Artist description New music that ranges from Jazz, Rock, various world music idioms, Hip-Hop, Country, Spaghetti Western and other film music genres, Space Age Bachelor Pad to various 20th Century Classical and Avant-Garde styles. The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra fuses these sounds so that the result is something between a pop song, film score, Jazz improvisation, cartoon soundtrack and an orchestral suite.

Music Style Irreverent JazzRockCountry World Avant-garde Classical Electronic Eclecticism

Musical Influences Frank Zappa, John Zorn, The Residents

Similar Artists Frank Zappa, John Zorn, The Residents

Artist History EVOLUTION In 1997, Jimbo, distant relative of Bozo the Clown and manic depressive piano virtuoso, founded the New Music ensemble The Bastard Children of Bozo in a little studio apartment in New York City. Personnel consisted mostly of members from the neighborhood drug clinic, ex-convicts and other non-professional musicians. Due to the size of the group, performances were infrequent and mostly at public schools. Paul Minotto was hired as Assistant Director. The group got tighter and they played at the after-hours club Save the Robots. Various celebrities stopped in. One night, Tony Clifton, famous New York Talent Agent, heard them and offered to be their manager. Three days later, Clifton was hit by a taxicab and died. At this time, the corporation who owns the BOZO trademark threatened to sue Jimbo if he continued to use the name Bozo professionally. Due to stress and other personal problems, Jimbo resigned and The Bastard Children of Bozo break up. REVOLUTION Moving to New Jersey and assuming the role of Artistic Director, Paul Minotto reformed the group as the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra. The personnel now consist of suburbanites with full time jobs as a butcher, baker, mortician, housewife, fireman, secretary, postman, hair dresser, etc…and computers. "In addition to the strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion, computers are used to balance the sound and add another dimension of extra-musical ideas," explained Minotto. " One composition has garbage trucks, another has a Ginsu knife commercial under water and another has 200 Tibetan monks transposed 4 octaves higher sounding like chanting chipmunks." Performance attire is the traditional black dress or tuxedo but everyone wears a mask, usually clown makeup, though Bill Clinton or Bart Simpson can sometimes be found in the violin section.

Group Members Paul Minotto and others

Instruments A chamber orchestra augmented with electric guitar, electric piano, various ethnic percussion, Pipa, synthesizers, pedal steel guitar, kazoo, harpsichord, sampler, saxophones and other miscellaneous noises.

Albums the prime-time sublime ( )

Press Reviews http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/pts & “PtsCO knows how to pause, to arouse that poignancy without which music cannot invade and overturn the heart. Their music makes the ‘radicalism’ of much recent music sound adolescent and insulated, closed to experience.” “Play it in public and heads turn.” – Ben Watson, The Wire “This orchestra breaks all the rules and it's hard not to be impressed by their unpredictability and their wide range of sounds, some of which sound like a bad day on the commode.” - David Lockeretz, The Muse’s Muse “It's either genius or madness.” - Mark Fisher, 1340mag.com “I loved what I heard. I found it engaging in that it covers its own succint domain, free of avant-cliche. This is a tough feat. The work establishes a different theatre (territory?) for each tune.” - James Cornish, WEMU-FM DJ, Michigan “…such a surplus of material can lead to great things like skyscrapers 'n stuff, but it can also lead to junkyards. The problem is that the orchestra, wearing their absurdities on their sleeves, seems content in duplicating one…” - Josh Kazman, Splendid

Additional Info http://www.primetimesublime.com

Location Ridgewood, New Jersey - USA

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