Drifting In Silence released False Awakening on May 28, 2021 through Labile Records. It is a 7-track album with a total running time of about 39 minutes. The credits read: All songs written and recorded by Derrick Stembridge.
Inside the release
False Awakening is built around Carl Jung's dream theories, according to the notes. Field recordings and synthesizer pads form the base, with piano and guitar on top. The notes walk through several tracks: Myth of Memory opens calmly, Preconscious Mind features a stuttering synthesizer, Unknown Archetype scatters piano across heavy pads, and the album closes with Silent Patterns and the title track.
From the release notes
The notes on the album's Bandcamp page set the scene: "With False Awakening, Drifting In Silence offers a deep contemplation of Carl Jung's dream theories. Across the album, a pulsing, rhythmic collage of field recordings and synthesizer pads lay the foundation for meditative strains of piano and guitar. These reveries on our primordial nature feel as familiar as a dream can be, like an alien we're certain we've met before."
Later, the notes add: "The journey through the unconscious achieves its zenith and Drifting In Silence achieves a full portrait of what it feels like to dream."
Tracklist
- Silent Patterns (6:08)
- Myth of Memory (7:25)
- Unknown Archetype (5:04)
- The Shadow (4:31)
- Abstract Dreams (4:00)
- Preconscious Mind (6:33)
- False Awakening (5:46)
Running times are from Apple Music. Apple Music files it under ambient; the Bandcamp tags list ambient, atmospheric, experimental, new age and soundscape.
Release details
- Release date: May 28, 2021
- Label: Labile Records
- Copyright line on Apple Music: ℗ 2021 Labile Records Inc
- Format on Bandcamp: digital album
- Number of tracks: 7
- Total running time: 39:26
Credits
- driftinginsilence.com
- www.instagram.com/driftinginsilence/
- credits
- All songs written and recorded by Derrick Stembridge
- cover art photography by Alexander Bondar
About Drifting In Silence
Bandcamp lists Drifting In Silence in Raleigh, North Carolina. The artist bio there reads: "Drifting in Silence is the name of a longstanding ambient project undertaken by multi-instrumentalist and composer Derrick Stembridge." Other Labile Records releases from Drifting In Silence include Everything Beyond This Moment (August 2026), Where Waves Begin To Collide (April 2026), Fight or Flight (October 2025), Pathways II (October 2025), Beautiful Chaos of Truth (August 2025), Until Then (June 2025), North Sea (November 2024), Echos Beyond (September 2024), Winters Past (February 2024), Timeless (May 2023), As You Drift Away (May 2023), Clocks (April 2023), Kings Cross (March 2023) and Simulation (September 2022).
About Labile Records
Labile Records is an independent label based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its Bandcamp roster lists artists from across the United States and from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland. Recent label releases covered here include Neutrino Effect's They Shall Bring Death Upon Us and Subtlemanor's Never Alone.
Listen
- Bandcamp. False Awakening on Bandcamp, sold as a digital album, with more from the artist at Drifting In Silence on Bandcamp.
- Apple Music. Stream False Awakening on Apple Music.
Disclosure: Labile Records is owned by the publisher of Unknowndivide.
