Markus Reuter

Markus Reuter is a German musician, composer and record producer, specialising in touch guitar playing and loop music. Recently he has expanded his activities by moving into instrument design.

Biography

Initially trained as a guitarist, Reuter subsequently studied Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft and learned to play the Chapman Stick, later moving onto the Warr Guitar. He now favours the U8 Touch Guitar, which he co-designed with Texan luthier Ed Reynolds.

Reuter has released several solo recordings and worked extensively with other musicians. He is one of the two core members of the electronic music duo Centrozoon (alongside Bernhard Wöstheinrich), is half of the duo Tuner (with King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto) and was also a member of Europa String Choir. Reuter has collaborated with Ian Boddy, Robert Rich, No-Man singer Tim Bowness (both in and out of Centrozoon), and producer Lee Fletcher amongst many others.

Besides his own material, Reuter has produced records for Yoshi Hampl, UMA, Tovah, The Season Standard, Skin Diary, Chrysta Bell and The Redundant Rocker. He served as producer for the Toyah Willcox-related project This Fragile Moment, in which he was also one of the main contributing musicians.

Discography

solo recordings

• Taster (1997)
• Containment (1998)
• Digitalis (2001)
• The Longest in Terms of Being (2001)
• Older Than God (2003)
• Trepanation (2006)
• Todmorden 513 (2011)

with centrozoon

• Blast (2000 - remastered version with bonus track issued 2008)
• Sun Lounge Debris (2001)
• The Cult of: Bibbiboo (2002)
• The Scent Of Crash And Burn (2003)
• Never Trust the Way You Are (2004)
• Angel Liquor (2006)
• Never Trust the Things They Do (2006)
• Lovefield (2007)

with Europa String Choir

• Lemon Crash (2000)
• Marching Ants (2004)

with This Fragile Moment

• This Fragile Moment (2009)

with Tuner

• Totem (2005, remaster 2008)
• Pole (2007)
• Müüt (2008)
• ZWAR (2009)

Dagobert Böhm, Zoltan Lantos, Markus Reuter

• String Unit (2000)

Markus Reuter & Ian Boddy

• Distant Rituals (1999)
• Pure (2003)
• Dervish (2009)

Markus Reuter & ['ramp]

• Ceasing to Exist (2007)

Markus Reuter & Robert Rich

• Eleven Questions (2007)

Markus Reuter feat. Sha

• 0000 (2011)

Guest appearances

• Dago, Sounds for a Blue Planet (2001 - credited as performer)
• Tim Bowness, My Hotel Year (2004 - plays touch guitar on and co-wrote "The Me I Knew" and "I Once Loved You")
• Kuha, Telekineettinen Testilaboratorio (2005 - plays touch guitar)
• Star of Ash, The Thread (2008 - arranger, plays touch guitar)
• Scott McGill, Percy Jones, Ritchie DeCarlo (2010 - plays touch guitar)
• Star of Ash, Lakhesis (2010 - arranger, plays touch guitar)
• Herd of Instinct (2011 - plays touch guitar and loops on "Anamnesis" and "Possession")

Work as producer

• UMA, Civitas Soli (2008)
• Tovah, Escapologist (2008 - producer/arranger)
• The Season Standard, Squeeze Me Ahead Of Line (2008)
• This Fragile Moment, This Fragile Moment (2009)
• The Redundant Rocker, Heart (2009)
• Yoshi Hampl, Water Dealer (2009)
• Skin Diary, Skin Diary (2010)
• Moonbound, Peak Of Eternal Light (2010 - co-producer)
• Chrysta Bell, Strange Darling (unreleased)
• Lake Cisco, Permanent Transient (2011)

External links

• Markus Reuter homepage
• Interview at AllAboutJazz website