Someone Will Take Care of Me
Corey’s third album, Someone Will Take Care of Me, will be released by New Amsterdam Records on May 25, 2010. The album is a double-CD set of Corey’s critically acclaimed music-theater pieces, “Removable Parts” and “Thirteen Near-Death Experiences.” The music is performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), David T. Little (drums), and Kathleen Supové (piano).
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Other People’s Love Songs
Other People’s Love Songs is based on an earnest and sentimental concept: All thirteen songs were commissioned by individuals as gifts to their significant others. Corey Dargel – composer, lyricist, and singer – interviewed the couples and learned all about their histories, personalities, quirks, private jokes, and emotional lives. He spun this tender data into music and lyrics that encompass a wide range of feelings. The real-life subjects of these songs range from celebrities to the “couple next door.” Newlyweds, long marrieds, gay couples, siblings, daughters, mothers, and others stepped forward to commission these songs. At times, the results are almost voyeuristic in their intimacy.
Listen/Purchase
- Naxos Direct (physical)
- Amazon (physical/virtual)
- eMusic (virtual)
- iTunes (virtual)
Press Coverage
Listen to NPR’s Weekend Edition segment on Other People’s Love Songs.
Time Out New York interview (issue 682, october 23-29, 2008)
Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane interview (mp3)
“Dargel play[s] the role of a sardonic-hipster Cyrano, translating his patrons’ tangled and intense feelings into artful, sophisticated pop songs… merg[ing] the dreamy synth-pop of The Postal Service – cooing female background vocals and quietly sputtering percussion and all – with Dargel’s slyly romantic lyrics.” – 17 dots
“invigorating, innovative but immediately approachable… [with] an unguarded quirkiness and (more…)
Less Famous Than You
Corey’s debut solo album released in May, 2006, on Use Your Teeth records (London).
New York based composer/performer Corey Dargel releases Less Famous Than You, a collection of songs about falling in love with famous (or semi-famous) people.
Trained at the renowned Oberlin Conservatory, Dargel creates deceptively simple and achingly vulnerable art-pop. Even though it’s not new for a classical musician to embrace the use of a laptop, drum machines, and synthesizers, it is rare for one to embrace the pop song with such unabashed intensity.
Dargel’s gentle assault on the pop idiom creates a tension which pervades the music: Deadpan and detached vocals reveal heartbreaking intimacies, awkward and obtrusive drum patterns struggle against fragile harmonies, vocals and music uneasily opposing each other as songs stumble to their ends.
Emotional and intelligent, Less (more…)
