Drifting In Silence released Place In Time in 2013 through Labile Records. It is a 6-track album with a total running time of about 41 minutes.
Inside the release
According to the release notes, Place In Time carries over ideas from the drum-heavy structures of earlier Stembridge releases such as Facewithin and Ladderdown, but folds them into the background. On some tracks, including Never, the percussion returns transformed into ambient textures and tonal layers rather than beats. The notes single out the closing track, Perfection, as a summary of the album's ideas and of the project's earlier work.
From the release notes
The notes on the album's Bandcamp page set the scene: "Place In Time is a rich textural melange of timbres and carefully implied (but never overstated) melodies. Stembridge manages to bring to it lessons learned in the complex and intricate drum kit structures employed in recent releases such as Facewithin and Ladderdown. A close listen reveals, within the overlapping layers, the fine beat divisions that these danceable releases were noted for."
Later, the notes add: "The percussion serves to leaven the ambient loaf, however, and the result is never jarring. The closing track, Perfection, summarizes the album's musical thoughts, together with previous Drifting In Silence work, in a sonic landscape that brings to mind a drifting mechanical ocean."
Tracklist
- Balance (6:58)
- Vital (7:11)
- Never (6:02)
- Place in Time (5:58)
- Leaving (6:19)
- Perfection (8:27)
Running times are from Apple Music. Apple Music files it under electronic; the Bandcamp tags list ambient, atmospheric, experimental, new age and soundscape.
Release details
- Release year: 2013
- Label: Labile Records
- Copyright line on Apple Music: ℗ 2013 Labile Records
- Format on Bandcamp: digital album
- Number of tracks: 6
- Total running time: 40:54
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), In the Still (September 2025), Beautiful Chaos of Truth (August 2025), Until Then (June 2025), Where Silence Takes Flight (March 2025), North Sea (November 2024), Echos Beyond (September 2024), Winters Past (February 2024), Timeless (May 2023), As You Drift Away (May 2023) and Clocks (April 2023).
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. Place In Time on Bandcamp, sold as a digital album, with more from the artist at Drifting In Silence on Bandcamp.
- Apple Music. Stream Place In Time on Apple Music.
Disclosure: Labile Records is owned by the publisher of Unknowndivide.
