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Phil & Tilley are often described as one indivisible unit, they have an understanding of each others playing that can only be learnt over time. They find influence from love, loss and a life on the road, travelling to many countries to share their story. Their debut album Cold Flame has gained them loyal listeners around the World. Phil & Tilley play a style of folk music that incorporates traditional instruments with new age sounds. Using an upright bass, acoustic guitar and lap steel along with delays to create an ambient soundscape. Blending this instrumentation with vocal harmonies, Phil & Tilley produce a sound that is truely their own .

Phil and Tilley started writing music together in the autumn of 2012 surrounded by the New Forest (UK), an ancient woodland situated on the southern coast of England, an inspiration for these lifelong friends. Phil and Tilley play a blend of alternative acoustic/folk music, with influences from artists such as Xavier Rudd, Ben Harper and John Martyn. They incorporate their own ideas, using a slide guitar, the more traditional acoustic guitar and an unusual, fold-up-for-travel, upright bass, to create a sound that is uniquely their own. A yearning for travel and playing music has seen them play in Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium and South East Asia, but their story continues to take them wherever the music allows them to go.