"A leaf upon a dancing breeze / Was it a chance in direction? / A dog bark in Japan? / A miscreant correction of the orbits around Saturn?"
If you count Luke De Sciscio's alt rock, post rock incarnation / collaboration And Then We Lived Forever then this piece will be the 12th time I have written about this talented, very introspective being since 2018. Luke is a prolific artist with forays into different evolutionary parts of himself, maybe the biggest, most grand example of his experiment need is this years brilliant conceptual album, "The Banquet" (see review link below) and while most artists would take a satisfying breather (that complex piece of work was released in September), Luke has released his latest 12 track album "If one thing were different, nothing would be the same" just days ago on November 29th.
If I were the morbid type, Luke's breathless sprint to create might worry me as if his end is imminent and, and in fact, on the beautiful and thoughtful "Prove It's You" from the new album, against acoustic folk guitar, dreamy garden rock electric guitar and a wonderful smashed beat, he starts, "Times a thief / I know, I know , I know , I know, I know / but it was me that couldn't escape gravity..." with his beautiful vocal quiver full of poison arrows.
The line about gravity hit me and I couldn't help but thing of Thom Yorke's plaintive line from "Fake Plastic Trees", "but gravity always wins..." and while Luke and Thom are referencing two different things, maybe the idea is the same. We are all here for a short time. Within the history of the cosmos we are all only here for a blink of an eye and the whole time here on earth I suppose gravity is pulling us down persistently, constantly back to the earth from which we ultimately came from.
I have not had the pleasure and opportunity to delve into "If one thing were different, nothing would be the same" but "Prove It's You" feels like it has existential threads running all through it. I sense (maybe) that Luke is ruminating about his place here. Touching poetically, somberly about his relationship with himself as an artist, his relationship with the point of light that he loves (his significant other), his relationship with his audience and the one his audience has with him. Luke and his artistic self is one and the same. I sense that he is this creative shark who seems to have to create or he feels he will not exist, but ultimately he will either way. That is the hard or soft truth depending on your perspective.
At this point, I am realizing that I am playing dime store psychologist and for that I apologize. I have said here on American Pancake about a 1000 times that songs are sonic Rorschach tests and that they tell us more about ourselves than the artist who creates them. So, most likely I am doing a lot of projection here. I can tell you one thing though (the morbid me), I have been collecting funeral songs, making a playlist for my final goodbye and "Prove It's You" would be perfect for it.
In the final analysis, once again, Mister Luke De Sciscio has spilled some blood and graced me, graced us all with his gorgeous vocal countenance and thoughtful, damn reflective songs that curl around us and find a place in our hearts and for that I am grateful.
-Robb Donker Curtius
Luke De-Sciscio, folk indie, avant pop, singer songwriter, wanderlust, acoustic reflections, breath and release, post Banquet, "Prove It's You" (Official Video),
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.americanpancake.com/2022/06/album-preview-luke-de-sciscio-and.html
https://soundcloud.com/lukedesciscio
https://www.facebook.com/Lukedesciscio/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/41RGqF0I6xFG0GzQmLKDgb
https://lukedesciscio.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lukedesciscio/
Luke De-Sciscio established a name for himself writing simple and disarming folk songs, winning over audiences with candid lyricism and exposé like authenticity. In 2022 he returns for the next phase in his journey, establishing the scope of a continually evolving spirit; unafraid to break formula and push the frontiers of creation. ‘The Banquet’ is an elaborate and sprawling dream. Twisting and hard to pin down. With unflinching candour he invites us to span the breadth of his vision.
https://www.facebook.com/Lukedesciscio/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/41RGqF0I6xFG0GzQmLKDgb
https://lukedesciscio.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lukedesciscio/
Luke De-Sciscio established a name for himself writing simple and disarming folk songs, winning over audiences with candid lyricism and exposé like authenticity. In 2022 he returns for the next phase in his journey, establishing the scope of a continually evolving spirit; unafraid to break formula and push the frontiers of creation. ‘The Banquet’ is an elaborate and sprawling dream. Twisting and hard to pin down. With unflinching candour he invites us to span the breadth of his vision.
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