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 in sight, 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 the bassline. It’s an open hang. The door’s open; come on in.

Tipula - Greening

Tipula - Green

Tipula - Miss Divine

Tipula - They Say

The first single from Tipula’s Raw Tapes debut album, Greening, may be called “Sand” – but it captures the feeling of bobbing in the waves. The duo of singer Dana Dunietz and multi-instrumentalist Eldar 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.