Slide guitar & clawhammer banjoist based in Nashville. Tennessee.

Thanks for dropping by! All of the music that is loaded up on here is original music and lyrics unless stated otherwise. If you wanna grab a dl of anything that isn't... grabbable.. let me know and I can get it to you!

"Dreams are really important to me. I think the world you experience when you’re dreaming is physically real, in some way. I don’t understand it at all, but I’ve had enough intense experiences to justify that belief. For me, it’s a sort of parallel reality to our normal, waking consciousness – one where time doesn’t exist and dead relatives can hang out with you. Whenever I’m making art or music, I feel like I’m trying to reach over into that place and bring some of it back into this one."

2016: This year, I plan to release a few thematic LPs of original folk/americana songs.

2013: The (Half) Year of Jazz. Like Project 52 Songs, I intended to post one song per week - the difference being that these were all to be jazz standards. However, life got in the way, so I had to stop this project after about four months. http://yearofjazz.wordpress.com/

2012: "The Robot". The album is best described as experimental-vocaloid-folktronica with a touch of ambient. The album is available for name-your-price download at the-robot.bandcamp.com.

2011: Project 52 Songs: I spend this year writing, recording, and producing a song each week. I was thrilled to be made "SoundClouder of the Day" (#SCOTD) during this project. Many of the songs are still available here.

In addition to this work, my folk/protest album, “Traitor” was released on August 9, 2011. It is available at iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/traitor/id455176631

Hey everyone!  I'm predominately a singer songwriter, my style is an intimate acoustic folk. Most of my tracks on here are sketches, in their most raw and vulnerable state. My truths. My therapy. The incredible support from this community gives me the courage to keep writing and posting, imperfections and all. SoundCloud has kind of changed my life and for that I will be forever grateful. I've also had the opportunity to work on some incredible collaborations with some amazingly talented artists. Some tracks are free downloads and some others are available for purchase on itunes, CD Baby and Bandcamp. Thanks so much for listening..... 

Much Love,
Cyra



Thanks for stopping by! Hope you like a few tunes.

-Tom & Josh

Kind Words:

"I haven't heard music like that really since Simon & Garfunkel, and I love those guys. They didn't sound like anybody I had ever heard before, and they had a style of music that was just very cool. You guys have got that but your own original sound as well. I can see a bright future for you guys, I really can."  -Michael Angel from "Michael Angel's Cosmic Grab Bag"

"Getting a good blend of voices in a band is always an iffy sort of thing. Sometimes the harmonies work, sometimes they don't. These two guys from Boston got it right and then some. They work the chords with a lot more creativity than your average pop singer, who tends to stick with tried and true 3rds. The light instrumentation, along with the laid back feel of the songs allow the vocals to take center stage. It helps that the songs are originals designed especially to fit their voices. The resulting songs are definitely worth the listen."  -Matt Hundley, "The Indie Reviewer"

"Damon Hill are hugely talented and good boys to boot. I have been following them for a year or so and all of their tracks are excellent, great sense of harmonies and melody. Any discerning Soundclouder should be following these guys." Soundclouder https://soundcloud.com/elgreebo

"My first impression of these two was 'mmm...interesting.' I couldn't place their style, but that's what's great about them - they are in a league of their own. You get the feeling they love music and have fun playing it, not that they are lazy in making music, but they are comfortable and relaxed in what they make. They have potential to have their names in lights." -Youtuber Extraordinaire - http://soundcloud.com/wheelbellow

"Tom & Josh, aka: Damon Hill, are based in Boston and many hail them as two new song writers that the world hasn’t seen anything like since the days Simon & Garfunkel first made their splash." -Deane Rimerman from Endbigbanks.com

"They have come up with this really interesting sound. I do enjoy the acoustic music, some songs just grab me, and they sound so much better with just a guitar and lyrics, and I thought that song ('So It Goes') was definitely worth playing."  -Matt from "It's a Podcast on the Radio!"

"These guys do folk the way I remember folk. Every once in a great while you'd hear a great group or duo and these guys, if they had played at an open mike and I heard this tune or any of the tunes that they do, I would've been blown straight out of the room. These guys have great talent. These guys know what they're doing and they know how to do it."  -Michael Angel from "Michael Angel's Cosmic Grab Bag"

"Damon Hill is one of my favourite groups on SoundCloud, and this is their latest upload ('Then I'll Be Alright'). Their musicality is always spot on, and they write the nicest, most memorable tracks. My favourite bit comes in around 1:00, coupled with some sweet harmonies a little later on. These guys rock, love ‘em." - Soundcloud favorite http://soundcloud.com/dgreening

"Damon Hill is the kind of stuff the world really needs. So much respect for the free music; and it's all brilliant. Best wishes from the UK. Hopefully bump into you at a campfire someday." -Soundcloud user SpreadtheWordYo

Thanks for listening, and for your kind comments and support over the years. The new and old studio hardware is all set up and connected.  I'm currently configuring the MIDI connections.  After that I still need to update everything and configure the software and my DAW (Cakewalk).  It should only be a few months at this point before I can start recording again.

I periodically update my website with new landscape photographs, and articles about my music.  So far there are articles regarding Jan Hammer-esque FM synth sounds and his analog techniques.  I plan to record new pieces of my own using some of those old-school techniques, and to make patches available for those sounds for the Moog Subsequent 37, U-He's DIVA, and probably other synths, such as Omnisphere, Massive, Pigments, etc.

Please consider visiting my website https://danling.com/.

Take care, and leave a comment!

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A little bit about me...
I've been a fan of electronic music since it's humble beginnings. The first piece I heard was by Tangerine Dream. i believe it was called Fauni Geni; something like that. I was hooked. It was simply the weirdest, most wonderful thing I had ever heard. As I got more interested in it, I discovered that there was a growing momentum in the electronic music genre.  I was living in Europe at the time and was in the thick of it all. Suddenly groups like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream were making waves. As time moved on, solo artists started appearing as well. Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Isao Tomita and Kitaro ; among others, had suddenly become mainstream. This is where I really started getting interested in the playing and recording aspects. In time I managed to save up enough money to get myself a small studio and began experimenting with different instruments. Within a time peiod of a few years I had a room full of equipment. Back then you had to actually buy or build effects units. Not like today whee everything is at my fingertips using a pc. Echo's where actually made by recording something to a tape and then running it repeatedly along a playback head. Yikes! Over the years the studio more or less phased out and has now been replaced by a computer that keeps freezing up because it can't seem to handle the sounds and vst machines I toss at it. But that's ok. Nothing is going to stop me from creating new (and unusual at times) music pieces! Cheers to all you soundclouders out there!!!!

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