Luke De-Sciscio carries brilliant folk conversations on "Jamie Song" from the masterful "Eucharist" album

"just a little closer my parasite"
Jamie Song is Luke De- Sciscio's first single off his sophomore full length "Eucharist". The UK singer songwriter shuns convention and fills his album full of stripped down songs using only two instruments, his guitar and his voice. For the most part, De-Sciscio seems to not even overdub his guitar and if he does it is not done in an overt way. The album is full of nuance and daring do's. He uses echo to great effect to fill up space, to create spatial  depth and on songs like Jamie Song he creatively, smartly, sings with multiple voices but not in a normal background vocals sort of way but as almost jousting voices creating a bouncing rhythmic cradle of conversations. It is beautiful and quietly exhilarating. De-Sciscio is masterful in the way he evokes emotion and the way he dips into his own pain and deep reserve for love in a big universal way. It is as if his trembling voice connects to mother earth and then connects to us all. 

While at the time of this track review, I may be too emotionally bereft to turn this into a full album review I can tell this is a killer album. Prison of Words, for one, is a spartan masterpiece that feels like a two act confessional and the title track, Eucharist, with it's rich guitar and vocal orchestration that seem to mimic plucking violins (ghosting plucking guitar) accompanying his lead vox is mesmerizing. The vocal performance is full bodied and within the deep tenderness is more playful than I might of heard him before. It is a brilliant song and performance and one of those songs that once you hear, you will undoubtedly revisit like a friend, like a lover for the rest of your life. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Luke De-Sciscio is a UK singer-songwriter whose music sounds like it was transported from a different era of songwriting. Poetically intense and sonically intimate, his releases are recorded almost exclusively live.

Luke's thirst for authenticity draws from the age old adage; 'the truth will set you free.' This mantra which underpins the entirety of his catalogue takes no fuller flight than on 2019's critically acclaimed 'Good Bye Folk Boy'. This 11 track journey was recorded sequentially over the space of 2 months, with each song being recorded on the day it was written. Shortly after the digital release of 'Good Bye Folk Boy’, a collaboration between Vinyl Moon and Luke De-Sciscio was announced that will finally bring Luke De-Sciscio's music to vinyl.

‘Good Bye Folk Boy” has received critical acclaim. The Indie Folx awarded the album 4.3/5 stars describing 'Good Bye Folk Boy' as the epitome of the genre. We All Want Someone To Shout For championed the record claiming 'this is why we do what we do.' To pre-order the Good Bye Folk Boy album head to: https://lukedesciscio.bandcamp.com/