“Mr. No Regrets”
By Corey Dargel
Written, performed, and produced by Corey Dargel. Copyright ©2011 Automatic Heartbreak (ASCAP)
Corey Dargel is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-based composer and singer/songwriter. His 2010 double album, Someone Will Take Care of Me, is about hypochondria and voluntary amputation. Dargel is a Composer Fellow with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, and has created song cycles with the string quartet Ethel and the electric guitar quartet Dither.
Esopus 17 (Fall 2011)
Esopus CD #17: Fear Itself
After our readers submitted their most intense irrational fears for our fifth subscriber invitational, we invited 13 musicians to select one fear to use as inspiration for a new song for this issue’s CD. Some of the tracks convey these phobias with absolute gravity: For instance, Edinburgh-based band Meursault delivers a haunting and heartbreaking take on Wendy Cohen’s anxiety about dropping dead on the street and leaving loved ones behind (“No Knock at the Door”). But there are lighter approaches, too, like Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt’s “Spew,” a raucous number inspired by Dave Miranda’s fear of vomiting in public. Whether serious or comic, sad or buoyant, all of these wonderful songs prove that fear is as rich and potent a source of musical inspiration as any other human emotion.