OK It’s Not OK (2015)
Buy on iTunes and eMusic and Amazon and BandCamp Words and Music by Corey Dargel New Amsterdam Records is proud to announce OK It’s Not OK, the fourth studio album from “baroquely unclassifiable” (The New Yorker) composer and “prince of postclassical song” (Time Out New York) Corey Dargel. The album will be released on January […]
“There’s Nothing There” Music Video with Doug Fitch
PopMatters and OUT Magazine have premiered Corey Dargel’s and Doug Fitch’s music video of 2015’s “There’s Nothing There,” a song from Corey’s new album OK It’s Not OK (New Amsterdam Records) [Corey Dargel, vocals and drum machines; James Moore, electric guitar; Eleonore Oppenheim, electric bass; and Wil Smith, keyboards; words and music by Corey Dargel © 2015 Automatic […]
Corey Dargel’s Work Featured in Two Music History Textbooks
Mark Evan Bonds is the author of A History of Music in Western Culture and Listen to This. He is also the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A History of Music in Western Culture is the more academic of the two books. It is written for […]
John Halle’s “Outrages & Interludes” Features Corey Dargel as a Performer
Corey is featured as narrator and vocalist in two tracks, “Full Spectrum Dominance” and “Homage,” from John Halle’s album Outrages & Interludes (Purchase/Listen/Read More at Innova). Here is a track listing followed by more info about the album and John Halle: 1. PPS-23 (Le Train Bleu, Lucy Dhegrae soprano) 2. Full Spectrum Dominance (Ensemble IOU, […]
AUDIO: Steve Parker Performs “Everyone But Jones”
Steve Parker, trombone and live delay; Corey Dargel, composer and playback In 1978, after the Jonestown mass suicide, investigators discovered a cassette tape that the cult members recorded as they were preparing to die. Much of this tape consists of Jim Jones’s preaching, but there are also other people’s testimonies, instructions, microphone noises, strange jump-cut […]
Past Performances
06/14/2015 at 2pm Last Words from Texas performed at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Event Description: Inspired by the exhibition Wildly Strange: The Photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, this installment of SoundSpace features output by musicians who worked outside the mainstream. Highlighting insurance salesmen, soldiers, scientists, architects, and autodidacts, this program will examine […]
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 Download the Complete Album (zip) Corey Dargel does vocals, all instruments, and […]
