Jazz Articles about Markus Reuter

About Markus Reuter

Album Review

J. Peter Schwalm & Markus Reuter: Aufbruch

Read "Aufbruch" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
July 27, 2021

German electro-acoustic composer J. Peter Schwalm is probably best known for collaborating with Brian Eno on Drawn From Life (Opal, 2001) and other projects. More recently, he created How We Fall (RareNoise, 2018) and Neuzeit (RareNoise, 2020), the latter a collaboration with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen. Touch guitarist and composer Markus Reuter has been prolific, recent releases including Truce (MoonJune Records, 2020), Nothing Is Sacred (MoonJune Records, 2020) and Shapeshifters (MoonJune Records, 2020), as well as Music Of Our Times ...

Album Review

J. Peter Schwalm & Markus Reuter: Aufbruch

Read "Aufbruch" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
July 12, 2021

The first recorded collaboration between J. Peter Schwalm and Markus Reuter, Aufbruch, is one of those very rare and unusual albums that unobtrusively, almost surreptitiously, wends its way into the subconscious. It compels repeated and often frequent replays, not so much to comprehend the arcane sounds, but to simply become immersed in the moods and textures the two men generate. Synths, pianos, live treatments, programming and electronic percussion from the former interweave with the Touch Guitars, soundscapes and ...

Album Review

J. Peter Schwalm / Markus Reuter: Aufbruch

Read "Aufbruch" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 23, 2021

In 2020 electro-acoustic programmer/keyboardist J.Peter Schwalm paired up with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen for the excellent outing Neuzeit (RareNoiseRecords), one of the year's standout discs. 2021 finds Schwalm collaborating with touch guitarist Markus Reuter, of Stickmen fame. The music this collaboration creates can be described as industrial sound-scaping mixed with noises welling up from deep Earth or emanating in from deep space, tectonic and galactic at the same time. “Wall of sound" is a phrase used to describe ...

Album Review

Reuter / Motzer / Grohowski: Shapeshifters

Read "Shapeshifters" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 14, 2021

These highly respected artists turn in an impressionable assault on progressive rock, extended with avant-garde tendencies and gobs of mind-bending improv via these four instantaneous compositions as they launch the cosmic proceedings with the 22- minute oeuvre, “Dark Sparks." Here, touch guitarist Markus Reuter (Stick Men, Mark Wingfield) and guitarist Tim Motzer (David Sylvian, Bandit 65) enact brooding and sanctified themes with menacing lines and existential EFX treatments, supported by drummer Kenny Grohowski's (Simulacrum, Dapp Theory) dexterous brushwork.

Album Review

Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar 2

Read "Fractal Guitar 2" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
April 25, 2021

Guitarist and composer Stephan Thelen's Fractal Guitar (MoonJune Records, 2018) found him stepping outside of his role in the band Sonar in a big way. An absolute feast of multiple guitars with electronic effects, live looping and soundscaping, it also featured a star-studded group of guest guitarists (not to mention a grooving rhythm section). The good news is that almost all of them are back for the second installment, along with some new friends. The original album was largely created ...

Radio & Podcasts

Touch Guitarist Markus Reuter, Terje Rypdal, ARC Trio, Chris Taylor Ranjit Barot and Trilok Gurtu

by Len Davis
April 11, 2021

Music from Markus Reuter's most recent album Truce, ARC Trio featuring Jimmy Haslip, Scott Kinsey and Gergo Borlai and Ranjit Barot and Trilok Gurtu. Playlist Markus Reuter"Swoonage" from Truce (Moonjune) 00:00 Terje Rypdal “Ornen" from Selected Recordings (ECM 06:12 ARC Trio “Joan Miro" from ARC Trio (Blue Canoe)12:25 Chris Taylor “Green Divided By Blue" from Nocturnal (Abstract Logix) 18:32 Ranjit Barot “Pack Your Bags" from Chingari Bombay Makossa (Abstract Logix) 24:40 Steve Hunt “First Creation" from Connections (Spice ...

Radio & Podcasts

A Selection Of The Best New Releases From 2020

by Len Davis
December 30, 2020

A random selection of the best are releases from 2020. Playlist Wayne Krantz “High 70's" from Write Out Your Head (Abstract Logix) 00:00 Markus Reuter “Power Series" from Truce (Moonjune) 05:55 Gergo Borlai “Gary" from The Missing Song (Blue Canoe) 11:50 Richard Hallebeek “Sunset Sky" from Bumerang (Richie Rich) 17:46 Tigran Hamasyan “New Maps" from The Call Within (Nonesuch) 23:39 David Binney “Dolphins" from Aeriel (Mythology) 29:35 Gabriel Bulfon “Perihelion" from Exoplanets (Self Produced) 35:29 Miles Davis “Sanctuary" ...