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Suntapes is musician, composer and producer Tomas Johan Kristian Vanderplaetse. His compositions are atmospheric soundtracks merging neo-classic, minimal, dark ambient electronics and ethnic music.

Tomas produces soundtracks for live performances, films and immersive experiences. He’s on a constant quest to find the right musical atmosphere for each visual story. In a more poetic way one could say that he sees sound. As a classically schooled pianist Tomas Johan Kristian developed his own neo-classic style on the grand piano. While traveling he gathered and learned to play a lot of unique ethnic instruments. More special sauce is added in his music through experimentation with analog synthesizers, effects on acoustic instruments and tape recording. As much as recording in the studio Suntapes loves to perform live.

10 albums and more than 100 tracks have been released since 2018. On 30 May 2025 the album Travel Motion is released with 8 relaxing and introspective tracks that bring you in a cinematic travel vibe in Galliano Island in Canada. 3 of the tracks in the album are Tomas Johan Kristian piano compositions with mellow Suntapes arrangements.

While travelling in Kyrgyzstan in 2025, Tomas has filmed a lot of inspirational nature landscapes. And then he composed 6 meditative track as soundtracks for these Kyrgyzstan moods. On december 12, the first track Issyk Kul has been released. The coming months the next tracks will be released. And currently he is also composing tracks for other videos of beautiful destinations in the world. This project is going towards a new immersive live music performance with meditative earth mood videos and also towards a inspirational travel website with stunning video material of specific places.

Currently (2025-2026) Suntapes can be booked for these performances:

Extricate: A hand balancing dance performance with live music & foley performance that offers the audience a soothing universe.

Tomas Johan Kristian: solo neo-classical piano set with his own compositions. LP can be ordered: https://www.tomasjohankristian.com/

Regenerative Flows: An immersive and complete relaxing audiovisual performance as full frame realistic visual journey with a live soundscape Suntapes music performance.

Suntapes live show: With all new releases, the Suntapes performances is always updating. From now on the show will be the immersive live music performance with meditative earth mood videos.

Tomas is also working on afrotrance music with artist Deogracias Kihalu with a lovely performance in Kinshasa in 2023 and this year a lovely performance on July 13th 2025.

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Issyk Kul
Issyk Kul

Relax while watching the Issyk Kul video with the new Suntapes track that is released on 12 December 2025. While travelling in Kyrgyzstan in 2025, I filmed many beautiful nature landscapes inside Issyk Kul Lake and on the mountains around it. Even in summer it is easy to find desolate walking areas in that area on the east of Kyrgyzstan.

Travel motion
Travel motion

Towards the new Suntapes album TRAVEL MOTION , many singles are being released. These tracks immerse listeners in a cinematic vibe and travel motion. Each track is crafted with gentle melodies on warm acoustic instruments accompanied by atmospheric soundscapes and melodramatic arrangements. Perfect for relaxation and introspection. Plaza, Motion and Fathom combine minimalistic piano with Mellotron Flute and analogue synthesizers melodies.

Piano solo music by Tomas Johan Kristian
Piano solo music by Tomas Johan Kristian

Album "Phantom" by Tomas Johan Kristian is out on September 27th. Wavering between melodramatic subtle beauty and energetic minimalism, the solo piano pieces of Tomas Johan Kristian have a soothing feel and warm sound. His quirky approach to classical compositions sprung from his character to avoid the expected and to submerge in his own organic connection with repetitiveness.