A lazy, half-drunk jazz-blues lament wrapped in dry wit and graveyard charm. Delivered with a shrug and a smirk, this loose, smoky version of Barbara Allan lets the death come slow and sideways. Vocals wander behind the beat, stumble into melody, and leave behind a trail of shrugging indifference. It’s tragic, but mostly funny. Maybe both.
Lead: Roy Tanner - synthetic androtenor A2–E5. low-mids cut 200–400 Hz; edge +6 dB @3 kHz. Non-rhotic; T=glottal; TH→F. Original comps + masters. AI-made; NOT CLONED.

Credits: Concept/Orchestration: Vesper Loom. Lyrics: Adrian Călin Ionescu, inspired by Scottish Ballads collected by Francis James Child (1894). Production: Vesper Loom & A.C. Ionescu. © Copyright 2025 Adrian Călin Ionescu. All rights Reserved. AI Collaboration

Barbara Allan

A late-evening shuffle through candle smoke and cheek, this piece lounges in its own looseness. Roy Tanner delivers each line with a calculated shrug, half-sung, half-performed, dragging just behind or darting just ahead of the beat. His voice never begs; it teases, lilts, and punctuates with sudden bursts of “aw!” and “a!” that land like winks across the bar. The arrangement spirals gently outward: brushed drums, sly trumpet bridges, and a rhythm section that seems to lean back and watch. It's chamber pop at its most unbuttoned, artful, amused, and entirely in character.
Lead: Roy Tanner - synthetic androtenor A2–E5. low-mids cut 200–400 Hz; edge +6 dB @3 kHz. Non-rhotic; T=glottal; TH→F. Original comps + masters. AI-made; NOT CLONED.

Credits: Concept/Orchestration: Vesper Loom. Lyrics: Adrian Călin Ionescu, inspired by Scottish Ballads collected by Francis James Child (1894). Production: Vesper Loom & A.C. Ionescu. © Copyright 2025 Adrian Călin Ionescu. All rights Reserved. AI Collaboration

Giles Collins

The Two Sons of Oxenford unfolds like a crooked folktale whispered in a smoke-hung club, told in three increasingly unbuttoned movements. Anchored by a lazy, behind-the-beat narrator who sings as if he’s forgotten he’s still on stage, the piece sways from wry balladry into deconstructed jazz fusion, gradually shedding melodic certainty for something looser, stranger, more haunted. Horn stabs, Rhodes stumbles, and rhythm section shrugs shape a world where nothing resolves—except the inevitability of charm slipping into consequence. A lounge suite for the end of myth.
Lead: Roy Tanner - synthetic androtenor A2–E5. low-mids cut 200–400 Hz; edge +6 dB @3 kHz. Non-rhotic; T=glottal; TH→F. Original comps + masters. AI-made; NOT CLONED.

Credits — Concept/Orchestration: Vesper Loom. Lyrics: Adrian Călin Ionescu, inspired by Scottish Ballads collected by Francis James Child (1894). Production: Vesper Loom & A.C. Ionescu. © Copyright 2025 Adrian Călin Ionescu. All rights Reserved. AI Collaboration

The Two Sons of Oxenford

Childe Maurice
A barroom confession that forgets how to end.
This track begins in velvet—lazy swing, harpsichord, upright bass—but fractures halfway through. Time slips. The singer drags behind the grid, stumbles into silence, then emerges altered: half-spoken, half-erased.
Jazz fusion at the edge of noir, built on a chamber pop skeleton, collapsing into digital fog.

Lead: Roy Tanner - synthetic androtenor A2–E5. low-mids cut 200–400 Hz; edge +6 dB @3 kHz. Non-rhotic; T=glottal; TH→F. Original comps + masters. AI-made; NOT CLONED.

Credits — Concept/Orchestration: Vesper Loom. Lyrics: Adrian Călin Ionescu, inspired by Scottish Ballads collected by Francis James Child (1894). Production: Vesper Loom & A.C. Ionescu. © Copyright 2025 Adrian Călin Ionescu. All rights Reserved. AI Collaboration

Childe Maurice

Synthetic musician Vesper Loom weaves forgotten meters into clean engines. Dry drums, baritone lines, held air. Century-old blues/gospel fragments rewired into spare, modern grids—hooks used once, endings that stop on one. AI-led, human-assisted by Adrian Călin Ionescu.

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