False Awakening, by Drifting In Silence

False Awakening

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1.	Silent Patterns 06:07	buy track
2.	Myth of Memory 07:24	buy track
3.	Unknown Archetype 05:03	buy track
4.	The Shadow 04:30	buy track
5.	Abstract Dreams 04:00	buy track
6.	Preconscious Mind 06:32	buy track
7.	False Awakening 05:46	buy track

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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. This careful study of Jung’s theories is a profound collection of sonic textures that are at varying times reminiscent of Vangelis, Robert Rich, or Max Richter.

The calming ambience of “Myth of Memory” beguiles you into tranquility before the album slips down into the unknowable abstract. The enigmatic synthesizer of “Preconscious Mind” stutters forward as if trying to piece together the disparate parts of a dream. Meanwhile, “Unknown Archetype” practices the art of total fragmentation, the mellow piano scattered in a sonic storm of brooding synthesized pads. As the album reaches its close with “Silent Patterns” and “False Awakening,” a certain clarity is achieved, like the haze of a trance falling away. The journey through the unconscious achieves its zenith and Drifting In Silence achieves a full portrait of what it feels like to dream.
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released May 28, 2021

All songs written and recorded by Derrick Stembridge.

cover art photography by Alexander Bondar.

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