PAUWELS, a prolific and shape-fitting band born in 2011 finds its name in the Louis Pauwels’s and Jacques Bergier’s « The Morning of the Magicians » auto-da-fé from which it draws its symbolic power. The very first years were devoted to the making of their very first musical effort with a self-titled EP released in 2013.
With the arrival of a second drummer, the band went on gaining more and more popularity thanks to the noteworthy « Elina » in 2015 and « Kobal » at the end of the same year. Extensive touring shaped the 5 piece band reputation as being « stage performers » and allowed them to share bills with « UNS » (with the guitarist from INGRINA) and even released the ‘U.P’ split album in 2016.
PAUWELS was born again in 2017 when the second drummer Marlon Saquet left the band. So as a 4 piece band, they started over, almost from scratch and pushed their limits. The new LP « POENA CULLEI » marked the beginning of this new era.
Recorded live in October 2018 for the « October Tone Parties », the record retraces this new beginning process through a gravelly and psychedelic 30-minute trance.
A huge bonfire with blowing embers aiming at the listener’s skin. « POENA CULLEI » crackles to become the soundtrack of the books it finds its inspiration from and unveils the music from these fantasies and mystical civilizations which fueled Pauwels’s and Bergier’s fantastic realism.