About Chimp Spanner

'Chimp Spanner' is an instrumental progressive metal project I've been working on for the past few years. The idea has always been to bring together all the music I love into one package, from low tuned tech metal and dark seedy fusion, to warbly 80's ambient electro and cheesy feel-good euphoria.

My first full length release, 'At the Dream's Edge' (2010 Basick Records) brings all of this together to create a sound that's new, yet familiar. Angular and jarring, yet ambient and evocative. It's soundtrack metal, progressive retro-futurism, a polymetric space opera, music for hover-boarding championships...but most people just say it's kinda 'chimpy'.

October of this year will mark the first live performance of CS material, and will be the start of an ongoing live element to the project.

About Me

My name is Paul Antonio Ortiz, I'm 26 and based in Essex, UK. I'm a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer and have been hopelessly passionate about music since I can remember. I mainly play extended range guitars (7 and 8 string) but I also play bass, keyboards and drums on all of my tracks. All recording, mixing and production is done from my home studio.