Tipula’s Raw Tapes debut, Greening, took shape as Eldar Brantman and Dana Dunietz began playfully fusing trip-hop, vocal jazz and classic funk in Eldar’s home studio. With no deadline, slowly Greening emerged. “Creation is necessary for me; like breathing,” says Dunietz. Necessary, but not a burden. These eight tracks sound like two friends enjoying each other, trading melodies between keys and vocals, lightly bouncing over basslines. It’s an open hang, as the two laugh, write, and exploring their smoothed-out jams. Come on in.
The first single may be called “Sand,” but it captures the feeling of bobbing in the waves. The duo of singer Dunietz and multi-instrumentalist Brantman called on Tel Aviv’s Gilad Abro to lay the jazz-pop song’s bassline backbone, while Dunietz sings a prayer to the deep ocean, “sacred and profaned.” It’s a meditation born from Tipula’s home studio sessions, a song as comforting as stepping into warm sea waters, your feet in the sand. To create “Not Only Me,” the second single from Greening, the duo set out to create music that felt like a jazz standard, updated. Their own “Fly Me to the Moon.” The result is “a break-up song, offering something that gave me so much joy over to the world,” says singer Dunietz. With hip-hop-vibing drums, Dunietz’s playful melody and Brantman’s twinkling Rhodes keyboard, “Not Only Me” is a winking invitation to release, exhale, and unite.
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Recommended Tracks: Track 5, “Sand,” Track 4, “Not Only Me”
