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Cousin Silas
Cousin Silas
	Cousin Silas
Background information
Origin	Huddersfield West Yorkshire, England
Genres	Ambient; Drone; Sound Alchemy
Years active	2001 – present
Labels	Acustronica, Aural Films, BFW Recordings, Earthrid, Earth Monkey Productions, Fflint Central Records, Free Floating, Just Not Normal, Tree Trunk Recordings, We Are All Ghosts, Withering Trees
Members	David Hughes
Website	http://cousinsilas.blogspot.com

Cousin Silas is the stage name of English electronic music artist David Hughes. The name comes from a character in King Crimson's song, "Happy Families". He has released over forty albums on various netlabels. Between 1990 and 2000 he wrote several short stories, poetry, prose, and articles that were published in small press magazines such as Back Brain Recluse, Nova SF, The Scanner, REM, Nerve Gardens, The Lyre, Auguries and Focus. On January 28, 2004 Cousin Silas made an appearance on BBC Radio 1 played by John Peel.^[1] As of 2013, he has collected 30 guitars that he uses in his music.

Biography

David Hughes, born May 7, 1959, is an English musician and electronic music producer most notable for his ambient and drone music. David was born in Huddersfield, and spent most of that time in the Colne Valley. He attended Crow Lane, Royds Hall, Colne Valley High School and Kirklees College, formerly known as Huddersfield Technical College. He then apprenticed as an electrical engineer and moved on to become a telecommunications engineer. Before experimenting with soundscapes in 2000, David played guitar in a couple of local bands doing new wave and punk covers. His current style of music is influenced by JG Ballard, Brian Eno, and Forteana.^[2] The musician is a self-proclaimed “sound alchemist” and has referred to his music as “audio photographs” or “moodscapes.”^[3] Silas is a fan of science fiction novels written between 1950 and 1980 by authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, HP Lovecraft, M.R. James, Brian Aldiss, and Michael Moorcock.^[4]

Discography

Solo Albums

*Lilliput* (2001: Fflint Central)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"View from a Room"	David Hughes	2:09
2.	"Moorgate"	David Hughes	2:09
3.	"Warlock Hill"	David Hughes	2:12
4.	"Setting the Clinch"	David Hughes	2:15
5.	"Lillput"	David Hughes	3:58
6.	"Garden of Pale Children"	David Hughes	1:54
7.	"Chamber 7 Vat 3"	David Hughes	3:37
Total length:			18:14

*Portraits and Peelings* (2003: Fflint Central)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Bug Lady"	David Hughes	4:28
2.	"Olympus Mons"	David Hughes	3:07
3.	"Lesser Spotted Loopwing"	David Hughes	1:15
4.	"Congealer"	David Hughes	6:02
5.	"Rossini Pump Device"	David Hughes	3:33
6.	"Butter of Death"	David Hughes	5:50
7.	"Hologram Chopper"	David Hughes	5:01
8.	"Window Spinnerets"	David Hughes	5:34
9.	"Out of a Neutron Star"	David Hughes	5:25
10.	"Atonement With Beasts"	David Hughes	6:34
11.	"Glass Ravine"	David Hughes	5:36
12.	"Retreat to the Tide"	David Hughes	3:15
Total length:			55:40

*Geographics* (2005: Earth Monkey Productions)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Cathedral Arch Of Trees, Lincolnshire"	David Hughes	3:39
2.	"Shortwave From Cleveleys"	David Hughes	3:08
3.	"The Fog From Immingham"	David Hughes	5:34
4.	"Breakwater At Dawn"	David Hughes	1:35
5.	"Humber Sea Fort"	David Hughes	4:58
6.	"Coming From Crossland Moor"	David Hughes	1:53
7.	"Spurn Point"	David Hughes	5:27
8.	"Entropy On The Pier"	David Hughes	3:16
9.	"Lost Location With Distant Streetlights (For Nicky)"	David Hughes	9:19
10.	"Mill Lights In Valley"	David Hughes	5:42
11.	"Abandoned Airfield"	David Hughes	4:16
12.	"Gaping Gill, Ingleton"	David Hughes	2:00
Total length:			50:52

*Ballard Landscapes* (2005: Earth Monkey Productions)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Empty Airport"	David Hughes	4:05
2.	"Reservoir Outlet Pipe"	David Hughes	3:04
3.	"Manhole 66"	David Hughes	4:38
4.	"The Crystal Jungle"	David Hughes	2:53
5.	"The Death Of Marilyn Monroe"	David Hughes	2:57
6.	"Submarine Pens"	David Hughes	4:18
7.	"Observation (Day 7) - Dealey Plaza"	David Hughes	1:53
8.	"Abandoned Paddy Fields"	David Hughes	2:01
9.	"Inland Lagoon"	David Hughes	3:56
10.	"High Rise Isolation"	David Hughes	3:44
11.	"Process Of Subliminal Decay"	David Hughes	4:32
12.	"Track 12 (The Kiss)"	David Hughes	2:58
13.	"Bikini Atoll"	David Hughes	3:49
14.	"Isolation in Suburbia"	David Hughes	1:15
15.	"Flight Over Abandoned Village"	David Hughes	4:34
Total length:			50:43

*Relic Once Lost* (2005: Earth Monkey Productions)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heaven Under"	David Hughes	15:28
2.	"Night Waves Down Abbey Road"	David Hughes	8:48
3.	"Soggy Toast"	David Hughes	2:56
4.	"Sound 1"	David Hughes	2:27
Total length:			29:37

*Necropolis Line* (2006: Earthrid)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Black Wurm"	David Hughes	6:19
2.	"Entropy"	David Hughes	3:38
3.	"Cluster 784"	David Hughes	2:16
4.	"Humberstone"	David Hughes	4:46
5.	"Ivy Mike"	David Hughes	5:25
6.	"Shaft Seven"	David Hughes	2:53
7.	"The Bridge"	David Hughes	3:29
8.	"Tempest Prognosticator"	David Hughes	2:47
9.	"Tetney Marsh"	David Hughes	2:02
10.	"Looking Back"	David Hughes	4:22
11.	"Swamp"	David Hughes	1:01
12.	"H. P. Lovecraft"	David Hughes	4:57
13.	"Ventricular Orbit"	David Hughes	2:37
14.	"Poppy"	David Hughes	1:48
15.	"The Squirt"	David Hughes	1:34
16.	"Quarry 9b"	David Hughes	2:53
17.	"Mountains of Madness"	David Hughes	3:56
18.	"Red Fog"	David Hughes	2:56
19.	"Ringstone Circle"	David Hughes	2:43
20.	"Leaving Solaris"	David Hughes	2:26
21.	"Necropolis Line"	David Hughes	4:03
Total length:			1:08:51

*Ballard Landscapes 2* (2006: Earth Monkey Productions)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Sands of Shepperton"	David Hughes	5:06
2.	"Crumbling Infrastructures"	David Hughes	3:53
3.	"Cloud Sculptor"	David Hughes	3:26
4.	"Dawn - Utah Beach"	David Hughes	5:39
5.	"Rusting Gantry"	David Hughes	5:26
6.	"Love And Bullets For Bobby & Jack"	David Hughes	4:10
7.	"Motel Architecture"	David Hughes	5:36
8.	"Concrete Islands"	David Hughes	3:23
9.	"The Sign of the Radar"	David Hughes	4:27
10.	"Abandoned Motorway"	David Hughes	3:57
11.	"Vermillion Drift"	David Hughes	3:57
12.	"Drained Swimming Pools"	David Hughes	5:41
13.	"Burning Wreckage"	David Hughes	4:39
14.	"Schematics for Terminal Seventeen"	David Hughes	2:38
15.	"The Death of Reagan"	David Hughes	4:34
16.	"Capsule Retrieval"	David Hughes	2:23
17.	"Island Gardens"	David Hughes	2:34
18.	"After the Hurricane"	David Hughes	4:16
Total length:			1:17:42

*Uncertainty* (2009: Just Not Normal)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Late Evening Snow"	David Hughes	3:09
2.	"Behind Those Eyes"	David Hughes	4:16
3.	"A Moment of Reflection"	David Hughes	1:49
4.	"Retreat"	David Hughes	1:46
5.	"The Sinking of the Cessna"	David Hughes	5:46
6.	"Strathclyde Park Loch #2"	David Hughes	6:21
7.	"Christmas Alone"	David Hughes	4:00
8.	"The Tunnel Was Blocked..."	David Hughes	1:57
9.	"It Kind of Melted"	David Hughes	5:03
10.	"Fading Signals"	David Hughes	4:01
11.	"A Drop in Temperature"	David Hughes	4:39
12.	"Three Chimneys With Ladder"	David Hughes	4:27
13.	"Uncertainty"	David Hughes	13:54
Total length:			1:01:05

*The Melting Static* (2009: Earthrid)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Melting Static"	David Hughes	2:17
2.	"Engineering Reversed"	David Hughes	5:24
3.	"Testing the Blood"	David Hughes	2:03
4.	"Lizard Point"	David Hughes	2:08
5.	"The Phantom Circuit Part 1"	David Hughes	7:04
Total length:			18:56

*The Snow Imposed Silence* (2010: BFW Recordings)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Barrow Hill"	David Hughes	4:56
2.	"Crystalised Steel"	David Hughes	2:15
3.	"Echoes From Satellite 1022883"	David Hughes	2:28
4.	"Festive"	David Hughes	3:08
5.	"Cloudberry Hill"	David Hughes	6:19
6.	"Newscape 5"	David Hughes	15:11
7.	"30 Years"	David Hughes	5:32
8.	"Dereliction"	David Hughes	4:21
9.	"Black Reflection"	David Hughes	3:00
10.	"A Ring of Trees"	David Hughes	3:44
11.	"Abandoned Shipping Lanes"	David Hughes	3:19
12.	"Driftwood Polished By The Oceans"	David Hughes	6:21
13.	"Toad Song"	David Hughes	1:44
14.	"Friars Ridge"	David Hughes	4:07
15.	"The Snow Imposed Silence"	David Hughes	2:43
16.	"Nevada Show"	David Hughes	3:40
Total length:			1:12:48

*Canaveral Dreams* (2010: Acustronica)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Passing"	David Hughes	2:46
2.	"From A Dark Lighthouse Parts 1,2,3"	David Hughes	3:28
3.	"Crane at Train Station"	David Hughes	5:47
4.	"The Decay of Concrete"	David Hughes	4:56
5.	"Sawney Hill"	David Hughes	0:53
6.	"Black Mold"	David Hughes	3:26
7.	"Canaveral Dreams"	David Hughes	4:37
8.	"To The Other Side"	David Hughes	7:35
9.	"Arriving Home"	David Hughes	1:07
10.	"Concrete Towers"	David Hughes	4:51
11.	"Time Lapse Crash - Scene 7"	David Hughes	4:01
12.	"Whitefield Pits"	David Hughes	2:01
13.	"First Night"	David Hughes	3:19
14.	"Through Glittering Trees"	David Hughes	4:32
15.	"Out There"	David Hughes	3:50
Total length:			57:09

*Adrift Off The Islets of Langerhans* (2010: Earthrid)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Depths"	David Hughes	5:49
2.	"The Darkness on Binn Road"	David Hughes	4:13
3.	"The Beauty of Loathing"	David Hughes	5:34
4.	"The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral"	David Hughes	3:12
5.	"The Lower Field on Ebbetts Farm"	David Hughes	3:00
6.	"Upstream"	David Hughes	7:37
7.	"Empty Coastline"	David Hughes	2:27
8.	"Tarnscape"	David Hughes	8:05
9.	"The Loathing of Beauty"	David Hughes	6:21
10.	"Adrift Off The Islets of Langerhans"	David Hughes	7:24
Total length:			53:42

*Complex Silence 9 - Fresh Landscapes* (2010: Treetrunk Records)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"...And Memories Fade"	David Hughes	5:00
2.	"Fresh Landscapes"	David Hughes	6:07
3.	"Golden Contrails"	David Hughes	7:49
4.	"Pollards Moor"	David Hughes	5:32
5.	"Standege Tunnels"	David Hughes	10:46
6.	"Star Nursery"	David Hughes	7:42
7.	"The Tarn Cairn"	David Hughes	8:15
8.	"Northcoates Point"	David Hughes	4:09
9.	"Complexities In Silence"	David Hughes	10:36
10.	"Something Landed In The Forest"	David Hughes	6:55
Total length:			1:12:50

*December's Shipping Forecast* (2010: Unsheep)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cromerty"	David Hughes	1:21
2.	"Dogger"	David Hughes	1:06
3.	"Fastnet"	David Hughes	1:20
4.	"Fisher"	David Hughes	1:19
5.	"Hebrides"	David Hughes	1:15
6.	"Humber"	David Hughes	1:11
7.	"Lundy"	David Hughes	1:32
8.	"Pharoes"	David Hughes	1:07
9.	"Portland"	David Hughes	1:13
10.	"Shannon"	David Hughes	1:09
Total length:			12:33

*The Path Between The Trees* (2012: We Are All Ghosts)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"In One Corner Of The Sky (Jupiter Sings)"	David Hughes	2:23
2.	"Of Ancient Ways"	David Hughes	3:13
3.	"Beneath The Foundations"	David Hughes	3:51
4.	"The Path Between The Trees"	David Hughes	7:15
5.	"Rediscovered"	David Hughes	2:48
6.	"Strange Qualities"	David Hughes	6:57
7.	"Lost Images"	David Hughes	3:48
8.	"The Sealing Of The Pothole"	David Hughes	6:42
9.	"Diversions"	David Hughes	6:11
10.	"Lowland"	David Hughes	3:54
Total length:			47:02

*Unhinged Constellations* (2012: We Are All Ghosts)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The End Of Winter"	David Hughes	5:35
2.	"Skimming Planets Like Stones"	David Hughes	9:32
3.	"Slow Expansion"	David Hughes	6:15
4.	"Something Amiss"	David Hughes	9:43
5.	"Arable Textures"	David Hughes	4:42
6.	"Arial Views"	David Hughes	4:13
7.	"Incredible Adventures"	David Hughes	5:14
8.	"Unhinged Constellations"	David Hughes	5:51
9.	"The Passing Of Ashes"	David Hughes	4:21
10.	"The Ruins By The River"	David Hughes	6:36
11.	"The Brooding"	David Hughes	7:54
12.	"Interference Dub"	David Hughes	6:34
13.	"The Black Plate"	David Hughes	7:02
14.	"Yachting For Pleasure"	David Hughes	4:03
Total length:			1:27:45

*Complex Silence 28* (2012: Treetrunk)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"4 a.m. - Strange Sunrise on Antilles"	David Hughes	4:05
2.	"Beyond the Vale Nebula"	David Hughes	6:39
3.	"Tending a Garden in Zero Gravity"	David Hughes	17:16
4.	"The Unknown Traveller"	David Hughes	7:17
5.	"The Wreck on Altair IV"	David Hughes	6:44
6.	"Time Dilates"	David Hughes	14:24
7.	"Walking Through The Cyclopean Remains of Ford's Mooon"	David Hughes	7:21
8.	"Zenophobia"	David Hughes	15:12
Total length:			1:18:58

*Prisoner Of The Coral Deep* (2014: BFW Recordings)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Strange Dreams"	David Hughes	5:35
2.	"Aria with Screwdriver"	David Hughes	5:28
3.	"Gently Running"	David Hughes	3:03
4.	"Pitt Hill"	David Hughes	3:23
5.	"A New Earth"	David Hughes	7:28
6.	"The Blue Room"	David Hughes	9:11
7.	"Neuronic Past"	David Hughes	5:49
8.	"Drone 25 With Added Guitar"	David Hughes	4:07
9.	"In Absentis"	David Hughes	6:58
10.	"An Act Of Kindness"	David Hughes	3:40
11.	"Upon Moonlit Oceans"	David Hughes	7:47
12.	"Prisoner Of The Coral Deep"	David Hughes	11:31
Total length:			1:13:39

Collaborations

*Abominations of Yondo - Abominations of Yondo* (2007: Earthrid)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Black Ashes of Extinguished Suns"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	9:10
2.	"The Empire of the Necromancers"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	4:32
3.	"Abominations of Yondo"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	8:53
4.	"The Forest of Evil Cacti"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	7:23
5.	"The Weaver in the Vault"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	9:13
6.	"Commoriom"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	3:27
7.	"Sanctuary of Unbroken Columns"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	4:40
8.	"The Last Continent"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	5:10
Total length:			52:23

*Rebekkah's Cousin Silas - The Devil Came To Me* (2012: We Are All Ghosts)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Rachel - Above Adversity"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	22:48
2.	"The Rachel Suite Part 1"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	3:57
3.	"The Rachel Suite Part 2"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	7:24
4.	"The Rachel Suite Part 3"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	6:05
5.	"The Rachel Suite Part 4"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	4:54
6.	"The Rachel Suite Part 5"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	5:19
7.	"The Rachel Suite Part 6"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	3:47
8.	"The Rachel Suite Part 7"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	3:48
9.	"The Rachel Suite Part 8"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	3:42
10.	"The Rachel Suite Part 9"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	3:03
11.	"The Rachel Suite Part 10"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	4:07
12.	"The Rachel Suite Part 11"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	3:52
13.	"The Rachel Suite Part 12"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	3:48
14.	"The Rachel Suite Part 13"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	2:59
15.	"The Rachel Suite Part 14"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	2:42
16.	"The Rachel Suite Part 15"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	3:47
17.	"The Devil In The Details"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	7:28
18.	"A Gig Is A Gig"	David Hughes & Rebekkah Hilgraves	4:50
Total length:			1:38:20

*Abominations of Yondo - That Remote and Awful Twilight* (2012: Earthrid)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heliopause"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	5:56
2.	"Escape Velocity"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	5:56
3.	"Interstitial Lullaby"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	8:58
4.	"Schooners Beneath Two Suns"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	5:28
5.	"That Remote and Awful Twilight: Into Futurity"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	8:25
6.	"That Remote and Awful Twilight: Abominable Desolation"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	7:33
7.	"That Remote and Awful Twilight: The Peculiar Sensations of Time Travelling"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	3:36
Total length:			45:52

*Abominations of Yondo - Clandestine* (2012: Earthrid)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Million Mouths at Dawn"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	6:42
2.	"Hlo-Hlo Goes Hunting"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	2:34
3.	"Deep Thoughts"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	4:58
4.	"Bases and Borders"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	3:56
5.	"Clandestine"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	4:21
6.	"Dead Cable Communications"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	6:33
7.	"The Airbourne Plague"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	7:15
8.	"Murdered City"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	5:48
9.	"At Home with Drax Plunkett"	David Hughes & Kevin Busby	5:07
Total length:			45:52

Compilations

Elements 1 (2012, The Future Elements)
Space Rock: The Compilation (2012, Sound For Good Records)
all|is|calm 2012 (2012, Free Floating Music)
The BFW Christmas Album 2012 (2012, BFW Recordings)
I Heard Something In The Distance volume 10 (2013, BFW Recordings)
Midnight Radio Compilation 1 - Midnight Radio Compilation 8 (2013, Midnight Radio)
X-mas 2013 (2013, Petroglyph Music)
Touched (2013, Released on Bandcamp with proceeds going to Macmillan Cancer Support)

References

^ "John Peel Tracklistings". BBC Radio 1.
^ "Cousin Silas: Another Flask of Ballard". Ballardian.
^ ""East" – Cousin Silas". Synth Caresses.
^ "Seven questions...with Cousin Silas". headphoneaught.

External links

[1] "John Peel Tracklistings". BBC Radio 1.

[2] "Cousin Silas: Another Flask of Ballard". Ballardian.

[3] ""East" – Cousin Silas". Synth Caresses.

[4] "Seven questions...with Cousin Silas". headphoneaught.

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