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The Rhythm Method

by Coupler

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STRICTLY BANGERS
Sometime in the last few years while touring our live score for Yasujirō Ozu’s DRAGNET GIRL the members of Coupler ruminated on a future release. We’d recently done a handful of non-film shows, sometimes as a duo, sometimes as a trio, that we referred to as our “strictly bangers” sets. They were typically uptempo four-on-the-floor affairs. We talked about making a record in this vein.

For various reasons that full-length never came to be. But during quarantine I’ve had occasion to revisit this idea. Taking some incomplete tracks we’d intended to be part of that possible album I hammered them into this new, abbreviated package. “The Rhythm Method” is meant to be narrowly-focused and will be the first in a series of EPs. Rather than wrestle with a sizable amount of accumulated music and try to form it into what could become a sprawling and potentially incoherent mess I thought it best to prune each of the constituent parts into something more approachable. In this case, though some of the music is different, I was hoping to capture the spirit of those “strictly bangers” sets. I hope I got close.
-- Ryan

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released September 4, 2020

The Technocrat

Written and produced by Rollum Haas and Ryan Norris
Rollum Haas - drum and bass programming, vocal editing
Ryan Norris - synthesis, drum programming, vocal triggering


Cessation (of Gene Flow)

Written and produced by Ryan Norris
Ryan Norris - all programming and synthesis


The Rhythm Method

Written and produced by Rodrigo Avendaño and Ryan Norris
Rodrigo Avendaño - drum programming
Ryan Norris - synthesis, drum programming


Recorded at Sweetblood Sound, Nashville and Sweetblood Sound Mid-Coast, Chicago

Edited, mixed and mastered by Ryan Norris at Sweetblood Sound Mid-Coast and Maestro-Matic, Chicago

Cover design and layout by Rob Patterson

Thank you Michael Eades, Katie Haas, Michael Hilger, Mia Krout, Ben Marcantel, Rob Patterson, Garry Velletri, Mary Alice Richter


Ryan Norris published by Sounding Brass Music (ASCAP), administered by Pacific Electric Music Publishing/Gilda Music 2020
Rollum Haas - BMI
Rodrigo Avendaño - BMI

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Coupler Chicago, Illinois

Started in 2012, Coupler is the pseudonym of Ryan Norris and a rotating cast of collaborators; Rodrigo Avendano, Rollum Haas and Michael Hilger among them. It's membership has occasionally swollen to eight but its core is Norris and a maelstrom of ideas. ... more

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