Trio Arjento is Marcy Hull (vox), Jennifer Lockman (piano, vox) and Tom Shea (guitars, vox). Their story is a long and gloriously meandering one.
Tom and Marcy have known each other since before there were trees. They bump into each other regularly during grade school, and in high school T turns M down when she auditions to sing for his obnoxious teen metal band. He chooses a guy with big hair instead. When that band breaks up, as all teen metal bands must, M conks T over the head and convinces him there is more to life, more to music. Luckily for all involved, Tom listens. For the next 10 years or so, T & M perform as an acoustic duo and hone their songcraft.
Dramatic pause while Tom leaves the continent and starts a family. Marcy gets serious about her studies. Life goes on. But the urge to make music draws them back together.
Jennifer enters the picture in 2008, when she joins T & M, playing keyboards in another big rock and roll band. Once again, Marcy conks Tom over the head and reminds him there is more to life, more to music. The band splits in half, losing the drums, the bass, the second guitar; and in the process, gaining a whole lot of empty space and silence. This is a good thing. Trio Arjento is born.
Tom writes words. The three of them together create the music and the melodies. Then they subtract everything that gets in the way of the song. What's left is a smooth, sharp, complex, and heady blend of musical styles and influences: scotch whiskey for the ears.
Their soulful, fragile, exploratory sound mixes jazz, blues, pop and singer-songwriter traditions to create musical tapestries where every note tells a story. Beautiful and challenging original songs nestle comfortably beside dramatic revisions of jazz and pop standards in their far-ranging repertoire.
Listen and be loved.