Soul Coughing

Soul Coughing was an American alternative Rock-/Elektro-Band from New York. Although the band never was able to celebrate the big mainstream success, they always stood by its foundation in 1992 until its dissolution in 2000 in the favor of a music critic and a larger fan base could create in the Underground.

History

Mike Doughty, later the frontman of Soul Coughing, worked at the Knitting Factory, a New York music club, which had specialized in jazz and experimental music. Here he also met the future musicians of Soul Coughing know. He met Mark De Gli Antoni, who had just finished a degree in composition at the Mannes College of Music and concentrated on sampling. One day De Gli Antoni, Doughty CDs made ​​(including by Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Howlin 'Wolf and The Andrews Sisters), so he samplelte this. These samples, in conjunction with De Gli Antoni own compositions and Doughtys striking, semi- spoken, half- sung vocal lines formed the musical basis of Soul Coughing. Their first gig, the band had the name " M. Doughtys Soul Coughing " on June 15, 1992 in Knitting Factory. Another musician Sebastian Steinberg on bass and Yuval Gabay completed, who had worked with John Zorn, on drums, the band. In 1993, was to be read on a concert poster Soul Coughings "deep slacker jazz " as a heading. These ajar to The Who's " Maximum R & B" designation kept the band as a description of the style of music until its dissolution.

The band has been taken within one year of Slash Records, a sublabel of London Records, which distributed its plates on Warner Bros. in the U.S., under contract, where they released three albums: Ruby Vroom (1994 ), Irresistible Bliss (1996) and Oso el (1998). After the dissolution of volume appeared in 2002, yet the album Lust in Phaze - the best of Soul Coughing by Rhino Records.

Style

Soul Coughings style is a mixture of jazz, funk, hip hop and rock music, resulting in a concise stand-alone style emerged, the frontman Mike Doughty himself rewrote the neologism "deep slacker jazz ".

Discography

Albums

The respective singles are in bold.

  • Ruby Vroom (release date: September 27, 1994):
  • Irresistible Bliss (release date: July 9, 1996 ):
  • El Oso (release date: September 29, 1998):
  • Lust in Phaze - the best of Soul Coughing (release date: March 19, 2002):

Use of music in pop culture

Despite her - for the U.S. market - not too big commercial success (150,000 copies sold of the debut album and 250,000 of the successor Irresistible Bliss ) some songs were known to a wider audience. This stemmed from the fact that different filmmakers Soul Coughings used songs as film music:

  • Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago from the album Ruby Vroom is on the soundtrack for the movie " Tommy Boy - Through thick and thin" to hear (1995).
  • The movie " Batman & Robin " used the title The Bug (1997).
  • On the soundtrack to the movie " Spawn" is the title of A Plane Scraped It 's Belly On A Sooty Yellow Moon, a collaboration of Soul Coughing with the famous drum -and- bass producer Roni Size to hear (1997).
  • The song Rolling make it into the Betty Boop "music video " of the " Groovies " series from Cartoon Network, as well as on the soundtrack of the Australian film "Candy" (2006).
  • Circles was also seen in the " Groovies " series, as the background music for the Flinststones cartoon video.
  • Unmarked Helicopters appears on both the X-Files tie-in album " Songs in the Key of X" ( 1996), as well as in the episode " Max" the fourth season (1997). 16 Horses appeared in the same film the series ( 1998)
  • In a European commercial for the Ford Transit the title Disseminated be heard (2006).
  • Sugar free jazz can be heard in an episode of the U.S. series " Malcolm in the Middle ".
  • 2004 Circles was in the movie "Walking Tall - On your own " to hear. The FOX series " Undeclared " used the single in its first episode.
  • In the Playstation game " Gran Turismo 2 " stops the player Super Bon Bon.
  • In episode 16, season 5 of the series Dr. House the song is heard $ 300

The resolution and then

In March 2000, the band officially announced their resolution. Although the press release on their website http://soulcoughing.com of an amicable separation was talk, it seemed more problems under the individual members have given. Added to this was the former heroin addiction Doughtys Mike, who was no longer in contact with the other former members of the band after 2000. In addition, the individual artists wanted to devote her intense solo projects.

  • Mike Doughty is since the dissolution of the band as a solo artist on the go and has released several recordings: Skittish (LP, 2000)
  • Rockity Roll ( EP, 2003)
  • Skittish / Rockity Roll ( Re - release, 2004)
  • Haughty Melodic (LP, 2005)
  • Golden Delicious ( LP, 2008)
  • Yes and so yes (LP, 2011)
  • Mark De Gli Antoni devoted himself to composing film music, among others, Cherish and Marie & Bruce
  • Published in 1999, the LP Horse Tricks
  • Sebastian Steinberg worked, inter alia, with David Byrne, Neil Finn, William Shatner and Yerba Buena together and is also a member of ultraviolet ray.

Others

  • Namesake of the album Ruby Vroom was Ruby Froom, the daughter of the producer of the album. The Israeli-born Yuval Gabay delivered with his pronunciation of the name later album title.
  • The album title Irresistible Bliss is an allusion to Mike Doughtys favorite song from Prince Irresistible Bitch.
  • El Oso is Spanish and means " The Bear ". The name stems from a habit Sebastian Steinberg, who always wanted to have painted a bear on his setlist.
  • The band's name originates, according to Mark De Gli Antoni from a poem by Mike Doughtys in which it comes to Neil Young, who throws up in his bus. Since a friend Doughtys for " to vomit " had used the term " Soul Coughing " Doughty adapted it in his poem.
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