Compilation takes the electronics musician from Rhineland-Palatinate out of forgetting.
As is well known, the pop has been giving its gaze back more than forward. The obsession of pop culture from its own past also has its good sides. Because not only the Fleetwood-Mac album Rumors for the 37th time is desolated on a pile-blown splatter vinyl, but also recovered a number of treasures that would otherwise have been forgotten. Or in the case of Rüdiger Lorenz: remained.
The man from Ingelheim, in the main job pharmacist, released albums with electronic music from 1981 to 1998 (!), In small stages on his own labels, first as cassettes, then on vinyl and CD. For the recordings, 38 synthesizers were available to him in his home studio. So he didn’t do any things.
The seven tracks from Syrise- early tape recordings 1981-83 come from Lorenz’s first four albums. In addition to traces of industrial and experimental proto techno in some tracks (“38-17-34”, “Chamomilla Sabinae”), the closeness to the melody-loving tangerine Dream of the early eighties (“Dreaming of Saba”) and the music of Klaus Schulze from this time (“Celebrity of Sigma”). The recordings show that this hobby musician, who died in 2000 at the age of 58, was by no means a amateur.
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