The Tinklers - Saplings - Vinyl Album
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal
Shimmy Disc
Tiny hole in jacket
The Tinklers are the duo of Charles Brohawn and Chris Mason, two Baltimore-based multimedia artists whose musical pursuits place them squarely in the Half Japanese tradition of deliberate artlessness, though with an often more accessible, rather childlike playfulness.

Although the first Tinklers album did not come out until 1990, the roots of the band are in the mid-'70s performance art scene in their native Baltimore. Charles Brohawn was a painting and sculpture student at the Maryland Institute College of Art when he met Chris Mason, a Minnesota native who had moved to Maryland to study poetry in the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University. At that time, the leading light of the Baltimore avant-garde music scene was Jad Fair's Half Japanese, a duo that Brohawn in particular found immensely influential. (Mason was more interested in the theories of John Cage at the time.) Brohawn and Mason formed the Tinklers in 1977 as a four-piece noise rock band with a rhythm section, but by 1979, they were, like Half Japanese, a two-guitar duo.


Track Listing
Trees Like to Rot in the Forest (3:09)
I Got to Be Patient (1:59)
One Meatball (2:39)
Pow (:20)
Good Dodo Bird and the Calavaria Tree (2:32)
Chugga-Chugga (:55)
The Future (2:18)
Zoom (:25)
Around to Maryanne's (3:14)
HMM (:30)
Quack Quack Beep Beep (:51)
Waah (:27)
Dinosaurs Are Better (2:19)
What It Wags (2:44)
Lucky in Love (4:39)
Zone Fare (2:57)
Cheesewolf (2:28)
Allergic to Everything (2:40)
Come on Down to the Beach (2:52)
Kid With a Curved Spine (1:57)
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