A new coffee table photobook, Movements of the Visionaries, captures the formative early years of Berlin electronic group Tangerine Dream through more than 480 colour and black-and-white images taken between 1972 and 1974.
The 320-page hardback features photographs by Hamburg-based Marcel Fugère, who worked with Ohr Records and Virgin Records. The images were unearthed alongside a larger archive following Fugère’s death in 2015.
Tangerine Dream, active since 1967, are widely cited as pioneers of kosmische, krautrock and progressive rock. The book focuses on a period many regard as the group’s creative and cultural peak, during which they released albums including Atem and Phaedra. Phaedra reached No. 15 on the UK album chart and entered the US Billboard 200. Its title track and ‘Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares’ later appeared in Bandersnatch, a 2018 interactive episode of the series Black Mirror.
Bianca Froese-Acquaye, Tangerine Dream’s manager and widow of founding member Edgar Froese, said:
“This is the second book project I’ve undertaken with Brad Duke, author and one of our most loyal American Tangerine Dream fans. I am simply thrilled by the many photos that Fugère took in Berlin, Paris, Cologne, London and elsewhere between 1972 and 1974. I am very glad that Fugère’s family, by granting permission for these wonderful photos to be used, has made it possible for international TD fans to see them now in the form of a hardback book.”
Movements of the Visionaries is available to order now. A second volume is scheduled for 2027.
