Music - Live
: Alternative Folk
| Management Company: | Deadpan Alley Entertainment |
| Contact: | Jason Schneider |
| Phone: | (908) 232-8745 |
| Address: | PO Box 441595
West Sommerville, MA 02144 |
| E-Mail: | jim@bigego.com |
| Home Page: | http://www.bigego.com |
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Based around the songwriting genius of poet/singer Jim Infantino (dubbed the "1995 Acoustic Artist of the Year" by the National Acadamy of Songwriters), Jim's Big Ego is a cross-pollinated fusion of styles - drawing heavily from the poetic as well as the rhythmic.
Performing both as a solo artist and with his band, Jim sings and speaks songs and poems that are at once irreverent, funny, deep and insightful. Bass and drums provide volume and depth while occasional blues harp and random samples adorn the music like painted sound.
You may find Jim's Big Ego's sound swimming in the ocean of modern American pop along with Beck, Soul Coughing, The Presidents of the United States of America and They Might Be Giants. Then again, most of their fans say they haven't quite heard anything like them before. Music this original and enjoyable is bound to make a fresh impression and stay in your head and your CD changer for months at a time.
"Infantino may be the only local talent to create an essential breed of alternative folk-rock, and he's done it without losing his poetic substance." - Daniel Gewertz, The Boston Globe
"Only a few of this generation of singer-songwriters have found an original voice, and Jim Infantino is several of them." - Dave Palmater, WUMB FM
"Jim Infantino is not just another depressing folk singer, he's a damn funny depressing folk singer." - The Improper Bostonian
"A morbid poet, a mordant social critic and a savvy scavenger of pop detritus, [Jim Infantino] is to Boston's burgeoning alterna-folk scene what Warren Zevon was to the Los Angeles singer-songwriters of the '70s." -- Seth Rogovoy, Boston Phoenix
"This is smart music for smart people." -- Ken Capobianco, the Boston Tab's top 10 bands for '96
" . . . a band that can combine a multiplicity of genres for the higher aim of producing Music with a capital M. Fun, funky, bluesy and above all original, I urge you each and every one, fair friends, to experience what I have, the amazing expression that is Jim's Big Ego," -- Nick Gass, Northeast Performer
"Absolutely incredible! . . . Titanic is one of the best albums I have ever had the honor of reviewing, and send all praise to Jim Infantino and his Big Ego which is entirely deserved. Funny, sad, profound, moving and finally, evocative of the higher reaches we, as frail mortals, have the potential to attain." -- Nick Gass, Northeast Performer
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