July 06, 2005
The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra (pTsCO):
"It sounds like someone crammed a blender full of rabid dogs, distempered cats, lab-tested rats and shrieking women climbing high on chairs to avoid the conflagration at their feet; pushed the button for 'puree'; forgot to put the lid on; then sat down in front of the television, flipping through all the stations available from the best satellite dish as fast as their remote would allow with the volume turned up on their Dolby Surround Sound system while it all mixed together. And then recorded the entire fiasco and played it backwards, just for good measure." Yeah, that's it!
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Dunno about that review. The cuts I listened to showed too much talent and intent to be as raw as Dimestore Productions.com thinks about pTsCO. Maybe they were listening to the Portsmouth Sinfonia. The several selections I listened to sounded like FZ when he was trying to be over-the-top (of course he and they succeed at being over-the-top) to ostensibly confront and disrupt notions of coherence and flow in music. Amusing. Mostly.
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in other words, weirdness for the sake of weirdness?
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Weirdness for weirdness' sake again seems more Portsmouth Sinfonia. Musicians all, but not allowed to play any instrument they are trained on. I always thought Zappa had a reason to do what he did, though I also think that he beat us over the head with his humor--when a little more subtlety would have been more, umm, listenable? The review on the pTsCO site that seems spot on is the one that compares them to Zappa and Peter Schickele.