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
KALI Trio
BLAER
Ingrid Lukas
Nik Bartsch's Ronin
Dee Day Dub
Nik Bartsch
Sha's Feckel
Petros Klampanis
Makiko Hirabayashi
Steve Johns
Andrew Rathbun
Adam Fairhall & Johnny Hunter
Eivind Austad Trio
David Ferris Septet
Josephine Davies
