{"id":44036,"date":"2018-12-21T13:24:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=44036"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:24:57","slug":"the-essential-advent-calendar-december-19-guitarist-markus-reuter-releases-first-christmas-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/12\/the-essential-advent-calendar-december-19-guitarist-markus-reuter-releases-first-christmas-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Advent Calendar: December 19 &#8211; Guitarist Markus Reuter Releases First Christmas Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Poly-disciplinary musician and touch guitarist Markus Reuter has just released his first Christmas album, &#8216;Winter Solstice&#8217; &#8211; a free, limited-availability-period recording of five traditional Christmas songs (each of which has been given Markus\u2019 distinctive loop\/solo\/soundscape treatment).<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44037\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/12\/the-essential-advent-calendar-december-19-guitarist-markus-reuter-releases-first-christmas-album\/markus-reuter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Markus-Reuter.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Markus Reuter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Markus-Reuter.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44037\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Markus-Reuter.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As with much of Markus\u2019 music, the pieces are accessible and enjoyable while concealing hidden depths. Beneath and behind Markus\u2019 soulful touch guitar renditions of the original melodies, billowing detailed soundscapes are built on re-examinations and explorations of the pitch series of each tune. Listeners can enjoy the simple snowfall, or choose to tunnel deeper into the ice kingdom. A parallel universe&#8230; strangely hypnotizing.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The album is available for free download from <a href=\"https:\/\/iapetus-store.com\/album\/winter-solstice-free-download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a> between 17th and 31st December 2018 (and is available long-term as a free 5.1. surround sound version from <a href=\"https:\/\/surroundmusic.one\/album\/winter-solstice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Surround Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find out more information about Markus Reuter online on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markusreuter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iapetus-media.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iapetus Media<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchguitars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Touch Guitars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poly-disciplinary musician and touch guitarist Markus Reuter has just released his first Christmas album, &#8216;Winter Solstice&#8217; &#8211; a free, limited-availability-period recording of five traditional Christmas songs (each of which has been given Markus\u2019 distinctive loop\/solo\/soundscape treatment).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3768,9],"tags":[481,470,17015,3938,18147,199,18307,144,77,18213,3787,4022],"class_list":["post-44036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-new-releases","tag-bandcamp","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-album","tag-essential-advent-calendar","tag-festive","tag-guitar","tag-markus-reuter","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-seasonal","tag-the-essential-advent-calendar","tag-winter-solstice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-bsg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85238,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2023\/12\/the-essential-advent-calendar-december-17-sia-and-endel-release-gimme-christmas-lofi-soundscape-on-all-major-streaming-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":44036,"position":0},"title":"The Essential Advent Calendar &#8211; 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