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BRENDAN POLLARD

Progressive Electronic • United Kingdom


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Brendan Pollard biography
Brendan Pollard is a synthesist hailing from Hertfordshire, UK. He is one half of the Berlin School duo Rogue Element with Jerome Ramsey.

Pollard started his solo career in 2005 with the album "Expansion", and has been sporadically active ever since, both with solo and collaborative efforts. Pollard's sound is heavily inspired by the Berlin School work of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze etc., and is also similar to other UK synthesists such as Ian Boddy.

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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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 Strands by POLLARD, BRENDAN album cover Studio Album, 2025
4.14 | 5 ratings

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Strands
Brendan Pollard Progressive Electronic

Review by alainPP

4 stars "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.

 Isolated Passages Two by POLLARD, BRENDAN album cover Studio Album, 2020
4.09 | 2 ratings

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Isolated Passages Two
Brendan Pollard Progressive Electronic

Review by sensedatum

4 stars 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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