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The Tinklers – Saplings – Cassette
Saplings is an album by the band The Tinklers, an alternative rock and folk group known for their eclectic and often whimsical music. The Tinklers’ music is characterized by its playful and unconventional approach to songwriting and performance.
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.
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Shimmy Disc Records
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Track Listing
Trees Like to Rot in the Forest
I Got to Be Patient
One Meatball
Pow
Good Dodo Bird and the Calavaria Tree
Chugga-Chugga
The Future
Zoom
Around to Maryanne’s
HMM
Quack Quack Beep Beep
Waah
Dinosaurs Are Better
What It Wags
Lucky in Love
Zone Fare
Cheesewolf
Allergic to Everything
Come on Down to the Beach
Kid With a Curved Spine
Paul Bunyon
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