snack!
Biography
"Anamnesis" is the culmination of six years of creating, experimenting and recording together. Snack!'s third release, was the result of over 300 hours spent in drummer Arun Pal's studio and is their most focused effort to date. Layers of Latin and Eastern melodies create textures that weave through the songs only to end in unexpected places. Focus on combining different genres and instrumentation within each song was used to create arrangements that would take the listener on a journey within the album. Snack!'s unique "globally-infused textural rock" combines the influences and heritage of each musician. Their live performances focus on exploring and expanding on the boundaries of these genres within each song's structure. This attention to their live shows earned them the Kitchener Waterloo Record's reader's choice award for band of the year as well as slots at many festivals including Hillside Festival, Festival of Friends, Come Together Festival, Jambands Canada Fallfest and Pokeypalooza. Anamnesis is currently in rotation at many college radio stations around Canada and has charted in the top 5 at CJMQ (Lennoxville) and CSKY (Montreal) where it remained for 6 weeks as well as in the top 10 at CFBX (Kamloops) and CKMS (Waterloo).
Adrian Jones is a classically trained vocalist, guitarist and violinist who teaches 70 students each week in all three disciplines. A live performance junkie, Adrian chooses to spend upwards of 150 nights /year performing solo, with the duo "Adrian & Kim" and with snack!. Jones and Régimbal are currently finishing a new duo CD to be released in July.
Arun Pal is a multi-instrumentalist teacher, performer, composer and recording engineer who accompanies many modern dance companies on drums, piano and guitar. His unique approach to percussion incorporates world percussion styles into a traditional drum kit setting. A Wilfrid Laurier Music composition graduate, Arun plays music full time in acoustic and band settings as well as running his own recording studio.
Kim Regimbal is a fiery performer whose playing ranges from ambient flute lines, to punchy baritone sax grooves, to aggressive dissonant alto sax solos. Exciting to watch, Kim often jumps between different instruments many times within each song. Kim also graduated from Wilfrid Laurier's Music program in 1996, and Western's Faculty of Education in 1998, and now teaches Music, Art and Theatre at l'Ecole secondaire Père-René-de-Galinée in Cambridge, Ontario.
Dave Jones is a skilled multi-instrumentalist, performer and instructor whose playing varies from bass duties with snack! to drums, guitar and vocals with art rock band Le Beatos. His focus on live improv and love of experimental music provide a solid foundation for the snack! sound. When not playing or recording, Dave can be found teaching drums at local music schools
Promo Materials
Song Clips
Press
KW Record - "It's hard to think of another more perfectly balanced musical unit on the local scene than snack! and they prove it once again on their third album, Anamnesis"
Echo Magazine - Feb.6, 2003 Snack! Anamnesis By Mike English Snack! Anamnesis Independent This is a local band? Snack's third cd serves an assorted and appetizing dish of musicianship and widespread tuneful knowledge. The beautiful and detailed packaging is right on par with the great effort contained within. Anamnesis sees multi-instrumentalist Kim Régimbal step up to the plate as a songwriter. The contrast of his heady conflict with Adrian Jones' self-aware passion makes for quite the dynamic compositional duo. Régimbal's "Little Ones" has a dark troding vengeance while, conversely, Jones' "Take Me" is momentously propelled by a perfectly mixed pâté of percussion. The cd comes together stylistically like a Rubik's Cube - a little Latin break here, some jazz there, a dash of rock and everything somehow falls into place. Snack benefits largely from the wealth of sound and instruments they are able to draw on. Régimbal alone has 11 instruments listed and every one is used to tastefully colour the soundscapes. Restrained and bombastic at the same time, this snack has become a lush meal. [MK] (Check out snack! this Sunday night at the Registry Theatre.)
Exclaim Magazine - By Brent Hagerman April 01, 2003 Over the course of four albums, Snack! has experimented with multi-instrumental sound textures and diverse rhythmic structures stretching the often dusty confines of your average rock band. With Anamnesis the band's vision has come to fruition. Like the diverse artwork of Vincent Marcone that graces the CD's booklet, each song is an entity onto itself with snippets of classical, Spanish, electronica, and cabaret adding shades and hues to the 11 tracks. Man-for-all-seasons Kim Régimbal's battery of woodwinds thickens the bottom and colours the spaces of the songs while Adrian Jones's guitars sends the band to the far ends of the sonic spectrum with his healthy fascination with melody, samplers and experimentation. Anamnesis, as replete as it is, is still just a starting point for the band's live sets, which thrive off extended improv to see how far afield these songs can go.
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