Unordinary sounds are reaching us from Tupolev out of Vienna. Founded back in 2002, punk-alike with the buying of their instruments, Tupolev soon enlarge their soundcosmos by keys, synthesizers and string instruments. After several changes of the band’s constitution, their hermetic Folk becomes more and more experimental without losing its perticular beauty.

Throughout their selftitled debut-EP, there is a feeling of vagueness and stumbling. Tupolev play very slow, add a lot of time-changes and keep rolling around all common harmonies. It’s a kind of Jazz-Music, for these guys know exactly what they’re doing: Song number four, called As For Misery, sounds like a sad drunken sailorman walking home at five o’clock in the morning. Deep minor chords, singing, field-rec, a little drums. But boy, after seven minutes the sun seems to rise; sounds increase like the city awakens and a melody as-beautiful-as-it-can-get emerges from the depths, lasting only for a few seconds before the song ends. On the other end of the spectrum there is Rnd, the song afterwards, a mathematical piece of Chamber-Folk, precise and perfect.

It takes Tupolev three songs and exactly 12 minutes and 17 seconds to raise their voices. And when they do so, nothing really happens- their singing isn’t meant for grapping one’s attention, to carry emotion or even content. It’s just a further instrument to acomplish their certain vision of contemporary Avant-garde Folk-Music.

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