The People's Republic is thrilled to present two superb new singer/guitarists in the first performance of an ongoing collaboration exploring "other" guitar music, with a compelling abstract and experimental approach to traditional songwriting...

LUKE M DE ZILVA [Guitar and Voice]

GLEN REY [Guitar and Electronics]

SUNDAY May 11th at 7 p.m. [doors at 6.30]

Luke M de Zilva is an experimental songwriter and composer from Sydney/Eora. His music is based on spacious storytelling created with reverberant guitar, strings and voice, often created within – and responding to – unique acoustic environments. Luke has performed at and produced recorded works for Dark Mofo and the Volume festival at the Art Gallery of NSW among other major festivals and institutions. Luke has been described as “uniquely Australian” by acclaimed experimental musician Roy Montgomery and the creator of “stellar and important music” by NTS Radio (UK). In 2024 Luke performed sold-out shows in Europe and in 2025 is an Artist-in-Residence at Bundanon.
Luke's first recording project under his own name, Levelled (2022), was developed in an industrial reverb chamber as part of a creative partnership at the University of Technology, Sydney. Performed with Australian experimental mainstays, violist Mara Schwerdtfeger and cellist Peter Hollo, it was named as a ‘Best of’ in 2022 by The Quietus. Luke's newest release is from his performance at the inaugural Volume Festival at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2023, accompanied once again by cellist Peter Hollo.

LISTEN TO LUKE'S NEW RELEASE HERE

Glen Rey. is the moniker of Mitchell J.G. Reynolds: a musician originally from regional NSW, currently based in Melbourne/Naarm.
Refined over multiple full-length releases under the previous name Bluetung, his sonic world-building is steeped in experimental music history with whispers of kosmische, tape music, avant-folk and microsound echoing into a formless ambient space of his own devising.
Reynolds has been releasing works since 2018 on beloved cult labels including Theory Therapy, Altered States Tapes and .jpeg Artefacts, with his newest LP released by Brierfield Flood Press...

LISTEN TO THE NEW GLEN REY. ALBUM HERE

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