Songs by Corey Dargel
Sunday, November 9 - 8 pm
Tickets : $7
Reservations : 212 - 592 - 4644

an evening of semiotic songs written and performed by Corey Dargel
based on the writings of Roland Barthes
mostly his anomalously amorous work A Lover's Discourse

for vocals, keyboards, drum machines, powerbook G4, and various auxiliary sound sources

" A postmodernist looking at the pop song from the outside, he turns irony upside down." -Kyle Gann, Village Voice

" The perfect reconciliation between pop and the avant-garde, minimalism and modernism, Dargel’s songs are misleading in their apparent simplicity." - Amanda MacBlane, New York Press

"...a most interesting combination of psychotherapy and music" - Paul Cox, Listening Room, Oberlin Online

COREY DARGEL writes and performs original songs karaoke style. "[H]is songs' witty lyrics over sweetly synthesized accompaniments"* have been called "the perfect reconciliation between pop and the avant-garde, minimalism and modernism."** Music critic Kyle Gann writes of his performance: "A postmodernist looking at the pop song from the outside, he turns irony upside down. Rather than subvert a sincere surface message, he wore all his self-conscious distancing on his sleeve, and you began to suspect that he rather heartbreakingly meant what he sang."*

Dargel has collaborated with a variety of influential artists including Eve Beglarian, Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, and K. Terumi Shorb; and he has written music for theater pieces with Tangerine Arts Group, NYC FUSE, Loudmouth Collective, and the Laboratory Theater, of which he is a founding member. He is presently composing concert pieces for pianist Kathleen Supové and flutist Margaret Lancaster to be premiered in 2004.

*Kyle Gann, The Village Voice, August 10-16, 2002
**Amanda MacBlane, New York Press, Volume 16, Issue 36