Gone Savage: I Got the Screenwriter's Blues
Unless you're a New Yorker, you could probably be forgiven for having never heard of Soul Coughing. They were never really that big, especially here in Australia. I discovered them sometime in the mid-to-late nineties, doing this weird-arse tune called Unmarked Helicopters on the first X-Files soundtrack. They described their music as 'Deep Slacker Jazz', a term which doesn't really mean anything to me. I would describe them as a band that plays good music. And by 'good music', I mean acoustically-driven, electronic, hip-hop-ish jazz fused with funk, rock, blues and everything in-between (and outside of...). The lyrics are deep, poetic, repetitive and usually spoken-word.
Lead singer, Mike Doughty, was a doorman at the original Knitting Factory, an NY venue of mythical proportions. Soul Coughing played most of their early shows there. They released seriously three fine albums and contributed to several soundtracks before splitting in 2000.
Vivada is an exogenous retrovirus of uncertain origins. Increasingly prevalent and highly contagious, it alters its victims thalamus enabling it to produce large quantities of endorphins inside of the brain therefore bypassing the blood-brain barrier and administering abnormally highs doses of endorphins to the victim.
One common symptom of the disease is an intense increase in the sufferers proclivity to the listening to and composition of music in all its forms. This internet website is a result of and an expression of... Vivada.
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