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FROM CHIMPAN-A TO CHIMPAN-Z

About Me

PURCHASE OUR DEBUT FULL-LENGTH CD 'DESIGNS' THROUGH SCRATCH RECORDS
In 2006 From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z recorded their debut album “Designs” with engineer S.J. Kardash (of Saskatoon’s Junior Pantherz and The Blood Lines) and secured national distribution through Scratch Records In the same year, the band climbed hand-over-hand out of the local scene and garnered attention across the Country, with tours taking them as far as New York City on two separate occasions.
A dynamic center between driving punk, art rock experimentation, and thinking mans pop, the band’s sound is simultaneously thought provoking and infectious. Their debut effort Designs captures their sound and live energy and layers it with full strings, choir, accordion, and so much more. With as much time invested in its texture and subliminal as its hooks and immediate pay-offs, Designs is a debut of immense promise for this Western Canadian quintet who scratch you in places you didn't even realize needed itching. As the cliché goes "there's something for everybody” and that means you!
"The ethereal and chilling instrumentals are in a class of their own, creating the sort of atmosphere that makes the hair on your arms stand up."
-Chartattack Aug '06
With the addition of engaging, energetic performances From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z has been ear-marked as a band “you just have to see” by Winnipeg’s Uptown Magazine. Now, From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z looks onward and upwards, writing and planning tours across Canada and the United States in 2007.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/9/2005
Band Website: www.chimpana2z.com
Band Members: Tim Arsenault - Bass, Percussion.Levi Soulodre - Guitar, Violin, Vocals, Noise.Jared Beattie - Guitar, Vocals, Scissor Kicks.Elsa Gebremichael - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Percussion.Jordan Schenstead - Drums, Vocals.
Influences: Passionate music, visuals, scent, and food...We are influenced/enjoy the music of the following:Foo Fighters, Anberlin, Saves the Day, Radiohead, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, KANYE WEST, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer, Moneen, The Beatles, Thrice, Thursday, Saosin, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Queens of the Stone Age, Get-Up Kids, Thrush Hermit, Sigur Ros, Tool, Raising the Fawn, Coheed and Cambria, Crowned King, Sloan, Joel Plaskett, DFA '79, The Bleeding Alarm, Drive by Punch, Ten Second Epic, The Killers, The Postal Service, Arcade Fire, Phantom Planet, Deftones, My Chemical Romance, The Used, The Get up Kids, Reggie and the Full Effect, Beck, The Blood Brothers, Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Minus the Bear, Metric, Poison the Well, Projektor, Q and not U, Bridge City Allstars, The Roots, J Dilla, The Red Light Sting, Boston, Refused, the Shins, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Codeseven, Despistado, Billy Talent, Clann Zu, Elliott Smith, The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Fiery Furnaces, Pavement, the Pixies, New Order, Black Mountain, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Stars, the Constantines, Bloc Party, Converge, Between the Buried and Me, Jason Collett, Adolyne, Adelade, Filmmaker, Joy Division, Cursive, Kaddisfly, Final Fantasy and countless more...We also enjoy walks, nature, friendship, beauty, love, betrayal and trust. (Let's not forget a great meal, especially @ Amigo's!!!)
Sounds Like: The Sound Of Simians Kissing
Record Label: Somnambulist Sound System
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tour...& lack of...A Reflection from Levi

Dear friends: If it hasn't crossed your attention already, you will notice that both of my bands' latest tour dates scheduled beyond Alberta have dissapeared. Where and why, might you ask? Alas, those...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:38:00 GMT

Berlin Live Video Performance

Greetings and Salutations:One of the good comrades in All Else Fails (Edmonton) was able to shoot this motion picture footage of us playing in Edmonton in the middle of January. We have...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:43:00 GMT

Tour Update n.1 Sept/Oct 2006

Hullo everyone! Firstly, sorry to everyone hoping to see us play in Peg or the Sault. Our van broke down in the middle of nowhere, besides a decaying fox with vampire-ish teeth. We were towed to Schoa...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:00:00 GMT

'Designs' now available @ Scratch Records!

from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z's debut album Designs can now be purchased online throughout Canada at one of Canada's most prestigious indie music distributors, Vancouver's Scratch Records. Please follow...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:59:00 GMT

more songs and tour info...

Hey Everyone! Check it out... we have 2 more songs posted. Listen to them everyday... do it!!!!!Also, as you can see we've been doing more tour planning for eastern Canada once again so if one of our ...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:34:00 GMT

Back at home, Thanks & News!

SOOOOO we're finally back home and very happy to be! Not that tour wasn't super fun, it's just nice to have comfortable sleeps in our own beds and be able to shower consistently (well some o...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:21:00 GMT

Tour Update 7.

Montreal is super sweet! Especially hitting it up on Grand Prix weekend as well as the St. Jean Baptiste holiday... which means drinking on the closed off streets packed with people scoring a bunch of...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:14:00 GMT

Tour Update 6!

Toronto is an awesome place.  All the outdoor pools are free, but we've taken to them after hours anyways for some naked canonballs!  Plus a free movie theatre provided by Leo37 for some mid...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:43:00 GMT

Tour Update .5

We meet crazy new people everyday......some of them get us liquored up for free and let us party in their parents fancy houses while they are away....some of them yell, "You're fucking ugly; you ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:15:00 GMT

Tour Update .4

Do yourselves a favor, go do the following:Watch The Refused Are Fucking Dead DVDFollowed by The March Of The Penguins DVDListen to the Volcanoless In Canada and the Robot Alliance mp3's (unless you g...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:17:00 GMT