{"title":"Rudiger Lorenz","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"invisible-voices","title":"Invisible Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst ever reissue of 'Invisible Voices'. Remastered from the original tapes. Full participation from the Lorenz estate. Originally pressed in an edition of 300. When he wasn't dispensing prescriptions in his day job as a pharmacist, the late German synth wizard Rüdiger Lorenz followed a truer passion, casting his own unique presence on the world of New Age music, and self-releasing a significant body of work on his own Syncord label.  His vinyl debut, 1983's 'Invisible Voices', highlights when Lorenz's busy, sprawling compositions and un-traditional tone banks came into their own. More restless and spirited than many of his musical colleagues, 'Invisible Voices' presents a vision of aural wanderlust, built for the journey and one's reflection on it afterwards.LP - Comes in a Gatefold sleeve with digital download code.  CD - Remastered and first time on CD.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50526455955787,"sku":"378331","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50526456250699,"sku":"378791","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d87ebb55-c113-4a63-a272-837d3eb5da20_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728043863"},{"product_id":"synrise-early-tape-recordings-1981-83-3","title":"Synrise - Early Tape Recordings 1981-83","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you're already aware of \u003cstrong\u003eRüdiger Lorenz\u003c\/strong\u003e, chances are you washed ashore on \u003cem\u003eSouthland\u003c\/em\u003e, his cult kosmische curio graciously reissued by the ever-benevolent Bureau B in the middle of the last decade. Either that, or you're one of the few hundred electronic music obsessives who encountered his work the first time round, giddily grabbing up the eighteen cassette, vinyl and CD releases the prolific part-timer delivered DIY style on his Syntape and Syncord imprints between 1981-1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI say this because despite a catalogue both copious and singular, and a renewed interest amongst the switched on and tuned in since his premature passing in 2000, Rüdiger's reception has remained sadly subterranean - another example of audio inequity. As such, it falls to \u003cem\u003eSynrise\u003c\/em\u003e, attentively assembled by Rüdiger's son Tim, to shine some rightful light on this unique talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased in Ingelheim on the south of the Rhein, Rüdiger was a pharmacist by trade, electing to spend his spare time and money on his musical monomania. Given the medicated nature of his stark and other-worldly synthscapes, one could be forgiven for presuming a predilection for the prescription pad, but in truth Lorenz was a teetotaller with an insatiable sonic thirst. This was the owner of 10,000 records and 38 synthesisers - a man who sang Kraftwerk's \"Fahrn Fahrn Fahrn auf der Autobahn\" as a nursery rhyme to a Tiny Tim while he sat between the blinking sequencers pretending to be a space man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnsurprisingly for a man who made eighteen solo albums around his day job, Lorenz was something of a loner, though it's hard to hear that through the emotional resonance of his releases. Selected from his first four releases, \u003cem\u003eQueen of Saba\u003c\/em\u003e (1981), \u003cem\u003eSilver Steps\u003c\/em\u003e (1981), \u003cem\u003eWonderflower\u003c\/em\u003e (1982) and \u003cem\u003eEarthrise\u003c\/em\u003e (1983), this septet boasts sci-fi anthems and sine wave requiems, nebulous cosmic collages of snapping rhythm boxes, gurgling sequences, and synthesised choirs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bureau B","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50932261847371,"sku":"2235274","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50932261749067,"sku":"2235272","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_73c81d04_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1733337816"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/rudiger-lorenz.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}