Time for a new blog from the workshop. This is where all our instruments are manufactured. Pictures taken by Angela Fischer.

New model AU8 Deluxe for public release in 2015. Top of the line hand-made hollow-body touch guitar with magnetic and piezo pickups and custom electronics, bridge and tailpiece.

U8 Deluxe with high-gloss transparent white finish. Photos by Michaela Fessel. [Show as slideshow]

It is time to send a blog from the workshop. Wood choices All our Touch Guitars® U8, U10 and U8 Deluxe models are made of premium quality mahagony wood. With the AU8 model that we developed in 2014 we set the value on local woods. The result was so amazing that we decided to offer different wood choices also for […]

Dean Pascarella is a multi instrumentalist from NY. He currently plays with ex Stick Men Michael Bernier as well as recording his own solo album “Running With Scissors” available on Bandcamp. He is looking forward to adding his U8 to his future recordings and concerts. Bandcamp: https://deanpascarella.bandcamp.com/releases Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dean.pascarella

As some of you might know the Touch Guitars® had been developed by Markus Reuter and Ed Reynolds in 2008. The first run of Touch Guitars® was also built by Ed Reynolds. Since this time we constantly searched for the best luthier to build our high quality instruments in Europe. We finally discovered a small workshop in Innsbruck, Austria, led […]

GL5 by glistening leotard released April 16, 2016 All songs written and performed by glistening leotard in 2015 jessica näser: vocals andrej henze: guitar ralf gemein: guitar chris herb: touch guitar arthur krol: drums guest performances: violin on restless: leonie ziegner saxophone on green: klaus theißen additional touch guitar on skittish: matt tate synthesizer on skittish: alexander dowerk and chris […]

This album is the companion to DiM13NSiON’s (pronounced Dimension Thirteen) Imagur, their first album. Both released in the same year, the duo planned those 2 albums together. They are linked in many ways but are mirrors to each other, Imagur and Rugami. Rugami by DiM13NSiON Where Imagur was dark and contemplating human machinery and our effect on the world, Rugami […]

Technically sophisticated progressive-rock meets a heavy, sludgy and organic sound, which is – due to a focus on catchy harmony-vocals – still plausible despite dark complexity.

Jaanus Lee Damsgard is a Minneapolis based collaborative musician, playing live in the Midwest intermittently since 1992.

Victor Vos is a musician from Haarlem, The Netherlands. Although mostly known for his fretless bassplaying in, for instance, Yoghurt and Cityzap, in recent years he has applied himself specifically to fullrange tapguitar.

Matt Tate is a Chicago-based musician of 25 years and principally self-taught.

MÖBIUS – that’s Volker Schuhmacher (E-Guitar + Synths), Michael Koch (U-10 Touchguitar) & Andreas Fuchs (Drums). The bands current release ANGRIFF DER VINTAGEIANER (Attack of the Vintage People) is about the past, the present and a possible future of musical life – a kind of audio drama with a lot of music inside and surely a fine portion of humor. […]

After only 4 months of playing together, DiM13NSiON (pronounced Dimension Thirteen) decided to put out a record of their first experimentation.

Cédric Theys is a French musician and producer currently living in Austin TX.

All upcoming live-shows of their World Tour 2015