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4.00 | 2 ratings Expansion 2005	4.25 | 4 ratings Flux Echoes 2007	4.00 | 2 ratings Two Roads (collaboration with Javi Canovas, Adrian Dolente & Michael Daniel) 2013	4.50 | 2 ratings Isolated Passages 2020
4.09 | 2 ratings Isolated Passages Two 2020	4.33 | 3 ratings Prologue 2020	4.00 | 1 ratings Diffuser - The Rehearsal (collaboration with Adrian Dolente) 2020	5.00 | 1 ratings Isolated Passages Three 2021
4.50 | 2 ratings Phrases and Protocols 2021	4.00 | 2 ratings Cycles and Pulses 2022	4.14 | 5 ratings Strands 2025

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3.50 | 2 ratings Love in Concert 2006 - Part 1 2012

3.50 | 2 ratings Live in Concert 2006 - Part 2 and More 2012

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Studio Album, 2025
4.14 | 5 ratings
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Strands
Brendan Pollard Progressive Electronic

Review by alainPP

"Extracts" takes us straight to the mid-70s TANGERINE DREAM vibe with its dark, binary sound, embellished with distant reverberating guitar notes. Keyboards rule, followed by deep, ethereal choruses. These excerpts are a taster of her discography. "Interlocutor" is hypnotic, reverberating, and catchy, with its bouncy bass notes. "Regulo 75" with its syncopated pad, metronomic bass-keyboard-percussion, a slow derivation of the Mandarin sound with its dark aquatic sounds; the ending erases the oppression. "Primatonal" is an ephemeral ambient intro bringing the archaic flute to the forefront of the synth. "Shift" for its abrasive crescendo between the reverberating bass and its nostalgic sounds, flirting with JARRE, SCHULZE, and TANGERINE DREAM once again; an underwater finale.

"Corollary" brings a cheerful air to the whirring synths, reminiscent of the mid-70s mandarin era and its fade-in. "Vessel Redux" makes you close your eyes and try to figure out which TANGERINE DREAM track it is. As a fervent fan, I'll let you guess, but the slammed doors are a welcome clue. The sound could last an entire side: metronomic, hypnotic, captivating, Schulz-esque. "Flame" is an addictive electronic melting pot, a synthetic wave following the thread of old sounds with this recent ultrabass chord that makes you sway before the trance.

Brendan Pollard doesn't invent anything new, but keeps the electronic movement going: hypnotic, jerky, and syncopated. A tribute album immersed in the sounds of the aforementioned bands and keeping alive the hope of a revival. An ease of listening adorned with nostalgic technicality with flute, cinematic ambiances, Mellotron and Olympian choirs of the time.

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Studio Album, 2020
4.09 | 2 ratings
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Isolated Passages Two
Brendan Pollard Progressive Electronic

Review by sensedatum

Brendan Pollard use mainly analog devices, including the beloved mellotron, very much present in this recording a (string and choirs sounds). The music is Berlin School electronic, much in the style of mid to late 70s Tangerine Dream. Sequencers rythms and patterns all all over the way, with some noise-generated rythms. It creates a nice atmosphere for those who likes this kind of music. You just can let you go. I like to use this kind of music as as soundtrack for sci-fi book reading, wich I do oftten. And Brendan Pollard provides quite a nice soundtrack. On the other hand, if you pay close attention to the performance, you may say that sometimes the sequencer patterns are lacking some dynamics. Maybe not so much in this work, but in his other recordings. It is not like TD who had al least one guy devoted entirely to do the sequencer job. Anyway, this was the first album I heard from Pollard, and it was quite a nice surprise. As I said, you will enjoy this if you are into Berlin School sequencer-driven kind of music.

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