Jääportit track Kuihtuman Henkivi was originally released on compilation album ”YOGSOTHERY – Gate I: Chaosmogonic Rituals Of Fear” as CD in a cardboard slipcase with 20-page full colour booklet with liner notes and lyrics by I, Voidhanger Records at 2010.

The compilation opens with a 25-minute track by Jääportit , a dark ambient / darkwave project from Finland and while it is the least “Metal” track on here, it surely offers some lovecraftian atmospheres of gloom-and-doom through obscure soundscapes and voices organized in layers around a lead synth. Here, Jääportit is not afraid (compared to other projects such as Vinterriket) to display invention and playfulness that one might have already had experienced on excellent albums such as ’Avarrus’ or ’Uumenissa’ and that makes the project a standout in the genre. For sure the release could not find a better invocation of an atmosphere of out-of-space colors.
- Review by Lukas Makovicky / Doom-metal.com

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Tracks

“Sydänyön samooja syvällä unten mailla ja metsien soilla” from “Sonic Visions of Middle-Earth” (2005)
“Gnosis” from “My Own Wolf: A New Approach to Ulver” (2008)
“Autius” from “Field Recordings Compilation Vol I” (2009)
“Kuihtuman henkivi” from “YOGSOTHERY – Gate I: Chaosmogonic Rituals Of Fear” (2009)

We have received our copies of the Yogsothery compilation album. Order yours from us for the meager sacrifice of 10 EUR (includes planetwide postage). Take contact to us via email to tuomas@jaaportit.net (that’s also our PayPal address). Visit our Web Shop page for more details about ordering.

You can also order this album from Record Shop X or Epidemie Records E-shop.

The CD jewel-case comes in a cardboard slipcase and it features 20-page full colour booklet with liner notes and lyrics. Album features over 77 minutes of music and cosmic sounds of horror.

“The CD consists of only four tracks, but the artists hold nothing back, crafting more than 77 minutes of mind-numbing and nerve-stimulating music ever set to a compact disc. Each band reached deep into their notion of the essence of Lovecraft and his literary creations, and the end result is astonishing for fans into drone, ambiance, and understated but moving metal.”
- SANTA FE METAL MUSIC EXAMINER / Review by Octavio Ramos

“By far, the strongest track is the nearly 26 minute opener entitled “Kuihtuman Henkivi” by horror electronica duo Jääportit. A haunting scream of harmonics and electronic tones sort of reminiscent of “Lux Aeterna” from the 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack, this nightmarish abyss provides the perfect accompaniment to Great Cthulhu’s emergence from R’lyeh. If any track comes close, on this album, at least, to personifying the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos, this is it, and really makes the album worth purchasing for this track alone.”
- METAL FLOWS IN MY VEINS / Review by Dschalek

“In the beginning you’re still accompanied by singing birds even though me music keeps pulling and pulling you in, like a black hole pulls on light. As the music gets harsher, the birds fly away, leaving you all alone and you’re completely submerged in the music.”
- DRROOM / Review by 100SL

Listen to a sample of Jääportit – Kuihtuman Henkivi

JAAPORTIT – Kuihtuman Henkivi (sample) by I, Voidhanger Records

Finally, the time has come for I, Voidhanger Records to inaugurate its series of special thematic releases centered on the osmotic relationship between metal and Literature. Out on November 15th, “Chaosmogonic Rituals Of Fear” is the first volume in the YOGSOTHERY trilogy of metal tributes to the genius of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos!

120 years after the birth of the gentleman from Providence, 4 underground bands passed the Gates of Unknown to distill their Lovecraftian cosmic visions of horror and madness in 4 monumental tracks, exclusive to this release. Secretly assembled during the years, ”YOGSOTHERY – Gate I: Chaosmogonic Rituals Of Fear” features over 77 minutes of obscure avant-garde prog metal, abysmal dark soundscapes and frightening blackened space-doom courtesy of the Finnish avant-masters AARNI and UMBRA NIHIL, the cosmic-ambient psychonauts JÄÄPORTIT (FIN), and the mysterious space-doom project CAPUT LVIIIm (ITA), a one-time-only monster featuring members of the necro-doomsters Malasangre and the black-ambient visionaries Tronus Abyss.

Track List:

I. JÄÄPORTIT – Kuihtuman Henkivi (25:31) Listen to sample
II.  UMBRA NIHIL – Suur-Nikkurin Virsi (10:46)
III.  AARNI – Lovecraft Knew (11:34)
IV.  CAPUT LVIIIm – Resurgent Atavism (29:57)

Total Time 77:48

Jewelcase CD housed in a cardboard slipcase. Comes with 20-page full-colour booklet complete with liner notes and lyrics!

• Visit label website for more info
• Listen to sample of the Jääportit track on YouTube
• Read first album review at HellRideMusic.com

Album’s concept comes from the depths of Siberia. This various artists compilation features only field recordings including projects from Russia, Finland, Italy and other countries from around the globe. The cold sound of the wind from the frozen steppes right into your living room.

Album is a contribution of several peoples:
_Algol_ & Stuzha (idea, mixing, mastering, photos)
Tuomas M. Mäkelä from Jääportit (cover design and pictures)
Species Productions (printing, releasing and distributing)
Laurinda Demelo (photo artworks).

Album was released as 8-pages digibook CD-R by a Greece label Species Productions at July 2009.

For more info and purchasing the album visit these sites:

• Field Recordings Compilation Myspace
• Species Productions Myspace

JÄÄPORTIT – Voimasuo
Smashing new album of frosty Finnish project JÄÄPORTIT. Seven atmospheric compositions blending together dreamy ethereal ambient, cold rhythmical Nordic electronics and melancholic post-rock. The album is thematically dedicated to the world under transformation. Intense, strong, polymorphous and mostly instrumental album hardly fits in conventional categories, because it´s kind of a musical labyrinth, definitely worth of exploring. The album is coming out in nice six panels digipack in limited edition of 600 pieces.

THY CATAFALQUE – Róka hasa rádió
Hungarian THY CATAFALQUE was born in 1998 as epic black metal band. Since that time it has progressed to its actual, very original music that can be described as avant-garde post black metal / ambient / folk. Tamás Kátai and János Juhász, the forming couple of THY CATAFALQUE, invited nine other musicians (viola, cello, clarinet etc.) as guests and they recorded very unusual 70 minutes album called Róka hasa rádió. The whole album is in Hungarian, male vocal is completed with beautiful ethereal female voice of guest singer Ágnes Tóth (The Moon and the Nightspirit). Róka hasa rádió is coming out in nice eight panels digipack in limited edition of 600 pieces.

CLOSING THE ETERNITY – Noughtwards
After very successful album Nearby Being (2006, in cooperation with Ad Lux Tenebrae project), a new album of mysterious project from Russian Ural is being released. 74 minutes long composition called Noughtwards is full of dark harmonic drones and subtle pulsations, and is meant to multiply your inner self by zero and to take you off… noughtwards. The album is coming out in nice six panels digipack in limited edition of 600 pieces.

Now Epidemie Records offers all of these albums for a special price:
13 EUR (1st class airmail included) for one CD or
30 EUR (Europe) / 31 EUR (World) (1st class airmail included and registered) for all three CD´s.

Take contact to Epidemie Records for PayPal address and other details.
E-mail: info@epidemie.cz
Website: www.epidemie.cz

The 4th full-length Jääportit album Voimasuo has finally been finished. Album will be released as 600 copies limited edition CD in 6-panel digipak covers by Epidemie Records, a fine indie record label in Czech Republic.

According to the latest information album will be available on 12th of May 2009!

Track listing of Voimasuo (Vigor Swamp):

01. Tuulten tuoja (Bearer of Winds)
02. Arvoitusten luona (Close to Mystery)
03. Suon sulaessa (Thawing Swamp)
04. Hengenvaara (Mortal Danger)
05. Sudenkuoppa (Wolf Pit)
06. Muuntuva suoja (Transforming Aegis)
07. Katoaminen tornissa (Disappearance in Tower)

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Russian underground production team Aspherical Asphyxia has released an international tribute to ULVER called “My Own Wolf: A New Approach”. The nearly three-hour long set, which commemorates ULVER‘s 15th anniversary, is being released in two ways: The first is the free Internet release, available now via the project’s official web site. “My Own Wolf: A New Approach” will also be issued as a physical double-CD.

On July, 28th 2008 COLD DIMENSIONS – label will release “My Own Wolf: A New Approach to ULVER”, compilation achieved by an armarda of young and comparably ambitious artists that are rather inspired by the band’s great spirit and artistic vision than a mere form of musical expression. Thus this double CD contains songs from almost the band’s entire opus (from the legendary 1993 demo tape “Vargnatt” up to “Blood Inside” from 2005) in a wide range of styles and musical colours.

Jääportit is part of the compilation album with the cover of Ulver track “Gnosis” originally released on Metamorphosis EP. Our version includes vocals by Mindy M. Heinonen and electric guitar played by Vesa Partti (of Sadkarma). You can listen to the track on Last.fm Music website