composer, singer, songwriter

AUDIO: Last Words from Texas

Eight songs setting to music the last statements (verbatim) of executed offenders put to death by the state of Texas. This 18-minute EP was released as a free download on May 1st, 2011, as part of a New York Times profile of Corey

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Corey Dargel does vocals, all instruments, and production
music ©2011 Automatic Heartbreak (ASCAP), text taken from the public record

2 Responses to “AUDIO: Last Words from Texas”

  1. Rob Haskins | What Makes New Classical Music Classical? says:
    November 8, 2014 at 5:18 pm

    […] durable pieces—charming, maybe a bit profound, and more instantly understood—like Dargel’s Last Words from Texas, which I may well continue to explore, or Sage the Gemini’s “Red Nose,” which I probably […]

  2. Can Music (Still) Be Critical? | says:
    February 3, 2015 at 9:15 am

    […] intervention can also be enacted at other points in the ideal music situation. An example is Corey Dargel’s Last Words from Texas (2011).[46] The eight songs on this EP appear, to all intents and purposes, like little synth-pop […]