Soul Coughing, 1992-2000, was a New York-based band founded by vocalist and guitarist Mike Doughty(who billed himself at the time as 'M. Doughty'), a folk singer (he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiataand played around the school together), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn . Doughty put the band together from instrumentalists he met as they came through the club; he met sampler player Mark De Gli Antoni(recently graduated with a composition degree from Mannes College of Music) when they both participated in a performance of Zorn's "game piece" Cobra. This same ensemble also featured Jeff Buckley. Doughty brought a stack of CDs over to De Gli Antoni's house one afternoon and had him sample iconic riffs from Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Howlin' Wolf, and The Andrews Sisters, among others.
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Moon Sammy Lyrics
Soul Coughing
Moon sammy walks. across the floor. below the floor. there is a wall.
Behind the wall. there is a chair. moon sammy knows. the chair is there.
But thats ok, thats ok, you can do that--if youre wound up, full of tension,
Incoherent. your mouth is buttered with lies; you ask why, but you could
Call it enigmatic; all your thoughts about the chair are full of static.
Automatically your mind goes down the stairwell to the chair; your body
Says moon sammy, can you come back?
Strum it.
Moon sammy washes. in the sink. below the sink. there is a drain. the drain
Goes straight. into the sea. the sink itself. is porcelain.
Obsess yourself with causality. the information you hear is a loophole,
Technicality. behind every object is a mathematic; an obscure substance
Infused with a kinetic force, energy, an obscure conscience shoots a gun at
The feet the world dances.
Babylon, mystery, mother of harlots, and all these abominations of the
Earth, that sits on many waters, drunk with the blood of the martyrs of
Jesus.
And I wondered with great admiration.