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hello... my name is Erik, i'm the band on the couch... i was born in Florida in 1966 and now live in the wilds of western Maine, thus fulfilling one of my lifedreams... having had a nagging guitar habit on and off throughout my life, i finally began recording stuff about two years ago... the timing seemed right, two kids, two jobs... why not go crazy staying up all night listening to loops... so here we are... music is total therapy for me, and sharing it with my children is a joy beyond words... i started recording my songs as a kind of stretching soundtrack, yoga music as it were... slow and steady, like a heartbeat at rest, which as a parent IS my quest... i guess i approach my music like painting... i never intend to play these again, no, that ain't me babe, i won't be electrifying concertgoers with my magic axe anytime soon... they're my simple little collections of spilt sound, which give me a great deal of peace and delight... i hope they do the same for you...the guiding forces... my lovely wife, my now 3 wonderful children, music, surfing, cross country skiing, mtn. biking, gardening and reading...thanks for checking it out... peace and love, erik...here are some videos i've made, and some couch faves as well... good visuals...i love the ocean...
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Member Since: 5/23/2005
Band Website: daberhashery.blogspot.com/
Band Members: well it's just me... and the couch obviously... children are drawn to the couch and the neato pedals and gadgets that reside under it's belly... during the daylight hours, said children enjoy turning all the pedals knobs to eleven, and nighttime is heralded by the spilling of blood from my eardrums... but i'm learning... we're all just playing in the band, jam on...
Influences: gonna try to limit it to ten or so, since we all know lists such as this can go on forever... these are my pillars as it were...The Church and all their resplendent solo endeavors, Neil Young, Augustus Pablo, Bill Laswell, Cocteau Twins, George Harrison... and the Beatles too... The Waterboys, The Clash, The Grateful Dead, Lee Scratch Perry...that took some soul searching... ten more off the top of me head...DJ Spooky, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, Midnight Oil, T. Rex, The Cure, Zappa, Dexter Gordon, Pavement, Jeff Buckley, Yo La Tengo.... that makes eleven i see... it does go on forever don't you know... many fantastic colors.... hmmm, speaking of influences, have a hit of this........and then there's David Sylvian, like a cloud... Steel Cathedrals, pts. 1 & 2you know, Andy Goldsworthy is a beautiful man... i love playing guitar along with Rivers and Tides... here's a bit...skateboarding as art? amaze yourself all over again...the concrete canvas...
Sounds Like: the ocean as heard from a surfboard... in motion and at rest... floating.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Tommy

file under "not to be a bummer or anything, but"a bitta backround on the new sounds coming from the Couch...all these new tracks were recorded this spring while watching the early,but not unexpected, ...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:58:00 PST

many thanks to Alan Watts...

i have his "why not now" album on vinyl, and really got into it this fall...was playing it in the warehouse and used my wee digital recorder to snag select bits whilst i manipulated the turntable in a...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:09:00 PST

song of summer...

as i wait for a for some waves worth driving 70 miles for, here's a woozy couch meditation on carefree afternoon/evening summertime surfs...oh, for those evening glass offs where there sky and th...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:17:00 PST

new songs for May Day and beyond...

new songs, new moods, new moons and new meds... nah, same old meds... but new songs nonetheless... throbble and star reduction therapy are new arrivals... throbble may be the happiest sounding li...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Mon, 01 May 2006 06:09:00 PST

a sense of beelogging...

so i made meself another digital persona... daberhasher's the name, picture bloggings the game... i chuck in some written text too from time to time, but it's said a picture is worth a thousand words,...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:22:00 PST

new songs in February

attrition... every November, thoughts of World War 1 flood my head... maybe the landscape of late fall lends itself to such imaginings, maybe there's something more... this is a manifestatio...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:30:00 PST

for my beloved Honeysmoke...

towards the end of November 2004,after 15 years, i lost my dog Berkeley, aka Honeysmoke... we traveled all over together, and he was much loved by all who met him... a wonderful dog with our chil...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:30:00 PST

the words, they ain't mine...

i'm extremely honored to be able to post the song "sinking up" with the blessings of Steve Kilbey... i found the poem "Narcosis and More" on the inner sleeve of his album of the same name and it immed...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:14:00 PST

new songs synopsis...

21620... an admittedly rambling mess... recorded over a couple of weeks whilst trying to extricate myself from financial ruin... again... it's a snapshot of me as an admittedly rambling mess, an...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:31:00 PST

my name is erik and i'm a music junkie...

i'd like to start by saying thank you to all who have added me in my first days here... the idea of what is going on here is just starting to sink in... i'm re-recording my stuff with a new sound card...
Posted by the corduroy couch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST