Coupler GIFTS FROM THE EBB TIDE (SEA COLORED VINYL) Vinyl Record

Coupler is less a band than a creative organization. Founded in 2011 by Lambchop veteran Ryan Norris, its core is Norris along with Rodrigo Avendaño and Rollum Haas though its membership has at points swelled to as many as eight. At its root the project is an exercise in mutual cooperation of creative individuals and is an exploration of the intersections of man and machine, live and recorded, composed and improvised, stasis and flux.

Their release "Gifts from the Ebb Tide" on YK Records, sits at the center of several records that were gestating concurrently and shares DNA with each of them: HeCTAs The Diet, Lambchops FLOTUS, and Couplers Blue Room Sessions. Like Blue Room Sessions, Gifts from the Ebb Tide marks a point where Coupler began its drift from a solo project to something more collaborative, a drift that continues.