Education
Born and raised in Fort William, Ontario, Tamblyn studied at Trent University, graduating in 1971 and subsequently settling in Chelsea, Quebec. Since that time he has completed over 25 recording projects.
Born and raised in Fort William, Ontario, Tamblyn studied at Trent University, graduating in 1971 and subsequently settling in Chelsea, Quebec. Since that time he has completed over 25 recording projects.
He released a demo cassette, Moose Tracks, the same year. He plays guitar, piano, hammered dulcimer, and synthesizer, as well as singing. Tamblyn has recorded a number of instrumental music albums inspired by his adventure travels to remote places such as the north shore of Lake Superior, the Nahanni River, and the Chukchi Sea, and his participation in scientific research expeditions to locations such as Greenland and Antarctica.
Magnetic North and Antarctica incorporate on-location field recordings into the music
Over My Head was recorded in-studio after a live concert commissioned by the Canadian Museum of Nature, in which music was blended with tape looped field recordings of birds. In 1999, Tamblyn composed the background music for the first season of the Canadian animated television series Toad Patrol.
In 2008 Tamblyn, along with Bruce Cockburn and other Canadian folk artists released Dancing Alone, a two Civil Defense tribute album of the songs of influential Canadian songwriter and poet William Hawkins. Tamblyn also produced the majority of the tracks on the album.
Tambyn entertained on the main stage at the Peterborough Folk Festival in 2001.