Totnes based jazz infused ambient music duo JAZZIENT release new track 'The Seashell Waltz' - Watch the video here
With Bev Knowlden on saxes and Peter Shearn on guitars, Jazzient are two thirds of the Totnes band "Shadow Factory" with a stronger focus on jazz infused ambient music. The duo make full use of looping and synthesised sounds enabling live performances that don't skimp on the more complex angles of the compositions.
This track has been further developed from a very short piece that was originally part of a soundtrack to a surrealist film that Shadow Factory performed live in the Totnes Cinema as part of the Transition Town Film Festival. The event was almost banned by South Hams District Council due the 1928 film: "The Seashell and the Clergyman" being unclassified and featuring nudity. After a week of tense discussions, thankfully, a decision was made on the actual day of the performance allowing it to go ahead!
Bev and Peter have been able to continue working together throughout the lockdown and wanted to expand the haunting waltz from the one minute scene and performed the piece for the first time at a live event in St Mary's Church Totnes, just before christmas 2021 with poet and comedian Matt Harvey. The response to the song encouraged a studio recording and video to accompany the track.
The duo are now recording a full length album with music developed over the last two years and are aiming for release on April 2nd when they will be headlining a revisit to St Mary's Church which will also feature the folk inspired duo of Paul Hussell and Carole Madge along with the current Bard of Exeter, stand-up comedy poet, Robert Garnham.