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Skiffelpappe - Poor Man's Sunflower

A skiffle album I recorded at the age of nineteen in Germany, released in 2011. 0:00 You're A Quack 2:09 Invisible Tambourine 5:02 I Like Trains (More Than People) 6:28 Construction Paper Breakdown 7:26 My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own 9:43 Love At Heart 10:45 White Wall Tuna Can 12:28 The Day That I Became A Man 14:09 Rekindle 16:11 Itty Bitty Munchkin “Skiffelpappe”, short for “The Cardboard Skiffle Band”, began as a three-piece street group around August 2010 with my friends David and Silvan Rincke in Aalen, Germany. The band took its name from an impromptu percussion set made of an old box and other junk that Silvan played at our first performance at the local park. Plans were made to record an album and head to Ireland to perform on street corners for a month. My band mates were ultimately unable to join me, so the resulting album, titled “Poor Man’s Sunflower” after the dandelions that grow in abundance in the German countryside, was essentially a solo album released under a pseudonym in the summer of 2011. My uncle Heiner Postler built numerous custom instruments for the project, including the “50/50 Bass”, so named because it had half the usual four strings and was tuned an octave higher than a regular bass, as well as a clever foot drum kit consisting of a wooden box used as a bass drum that stored a pedal operated tambourine. I played these foot drums along with harmonica, kazoo and a frankenstein ukulele that I built called the “Frankenuke” in Galway, Cork and Dublin. Unfortunately, much of what was used in this project has been lost over the years. The album’s master files were destroyed in an accident some time after I returned to California, and my last physical copy of the CD version of the album I had was destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire, along with the Frankenuke. The other instruments are with my family in Germany. What remains are the digital tracks uploaded in this video, as well as these photos I saved from old Facebook posts, which can be viewed here:   / dmyaha1buhr   The album itself still holds a soft place in my heart. From the dueling train whistle and kazoo solo in “I Like Trains (More Than People)” to the secular gospel of “Invisible Tambourine”, it’s a record made by a young man who had somehow made space for largely uninhibited creative expression in some otherwise pretty dark years, a testament to the ways in which music has served as a nurturing and uplifting practice ever since.