Boards of Canada as well. Curious? Check for yourself as Jaaportit surely deserves the attention." [TekNoir / Gothtronic mag]