why we love this
For rainy Sunday mornings and rooftop summer sunsets, the album pulls you into a vivid city dream, offering an impressionistic view of the vivacity that unfolds around us daily. It is a beautiful collection of memories—tokens of what was and what continues to beat on.
about the record
The debut record by pianist, poet, and radio producer Phil Smith. Turning his attention away from BBC feature-making and his cult Jazz-Disjunction NTS show, Phil offers us the diaristic, heartfelt, and homespun Tagebuch.
Tagebuch is a collection of musical journal entries, spanning Phil's time living in Berlin from 2013 to 2017. Starting with sweetly tumbling piano, Phil soon flexes his storytelling chops, shifting from scene to scene via voice, folk-jazz arrangements, musique concrète, and the occasional techno-synth chugger.
Don't be fooled by Tagebuch's back-of-the-envelope charm—this is an expertly crafted radio biopic without words, where the minutiae of life are percolated through layers of accordion, U-Bahn harmonics, and beer foam. A talented cast of guests and friends, notably multi-instrumentalist Zac Gvi, adds an unassuming weight and emotional muscle to this deeply personal material.
- 1 - Januaries (Am Anfang) 1:49
- 2 - To the Train 3:51
- 3 - At Least We Got to Sit on the Ground (Parts 1 & 2) 4:14
- 4 - Made / Found (For C) 7:51
- 5 - Imperfect / Conditional 2:05
- 6 - Januaries (Am Fenster) 1:25
- 7 - She Translates 3:27
- 8 - Abwaschen 1:33
- 9 - Improvisation on Our City (For Lyra) 3:53
- 10 - Brücke 2:50
- 11 - Stoopy 4:22
- 12 - Prelude to the Hinterhof (For LG) 3:40
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- 1 - Januaries (Am Anfang) 1:49
- 2 - To the Train 3:51
- 3 - At Least We Got to Sit on the Ground (Parts 1 & 2) 4:14
- 4 - Made / Found (For C) 7:51
- 5 - Imperfect / Conditional 2:05
- 6 - Januaries (Am Fenster) 1:25
- 7 - She Translates 3:27
- 8 - Abwaschen 1:33
- 9 - Improvisation on Our City (For Lyra) 3:53
- 10 - Brücke 2:50
- 11 - Stoopy 4:22
- 12 - Prelude to the Hinterhof (For LG) 3:40
why we love this
For rainy Sunday mornings and rooftop summer sunsets, the album pulls you into a vivid city dream, offering an impressionistic view of the vivacity that unfolds around us daily. It is a beautiful collection of memories—tokens of what was and what continues to beat on.
about the record
The debut record by pianist, poet, and radio producer Phil Smith. Turning his attention away from BBC feature-making and his cult Jazz-Disjunction NTS show, Phil offers us the diaristic, heartfelt, and homespun Tagebuch.
Tagebuch is a collection of musical journal entries, spanning Phil's time living in Berlin from 2013 to 2017. Starting with sweetly tumbling piano, Phil soon flexes his storytelling chops, shifting from scene to scene via voice, folk-jazz arrangements, musique concrète, and the occasional techno-synth chugger.
Don't be fooled by Tagebuch's back-of-the-envelope charm—this is an expertly crafted radio biopic without words, where the minutiae of life are percolated through layers of accordion, U-Bahn harmonics, and beer foam. A talented cast of guests and friends, notably multi-instrumentalist Zac Gvi, adds an unassuming weight and emotional muscle to this deeply personal material.
