Arunachal - Vocals, Guitars.
Devin Hannan - Bass, Guitars.
Stephan Szczesniak - Drums, Percussion.
Darren Ford - Guitars.
Todd Larter - Bass, Guitars, Vocals.
Influences
Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, The Pixies, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Talk Talk, Led Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins, Lana Laro, Catherine Wheel, U2, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Burrell, Elbow, The Verve, D'Angelo, The Secret Machines, Rush, The Police, Wilco, Miles Davis, Alice In Chains, The Doors, Audioslave, Tool, Bill Evans
Toronto-based Lickpenny Loafer started ten years ago as a songwriting journey by Arunachal and Devin Hannan.
Weaned on a wide range of influences, the band today draws heavily from contrasting styles and serves up its own version of progressive pop. Driven by soaring vocals and expressive bass melodies, the band exists in a place where Nick Drake, Wilco, and Jeff Buckley might meet for a cup of coffee. With the added influence of contrasting styles such as Miles Davis, The Smiths, D’Angelo, and Radiohead, the music is completed with a layering of various and sundry sounds that both surprise and test the listener.
This musical collaboration is the combination of two very different and personal journeys. Arunachal was born in Calcutta, India, into a South Indian household that was passionate about classical (carnatic) music. Raised in a family of singers, he began devouring music as a toddler when his grandmother, a composer, would regularly keep him with her as she developed her compositions. She would write in a focused trance while he would sit on her lap chewing through sari after sari. This was how Arunachal learned to eat music.
Devin Hannan made his first guitar out of a 2x4, nails and elastic bands at the age of 11. After a year of trying to make music out of toolshed castaways, his father finally granted him a real guitar on his 12th birthday. From the start, he totally committed himself to studying, discovering, and playing the blues. B.B. King, Muddy Waters, and Robert Johnson would be his first great teachers, before Jimi Hendrix provided the segue into the world of rock.
In 1998 Arunachal and Devin met while studying to become engineers, beginning a fruitful songwriting collaboration that was essential to survival during those five years filled with heat exchangers, pump curves, and differential equations.
In 2003, Arunachal journeyed to South Africa. He spent over a year in the country, absorbing the culture, enduring many challenges, and ultimately falling in love with its people. At around the same time, Devin endured a grave personal tragedy, one that spelled a very different kind of journey for him - an immense struggle that ultimately revealed the inextricable weave of sorrow and hope in life. Both experiences yielded a tremendous outpour of songs. Again, writing music proved essential to survival.
In the spring of 2005, Lickpenny Loafer made their official debut in Toronto. The band has since played countless gigs and gathered a substantial and loyal local following. In January of 2007, they were very proud to announce the release of their first EP (self-titled). The next logical, and essential, step is the completion of their first full length-album.
In today's world of information overload and three-second sound bites, the band does not exist to be a one-hit wonder; all of their songs have been subject to a tremendous investment of time and energy. The result is music that appeals to audiences much in the way that wine appeals to the taster. It is music that the band hopes will survive, endure, and ultimately shine over a long period of time.
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Thanks again for the interview on Monday. It podcasts through this page if any of your friends missed it. Definitely some brilliant interviewing on the part of Mr. Arunachal!!
The album. Download it. Let it breathe on your playlist for a while. It will reward you in many ways. Then again, maybe you don't like presents. Which is perfectly fine.
It's right here:
Click the 'free user' button and wait a few seconds for a download to start. Tell me if you have problems.
While the songs drip onto your hard disk, rest your eyes on my clumsy love confession: GIRL WITHOUT A SOCK
hey thanks 4 the add check out our new video and also you can subscribe to our youtube channel if you like http://www. youtube. com/Spynation10 have a nice day May10th spy nation waiting for you on itunes
Just watched your videos on the indiemv site...Dayum, Ronnie! I'd heard you guys were awesome, turns out the hype's not for nothin'. ;) I'll be at your TO gigs and will bring friends. :)
Mad skillz? Yeah, I got 'em! Can I make the keys rain like a miami hurricane? Oh, mos def!!! Since you've converted to chad worthington III, its been a little hard to catch up with you...I missed you in TO when you were in Vermont...hope you rocked the Gordon Gartreau like only you can....keep puddin' it on like the Cos!!! Much love Dev, i'll get at you soon, Biggie
I am really enjoying "Bonded" Great vocals, great song! Please let me know when you have added more tracks and what's happening with the band, I would love to hear from you.
May 2007 be a year filled with great health, happiness and much success for all of you! Keep in touch and I will be back ;)
Thanx alot for the comment buddy.Currently I'm working on rest of the album with Derek Sherinian.Thanx for your intrest and support.plz stay in touch.All the best,
Hey you sound like that band I heard that's nothing like I ever heard, you know the one....
Seriously folks. Nice sound, thanks for finding us. We are still in the "get the news out about IndieCan" stage and we have about 18,000 listeners (between college radio and internet radio)and our goal is 100,000 loyals listeners in 2007. If you like us please tell someone.
Thanks for finding us and please keep in touch.
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Joe Chisholm
host, INDIE CAN RADIO
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Thanks again for the great show at Lee's last week. You guys sure brought em out and then blew em outta the water once they were there. Kudos all around.
Again, thank you thank you for finding ang's stuff! She owes you a pop next time she sees you!
