Markus Reuter, Sonar & Tobias Reber
Release Date: 02 June 2017
Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0610098164043
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
'Falling for Ascension' finds Germany-based composer and Touch Guitarist Markus Reuter working with live electronics specialist, Tobias Reber and Switzerland's post-minimal quartet, SONAR.
Since the late 1990s Markus Reuter has steadily made a name for himself as a formidable player, a gifted improviser and a composer for both rock and classical music ensembles. A specialist in touch guitar playing, Reuter became known as a leading player of the Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick during the 1990s and 2000s. In collaboration with former King Crimson member Trey Gunn, he runs the Touch Guitar Circle, a teaching and support network for touch guitar players.
Reuter is a member of multiple ongoing bands and projects (including centrozoon, Tuner, Stick Men, The Crimson ProjeKct and Europa String Choir). Most recently, he has begun to establish himself as a contemporary classical composer via the performance and recording of his large-scale orchestral piece Todmorden 513.
Perhaps sharing similar strands of the kind of polymetrical DNA that informed the interweaving knot-work of King Crimson's Discipline, the pointillist components with Reuter's pieces, interacting across the group, resembles a series of interlocking constellations whose orbits and traversals connect to create new variations and associations. Hypnotic and beguiling, the music comes with a guttural punch that's felt as much as heard.
Tracklisting
Nik Bartsch's Ronin
BLAER
Ingrid Lukas
Nik Bartsch's Ronin
Dee Day Dub
Nik Bartsch's Ronin
Nik Bartsch
Sha's Feckel
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
Ruby Rushton
Bob James & David Sanborn
