Jaap Louwes | it

Check 'Jaap Boots & de natte honden' op last.fm .

JAAP VINK was born in 1930. As a sound engineer he set up the Bilthoven electronic studio and directed it for six years. Since 1957 he has worked at the Utrecht studio, as composer and teacher. .

Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, voice performer and sound poet. His unfinished studies in physics, mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music, and a few years later a real breakthrough occurred: he discovered the power and flexibility of his voice. At present, he has developed into a prolific writer/composer and a specialist in the performance of sound poetry, supported by a powerful stage presence...

Jaap Louwes is a guitarist, singer/songwriter from Fryslân, in the Netherlands. Currently he lives in Haulerwijk. In his career, he was frontman of the formation Bricquebec, and in 2006, 2007 and 2008 he played with Doede Veeman, Piter Wilkens and Gurbe Douwstra as "de fjouer fryske trubadoers". .

Jääportit (translated as "The Gates of Ice" or "The Frostportals") is Tuomas M. Mäkelä (keyboards, programming). Originally formed in Finland in 1997 as Tuomas' solo project, Jääportit works somewhere in between genres like ambient, darkwave and progressive electronic using 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. First demo "Halki lumisen metsän" (1998) and cassette album "Kauan koskematon" (1999) introduced the music style as darkwave / synth-ambient, created in a vein of Mortiis, Arcana and Dead Can Dance,...