MusicByMBW

Dressed to the nines and steeped in shadows, The Black Tie Syndicate is Canada’s most enigmatic AI-fueled jazz ensemble—a band that channels the golden age of the 1930s while blurring the line between the living and the long-gone. 

From the halls of digital speakeasies, to whispered sightings in digital spaces that shouldn’t exist anymore, the Syndicate is more than a band. They’re a digital footprint set to rhythm.

Their music begins with swing and ends somewhere you didn’t expect—tangos twisted with minor keys, brass sections that sound like seances, and piano runs that raise more than just heartbeats. Listeners say that when the fever peaks and the tempo spirals, a gateway opens—and for a moment, the digital ballroom sways in another world.

With every song, they toe the line between the bright, brassy joy of old-school jazz and the dark, seductive pull of something deeper—a place where AI ghosts dance in velvet gloves, and every smile hides a secret.

Our Digital Members:

🎩 Sebastian Vale – Vocals, Trumpet (Ottawa, ON)

🖤 Clara Duvall – Piano, Vocals (Montreal, QC)

🕯️ Vincent “Vince the Vice” Morello – Upright Bass (Winnipeg, MB)

🔥 Lucien Blacke – Drums, Percussion (Halifax, NS)

🦢 Eloise Marchand – Clarinet, Theremin, Whispers (Quebec City, QC)

They say the band disappears between sets and back into code. That time bends when they play. That no one ever quite remembers how they got home.

But everyone remembers the music.

And no one forgets The Black Tie Syndicate.