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Artist
Phil Tagliere
7+ albums
about
Los Angeles based singer/ songwriter/ guitarist Phil Tagliere formed the pop/rock band Gingersol with his brother Steve in 1994. The band was started with the intent of delivering inspired pop songs with an urgent high energy directness. Gingersol did its time in the clubs of southern California and in late 1995 released a six song EP titled Extended Play. The EP was well received, garnering dozens of glowing reviews from around the world as well as respectable sales for an independent release. In the years that followed, the band made little commercial progress due to an ever changing line up and several disastrous recording experiences. Gingersol evolved into an "on again/off again" situation and grew steadily more frustrating for Steve and Phil. Steve Tagliere put out a solo album in 1999 before reconstituting Gingersol and releasing two fine discs. After laying low for a while, Phil finally produced his solo debut in 2002, which confirms that the Taglieres are a talented musical family. As its title -- Slow -- suggests, the music here moves at a leisurely pace. Strumming an acoustic guitar, Phil Tagliere performs gentle, quietly sung songs. Initially, the disc feels too modest and demure, but Tagliere's subtly melodic music quickly proves to be quite engaging. He projects a fragile quality, much like Elliott Smith's music; however Smith typically takes his tunes into dark, depressive corners, while Tagliere lets a bit of sunlight into his melancholic bedroom folk-p
