Luke De-Sciscio

Live music by the sea

When an act pulled out of one of our Blue Moon festivals, Luke was recommended to me and filled the gap at the last minute, after, I lost all contact with him. Then recently I heard his name again on BBC 6 Radio Music when Huey Morgan played songs from Luke’s album Theo and I got back in touch. We’re very happy to welcome him to his debut Sunset Session.

‘Luke De-Sciscio found his songwriting voice the old-fashioned way: by writing (and mostly not releasing) dozens upon dozens of folk songs, spread out across a decade, often while living on a boat with no electricity or heat’.

His songs, mostly recorded live, winnow his music down to its most essential ingredients: a moment, a feeling and ‘the most beautifully intrinsic lyrics I’ve ever heard’.

It is through this pursuit of truth that Luke has gained a devotional listenership, secured support slots with legends such as Cat Stevens and Jose Feliciano and been booked to play shows across Europe and the USA.

In 2018 Luke De-Sciscio shared the stage with Jeff Buckley co-writer Gary Lucas to sing some of the very songs that had initially inspired him to walk the musical path he treads today.

In 2020 Luke released three critically-acclaimed albums: Good Bye Folk Boy, Eucharist and Sublime. Though each record is a Universe unto its own, together they form something bigger. A single cohesive journey from despair, agony and pain, through reflection, into light. Of the trilogy Luke explained: ‘the first is the snapping of a mirror, the second a coming to terms, the third is the light through the cracks.’

He has established a burgeoning following, thanks in part to the likes of Spotify who’ve championed him in their ‘Most Beautiful Songs in the World’ playlist on three separate occasions, with R.O.B.Y.N., I Gave You All My Love and An Honour.

Clash Magazine declared Luke a ‘rising song-writing force’ and his fourth album in fourteen months put to rest any claims to the contrary.