Hailing from the oft' looked down upon township of Swindon, Luke De Sciscio later relocated to the Georgian city of Bath where he soon found himself immersed in the vibrant singer-songwriter scene that hung around and emanated from the legendary, community owned pub, the Bell Inn.
Initially subsisting in the City through kitchen work and shifts as a labourer, Luke soon took on pupils as a guitar tutor, in his own words 'paying forward the profound gift that music has brought into his life.' For several years, he and his partner lived in a state of near-camping, with no electricity or heat, on a Canal boat where they moved nomadically along a stretch of water that extended as far Bristol in one direction and deep into Wiltshire on the other. He described the Summer's then as long and dreamlike, the Winter's as ageing, in the harsher months it wasn't uncommon that they would wake with their own breath frozen on their faces.
In 2019, following several years of releasing home-recorded original songs, Luke De Sciscio released Good Bye Folk Boy. An album that in many ways subverted and distilled the folk genre.
Inspired by a climactic episode between he and his partner, this album offered an utterly visceral look into the internal landscape shared between these two human beings. A relationship that was predicated upon their mutual openness to explore the breadth of their inner world and that very often saw the traumas and echoes of their past come into the light.
'Good Bye Folk Boy' was immediately met by an overwhelming critical reception that propelled Luke into playing internationally, with shows across Europe, New York and the UK.
It was at this time that he was invited to support legendary artists such as Cat Stevens and Jose Feliciano at Montreux Jazz Festival and SXSW respectively. At the latter of these events Luke had been selected by NPR as 'one of ten acts to catch' at that years festival. However, in 2020 the Global pandemic halted international travel and prevented many shows from taking place, this meant that Luke was forced to return home. Of this time he has stated 'it felt like I'd worked my whole life to light a fuse on a rocket ship and then we finally got the spark and, just like that, it was gone.'
After returning home Luke settled into the only life he knew. Processing grief and pursuing evolution through the persistent and ceaseless practise of writing and recording songs.
Over the next 5 years Luke released upwards of 10 albums. Each of these was barely more than a collection of live recordings. A single microphone thrown up at the foot of the bed he and his partner shared in an effort to, with as little friction as possible, capture the most heated, immediate, raw reflection of whichever song had, over those days, consumed him.
Many of these tracks were recorded in one or two takes but, similarly, there are recordings amongst this period which were performed 100's of times, a gradual honing in on an essence that could only be felt as if beyond a veil.
When, in 2024, Luke's partner gave birth to their first daughter, Luke recorded then an album in the first 6 weeks of her life that, he has said, 'epitomised the spirit of what I was scratching at across that whole time'.
The songs on this album, 'Theo' were recorded across all times of day, some at 4 in the morning, whispered whilst the new lifeform was nursed into sleep. Some whilst the baby slept in the middle of the day. The first track on this album was recorded the day after her birth and the album as a whole is presented in the order the songs were written. The album spent much of the year 2024 amongst the top 100 albums of the year on AlbumOfTheYear.org with critics and fans citing the 'brutal, unflinching insight into parenthood as both unsettling and affirming'.
With the itch to record in this raw, uncompromising way seemingly addressed Luke De Sciscio embarked on a full UK tour and announced that he would henceforth be taking an indefinite hiatus. The period of time he would use to re-establish and reframe himself as an artist, returning when, in his own words, he could 'do justice to the potential and power that he has seen reflected back at him' by audiences and those who've connected with his music.
Following a brief string of recordings with UK-contemporary-blues-guitarist Chris Turpin (Mirador, Ida Mae), Luke De Sciscio announced in 2026 that he was working on his debut-studio album, to be recorded in Normandy, France with esteemed producer duo Simon Willey and James Sanger (Prince, U2, Keane).