- Ambient
- Soundscape
- Microtonal
- Drone
- Minimalism
- Avant-garde
- Kosmische Musik
- Experimentalism
- Space music
- Ambient rock
- Ambient drone
- Guitar ambient
- Post-classical
Comment: the
60-year-old Englishman David Hughes aka Cousin Silas is being known
as a guitarist who likes to create (and extend) soundscapes for wide
and broad and profound. He has been a prolific artist whose number of
works in frequency can only be compared with an Israeli artist, Wings
Of An Angel. Despite the minimal nature of work his soundscapes seem
to be filled in with an internal burning as if longing for something
out of reach. One can move toward it yet one can never catch it. In a
word, it is intimidating and appealing at the same time. Secondly,
despite the minimal nature of work all the changes to have appeared
during this long-running course conjure up tectonic changes in the
listener's mood and imagination. Not only guitars have been managed
to play tricks on a listener's mood and mind but also superficial dissonant flickers and beatific vibrations add a drift into another direction.
At
One Note it is not stylistically far away from such a
genius as Robert Fripp. After such an issue it can be admitted the
genius nature of David Hughes. By kindred souls it can also be drawn
comparisons with such artists as Bing Satellites, Riccardo Cirani,
Drew Miller aka Brother Saturn, Gaetano Fontanazza, Nick Nightingale,
Stephen Briggs. This superb audio photograph is a part of the
discography of the Batenim Netlabel.
