story'n'discography:

The group was formed in the late 8O-ies by dr Máriás from artists gathered around the May Gallery in Novi Sad - YU who regularly took part in different events of music, performance, poetry, visual and multimedia art. The team made a great number of gigs and recordings in the mid and late eighties, in which their musical and artistic language involved elements of experimental and improvised music, art-rock and jazz and rose a specific language of strong, direct expression. From 1989 to 1996 dr Máriás made dramatic theatric performances based on absurd poems during the period of the war in Yugoslavia.

- Atom-bite is my fight (1991) MC

is their first published material. Since 1991 , due to the war in Yugoslavia Máriás continues work in Budapest with new artists from Hungary.

- Mend Ya Mind (1993) MC

reflects the different musical and verbal levels of their work through experiences where their vivid artistic approach (absurd poems, strong art-rock songs, improvisation, etc.) becomes determined as ever-changing and multicoloured.

- Flying Science (1995-CD,MC)

reflects by cathartic existential and artistic transposition the dyeing of the common spiritual reality of East-Europe. At the same time the

- Skyeater (1995-book-catalogue)

album was published, which is a compilation of Máriás's and Bada's drawings, paintings, poems, novels and documents. In 1996 the group comes up with a refreshing new material, the

- Solar Scholar (1997-CD-Rom,MC)

which is dedicated to Charley, the idiotic , peaceful and human officer of the war. In 1998 first a compilation record was published, the

- Drumming On My Spine (1998-CD)

then they had their latest material the

- Selfscience (1998-CD)

published, which is both strong and astonishing as an artistic, above all relevant document of present time in East-Europe.

Tudósok is a leading member of the currently thriving Budapest scene. Poet, musician and painter drMáriás who settled in Hungary coming from Yugoslavia has quickly become one of the most original and interesting figures of the Hungarian art scene, especially for his concerts/performances with the Scientists, a unique band playing concerts bursting with energy, epileptic rhythm, expessive poetry and dadaistic tales. Rooted in the civil-war on the border of East and West their music transmits a pure energy of improvisation, avant garde, jazz and folk at the same time into a scream that is joyful to hear. Art-critics have mentioned the Lounge Lizards, A. Chekhov, Blurt, Arto Lindsay, Joseph Bowie, Pere Ubu at their efforts of comparing their music with something common, but they seem to be something else, something new, definitely worth experiencing. The Scientists are dr Máriás - voice, alto-sax, cornet, zurla; Benedek Kovács - guitar; Krisztián Bartha – drums and Tony Dezso – baritone sax.

"From the aspect of the survival of my kind I find the formula, which the Scientists have invented very important. It's a greater secret than the nuclear fusion. There's soul in the product, spirit in the machine. In the case of these Scientists - on the contrary to those lunatics concocting in huge laboratories and academies - we can witness a divine science, which has been produced from the shittiest shit, potentially in huge industrial amounts."

/Najmányi László , Élet és Irodalom/

"The Selfscience is an important record that sounds as one million dollars. It's like a neatly carved and precisely hit peg in Dracula's heart. This very fine jazz that's coming from far away covers my window with gold.

" /T.C.T.C. , Merlin/

"Tudósok play a hard, merciless, murderous industrial jazz, the whitest noise, the most obstinate cacophony, exactly that domain of rhythm, sound and frequency, which can make you forget the death rattle of the world committing hara-kiri. They are those survivors that correctly choose either humour or tragedy. Their world is true, unpredictable and full of surprises, bebop logical and bionically sensitive. They are the Lounge Lizards of Budapest. DrMáriás's texts touch the right hemisphere of your hungry brain exactly at the point where it is the least defended. The same is caused by his saxophone play concerning the even lonelier gray matter of the left part of the brain. His stage appearance cites a Swedish atomic scientist who is just sprinkling his sandwich with nucleus. Tóni Dezs0 is like a visiting Norwegian pathologist. He is obviously bored with the theory of relativity. With his tiny saxophone he cuts through the texture precisely as a scalpel. The intellectual load is counterpointed by the rhythm section: the guitar-play of Benedek Kovács is worth more masses than have been held in town since the declaration of the Turanian curse, plays bass, rhythm and solo-guitar in one. Krisztián Bartha is one of the very few good drummers of Budapest, he not only feels the tic-tac of the World-clock but can produce it.

/Sir David O'Clock, Wanted/

"Tudósok play a unique industrial jazz, which could be described as a slightly epileptic and a bit frustrated one. It rises from a special common inspiration of the musicians, which overwhelms and unites their improvisation into a strong form of their whole music that is always tense, interesting and full of ideas."

/Pierre Durr , Revue & Corrigée/

"Tudósok have introduced themselves by concerts of stunning strength, quoting the best days of chaos-jazz with their brutality and unruliness. They have put together a new album, the Selfscience with lightning-speed, which is really one of the best and strongest in Hungary ever. It surpasses all expectations: it's fearful, full of energy, desperate, apocalyptic."

/Uj Péter , iNteRNeTTo/

"Creative nihilism against the false and corrupt reality, humour that defends from the existential pain, the urban energy of rebellion and rustic melancholy in a one-breath boarderless "rock": intriguing, humorous, strong.

.."/Boris Kovac , Interzone catalogue/

"The Scientists' artistic engagement exceeds the frames of actual everyday existential, social and political borders. It critisises everything: the former and present regimes, the artists and not artists, the mortal and immortal. Ridicule, irony, criticism - they make up together that very hand which irritates, makes laughing, makes thinking the listener with its slaps."

/B.P.B. , Képes Ifjúság/

"When listening to the Tudósok I feel as being on a neutral territory: it could be Paris-New Wave or New York-Last Wave, an unpredictable, alive and first of all real world common with Tim Wright's and Arto Lindsay's DNA ideas. I wouldn't be surprised if they won a lot of jazz-festivals soon."

/Ambiance 21, Wanted/

"I went home, listened to the record of the Scientists and told myself, that it was bigger luck to hear it than to have found a hundred German Marks."

/Makai József , Magyar Narancs/

"....an anarcho-punk art-orchestra that mobilises profound energies, which unite the strictly modelled reduction of the musical elements' type-moments with the East-European and first of all Hungarian culture sphere's suicidal barbarian energies. As an emblem of their work they chose the idea of science, which on one hand sounded grotesque, on the other it pointed to the instinct-ontology of the Science of Existence."

/Endre Szkárosi , Élet ÉS Irodalom/

"The Scientists' recently published Mend Ya Mind material is likely to be the best among the Hungarian art-rock or underground or any other field since the two Bizottság records. You can hear on it at least three or four songs, that are definitely among the best Hungarian art-rock songs ever."

/Új Péter , Népszabadság/

"The world is kept together only by the music" - wrote in an introduction to a record in 1987 Bernáth(y) Sándor. The Flying Science as a poetical-musical work dramatically proves this idea. The musical forms have been reduced to the extremes, the cold horn-sounds remind us of the sometime-existed humanity and then poetry starts off with lifting us. The most harrowing moments are those of Máriás's two screamed poems, the Falling hole's extremely simplified cosmic horror, and the historical cry of his I won't give away my wine poem."

/Endre Szkárosi , Élet ÉS Irodalom/

"Dr Máriás has never been a man who enjoys convention. An ethnic Hungarian brought up in the town of Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia, he annoyed the local Hungarian community there by

choosing to spend his student days studying and collecting Serbian folk music. Since "turning down the invitation to the Vukovar performance", as he puts it, and coming to live in Budapest, he has been busy painting and performing with Tudósok (The Scientists). The band's strong, jazzy, disjointed sound, combined with their absurd repetitive, tragic and funny lyrics and costumes, have made them a regular feature at alternative clubs across the land."

/Simon Evans , Budapest Week/