Drifting In Silence released Where Waves Begin To Collide on April 15, 2026 through Labile Records. It is an 8-track album with a total running time of about 36 minutes.
Inside the release
The notes describe Where Waves Begin To Collide as music that moves like open water, with layers of tone and texture overlapping and drifting apart. They say it starts darker and gradually opens toward air and light, and they frame it as ambient music shaped by listening and by the people who influenced how Derrick Stembridge hears sound.
From the release notes
The notes on the album's Bandcamp page set the scene: "Where Waves Begin To Collide is a new release from Drifting In Silence, the long running ambient project of composer Derrick Stembridge. It exists in a space shaped by listening, patience, and the quiet understanding that sound can carry meaning words never could. The music moves like open water. Broad tides of tone and texture overlap and disperse, forming an immersive field that feels expansive and unforced."
Later, the notes add: "Nothing demands attention. It unfolds slowly, the way memory and feeling rise to the surface. What begins darker and expansive gradually opens. Beneath it all, a steady current guides the direction forward. Not force. Not urgency. Just presence. A trust in sound itself and in the people who shaped the way it was heard."
Tracklist
- The Moment Everything Became Clear (5:38)
- Fight or Flight (3:07)
- Where Waves Begin to Collide (feat. Derrick Stembridge) (3:57)
- All We See (4:48)
- Beneath the Current (feat. Derrick Stembridge) (4:42)
- In The Still (4:34)
- Moving Forward Into (4:24)
- A Different Sky (4:56)
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: April 15, 2026
- Label: Labile Records
- Copyright line on Apple Music: ℗ 2026 Labile Records
- Format on Bandcamp: digital album
- Number of tracks: 8
- Total running time: 36:06
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), 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), Simulation (September 2022) and Pathways (February 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. Where Waves Begin To Collide on Bandcamp, sold as a digital album, with more from the artist at Drifting In Silence on Bandcamp.
- Apple Music. Stream Where Waves Begin To Collide on Apple Music.
Disclosure: Labile Records is owned by the publisher of Unknowndivide.
