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Corey Dargel is a composer, lyricist, and singer of songs that “smartly and impishly blur the boundaries between contemporary classical idioms and pop” (New York Times). His gentle assault on the pop idiom creates a tension that pervades his 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.
Dargel has been called “an innovator both challenging and catchy” (Time Out New York) and “an ironic pop icon… dangerously close to commercial viability” (Village Voice). Salon praises his songs’ “rococo ingenuity” and “sustained bursts of lyrical brilliance,” and according to Gramophone, he has “a compositional sense guaranteed to keep close listeners on their toes. Words and music are truly equal partners…”
Dargel’s critically acclaimed debut album, Less Famous Than You, is a collection of songs about falling in love with famous (or semi-famous) people. It was released on Use Your Teeth (London) in May 2006 and named one of the Top Ten Albums of 2006 by Time Out New York. His forthcoming album, Other People’s Love Songs, will feature the first fourteen custom-made love songs created through Dargel’s “Commission a Love Song” project, hailed by Toronto Globe and Mail’s Carl Wilson as “a neat, and profitable, rebuke to the self-expression model. Songwriters! Express other people’s feelings!”
Dargel has been called “an innovator both challenging and catchy” (Time Out New York) and “an ironic pop icon… dangerously close to commercial viability” (Village Voice). Salon praises his songs’ “rococo ingenuity” and “sustained bursts of lyrical brilliance,” and according to Gramophone, he has “a compositional sense guaranteed to keep close listeners on their toes. Words and music are truly equal partners…”
Dargel’s critically acclaimed debut album, Less Famous Than You, is a collection of songs about falling in love with famous (or semi-famous) people. It was released on Use Your Teeth (London) in May 2006 and named one of the Top Ten Albums of 2006 by Time Out New York. His forthcoming album, Other People’s Love Songs, will feature the first fourteen custom-made love songs created through Dargel’s “Commission a Love Song” project, hailed by Toronto Globe and Mail’s Carl Wilson as “a neat, and profitable, rebuke to the self-expression model. Songwriters! Express other people’s feelings!”
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12/09/2011 – Two Sides Sounding in Brooklyn, NY
28 Nov 2011 | from automaticheartbreak.com
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 8pm South Oxford Space, 138 South
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SIDES SOUNDING, CONTEMPORARY MUSIC VOICE AND PIANO DUO presents “A
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linernotesdanny added Corey Dargel to linernotesdanny’s library. December 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘12/09/2011 – Two Sides Sounding in Brooklyn, NY’. November 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘Interview and Exclusive Track on Minnesota Public Radio’. November 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘Review in the Star-Tribune’. November 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘New Song, “Mr. No Regrets,” Available in ESOPUS Magazine’. November 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘Spring 2012 Performances in Miami and New York City Coming Soon’. October 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘November 15 – December 31: In the Studio Recording a New Album’. October 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘Hold Yourself Together Live Recording Broadcast on Q2’. October 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘Q2 Live w/Mos Def and Brooklyn Philharmonic’. October 2011
- Corey Dargel posted a news item ‘October 14, 2011: with accordionist Nathan Koci and MIVOS Quartet, Brooklyn, NY’. September 2011
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