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Bio
The Band
At the helm of Drifting in Silence, Derrick Stembridge brings forth music that incorporates groove rhythms, instrumental riffs and concrete sounds, inventing an ambient sensation of movement through regions of light and shadow. His CD, Truth, ranges from meditative tone poems to relaxing easy chair grooves. Developing his ideas further in Ladderdown, Stembridge adds sonic depth and timing textures. His latest, Fallto, takes his previously-explored territory one step further, adding edgy vocal textures and punchy rhythms that carry the listener on a tour de force of aural experience.
The Sound
"Dancing washes of synths and gentle, percolating percussion... (Stembridge) employs every beat and tick as compositional elements, most finely illustrated on the sailing 'Apart.'" - Aaron Ashley / XLR8R (USA)
Drifting in Silence Music
Press
XLR8R Magazine/ Drifting in Silence – Truth
While bands like Asobi Seksu and Serena-Maneesh are busydoing updates on 4AD’s shogaze contingent, Nashville’s Derrick Stembridge, an admitted fan of Brian Eno and Harold Budd, takes it upon himself to give the label’s more gauzy, ethereal sound a second look. On his sophomore release, Truth, Stembridge wraps his odes to Robin Guthrie and the like in dancing washes of syths and gentle, percolating percussion (all played by Stembridge himself). Eschewing the rhythm-making effects of his drum machine, he instead employs every beat and tick as compositional elements, most finely illustrated on the sailing “Apart” – Aaron Ashley XLR8R Issue 100 Sept. 2006 4.9.2007 8:28 pm
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