Aulus I & II, by Poltrock

Aulus I & II

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1.	Ceint (Aller) 02:52	buy track
2.	Ceint (Retour) 02:25	buy track
3.	Bray Dunes 06:25	buy track
4.	Belfast (Louis XXIV) 03:52	buy track
5.	Titanus Giganteus 03:51	buy track
6.	Belfast (Space CCI) 04:42	buy track
7.	Cirque 04:30	buy track
8.	Aulus #2 03:54	buy track
9.	Aulus #1 02:16	buy track
10.	Byron The Resonator 03:06	buy track
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12.	Half Speed Fourth 04:51	buy track
13.	The Tragedy Of Hanlet 03:44	buy track
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David Poltrock is a Brussels-based composer, producer and sound designer. He’s a member of the iconic Belgian rock band ‘De Mens’ but can boast countless collaborations as a producer and keyboard player with premium Belgian and international artists such as Hooverphonic, Triggerfinger, Salvatore Adamo, Portland, Prinz Pi, Monza and many others. His first solo release as a recording artist under the Poltrock moniker was 2018’s instrumental trilogy ‘Mutes, Moods & Machines’ in which he displayed an affection for intimate piano sounds, menacing drones and pulsating electronica. Poltrock’s music met with national and international acclaim earning him a Belgian ‘Music Industry Award’ (MIA) for best musician in 2019.

Poltrock’s first albums, cinematic as they are, paved the way for an increasingly successful career as a composer for film and television. He scored award winning films such ‘Wild Gene’ (2019), the Irish documentary ‘Young Plato’ (2021), ‘Holding up The Sky’ (2023) and ‘Planeet B’ (2023) as well as critically acclaimed TV shows such as ‘Studio Tarara’ (2019) or ‘Billie vs Benjamin’ (2022). His collaboration ‘Stay’ with RAVVEL was featured prominently in the French TV show ‘Il a déjà tes yeux’ and his ambient album VACUUM (2021) with Adriaan de Roover grew into an enigmatic multidisciplinary performance with dance, video and 3D sound.

The origins of this body of work began in May 2022 as Poltrock played a random sequence of notes on a forgotten and detuned upright piano in a remote hotel in Aulus-Les-Bains in the French Pyrenees. The muffled sound of the old Yamaha sparks a creative burst of new compositions. Poltrock explored his horizons in that godforsaken place. He decided to record his four pianos, crudely and honestly, and then edited them with tape effects, cassette loops and old, analogue effects devices. The melodies were at once intimate and compelling, with a confrontational and intense sound.

Enter the Sun*Sun*Sun String Orchestra, lifelong friends and collaborators with the likes of Einstürzende Neubauten, John Cale, Belle & Sebastian and Cinematic Orchestra. They were perfect traveling companions to translate Poltrock’s whispering and intimate string compositions to tape and to create a symbiotic pairing of struck and bowed string instruments. Five years after the acclaimed trilogy ‘Mutes, Moods & Machines’ Poltrock released the ‘Aulus I’ on vinyl in May 2023 and now ‘Aulus I & II’ together, as a diptych in this double disc album mirroring the vinyl packaging design. These sounds explore the vast space between classical and electronic music, blending organic strings and piano with experimental sound design.

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released November 24, 2023

Composed, Recorded & Mixed by David Poltrock at the Poltrock Palladium Mastered by Taylor Deupree for 12K Mastering
Strings by the Sun*Sun*Sun Orchestra:
Jeroen Baert (VI), Yumika Lecluyze (VI, VA), Karel Coninx (VA), Seraphine Stragier (VC)
Strings recorded by Joris Caluwaert at Finster Studio
Aulus #1, Aulus #2 and Ceint (Retour) recorded at CAMP, Aulus-Les-Bains, France

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