Artist Profile
About The Edge of Everything
The Edge of Everything is the solo recording project of Damian Dysart Reese, working out of Hawai‘i Island. What began in late 2025 as a single reworked cover turned into a monthlong writing streak of more than twenty songs. Twelve of them became Hold This Home Steady, a debut album that moves from distorted grunge to bare acoustic confession and back, built around love, fatherhood, and the daily work of staying put.
This first album is about opening my eyes to every reason to choose home, and my heart to the woman who kept it steady till I came around.
The sound draws on the guitars of the 90s and 2000s, the records built to be played start to finish and put on repeat, in the car, mowing the lawn, or at 2am with the house finally quiet. The title track is a tribute to his wife, reworked across four versions on the record. "Grew Up Together" is about parenthood. "Whirlwinds" and "Promises Fade Away" grew out of journals he kept in the 1990s.
A note from the artist
How I Made This Album
I'm an Army veteran, now rated 100% disabled. Playing an instrument was never going to happen for me, no matter how much I practiced. That never touched the passion for music itself, so I found another way to make it.
Every guitar part, every drum hit, every vocal on this record came out of AI music tools. What I did was direct it: choosing which takes survived, which lines got rewritten from scratch, which version of "Hold This Home Steady" actually said what I meant, which songs got cut because they weren't honest enough, then remixing every track by hand afterward, pulling in new instruments and sounds until it sat right. Twelve made the album out of more than twenty I wrote across a month.
Nobody played that solo and nobody stood in a booth for these vocals. I wish I had, and I would have if I could. I belt these songs out in the car with my kids and in the shower, and we all play air guitar and air drums to them at full volume. That's as close as I get to performing them, and it's genuinely how the record got made. Every lyric, every structural call, every mix decision came from me, revised and re-revised until it actually sounded like something I'd want to put on repeat.
