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.
The EP is being arranged (by Corey) for the amplified chamber ensemble Newspeak who will premiere the arrangements in the fall of 2012. The amazing soprano Mellissa Hughes will be the singer.
Also, the ensemble Le Train Bleu has commissioned a sequel, called, appropriately enough, More Last Words from Texas, which they will premiere on April 20th, 2012, at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. It is scored for chamber orchestra, with Corey singing.
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Last Words from Texas
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Corey Dargel does words, music, vocals, all instruments, and production
©2011 Automatic Heartbreak (ASCAP)
1. Date of Execution May 13 2010
2. Date of Execution May 04 2006
3. Date of Execution December 15 1993
4. Date of Execution February 11 2004
5. Date of Execution July 11 2006
6. Date of Execution October 28 1997
7. Date of Execution May 19 2010
8. Date of Execution June 26 2007
Every Day Is the Same Day
EP featuring violinist Cornelius Dufallo
Download all three songs in one zip file (MP3 files @320 kbps)
“a set of spare, earnest and—dare we say it—charming songs about depression” -Time Out New York
“Corey Dargel’s… involved, delicately refined instrumental writing…is offset by his arch, cabaret-tinged vocal style and the quirkiness of his texts…and, typically, he ma[kes] the grisly seem oddly charming.” -New York Times
“Dargel’s fierce ruminations on death are accompanied by the ecstatic violin loops of Cornelius Dufallo, a truly wonderful eight minutes of music. It’s Kafka Fragments for the SoHo crowd.” -Seated Ovation
“a bite-sized work of art that will get lodged in your brain for the next year” -Daniel Stephen Johnson
Corey Dargel’s Every Day Is the Same Day — scored for voice, violin, and digital looping, and performed by Dargel and Cornelius Dufallo — presents worst-case scenarios as possible solutions for boredom and loneliness. This free EP represents the beginning of what will eventually be an evening-length song cycle about clinical depression (yay! & cue drum machines!).
01. On This Date Every Year (3’16″)
02. You Can Say a Prayer (2’53″)
03. The Opposite of Love (3’01″)
Here’s a stream of “The Opposite of Love:”
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Download all three songs in one zip file (MP3 files @320 kbps)
Fingers (video) from REMOVABLE PARTS
featuring Corey Dargel and Kathleen Supové
directed by Emma Griffin
video by Kamala Sankaram
available on Corey Dargel’s album Someone Will Take Care of Me
All Other Sounds (video) from OTHER PEOPLE’S LOVE SONGS
This is a music video, directed by Oleg Dubson
The song is from Corey’s album, Other People’s Love Songs.
Big Lake (video)
“Big Lake” – a film by Tomas Little with dance by Scott Heron and music by Corey Dargel
A Christmas Song for Time Out New York
The magazine Time Out New York asked Corey to write a Christmas song for their holiday issue. He came up with the following:
Keep Repeating Those Words
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