What today I present/display to you is a certainly strange album. Many would say that he is ambient, other that is folk with a calm touch, is some would dare to denominate it easy listening. Case is that “Ladderdown”, that is as east album is called, is a very fine work that nonpodiamos to let save in Dj San Roman. We are speaking of Drifting in Silence, that in fact is Derrick Stembridge, a versatile type that is in charge of everything what there is behind this compact one so that sounds as well as it sounds. From the guitar to the keyboards, from the low one to the more delicate electronic adjustments, Derrick is a teacher creating musical atmosphere scenes characterized by a rich sonorous variety. Mixing pads calmer of people like Stars of the Lid or Winston Samoak, in addition we can here contemplate reefs of guitars that transladan really us to an old lost house in the middle of some highway “to no side” in the middle of some Texan desert. The problem of the album is the continuous unexpected changes. And eye because I speak of changes of 180º, not of candies and precise evolutions to moved sounds more. Of this form we can be listening to a calm and adorable “Between the Lines”, very similar to some cut of the Treasure album that recently we commented here, happen to hear a “Of two Minds” that really does not have much sense in an album of this cut. In any case, throughout the compact one we can find other subjects that are able to annul this bad flavor of mouth. An Eleven example is “it Began”, in a perfect inner exercise search of the tranquillity by means of a few chords of guitar on a base ambient, or “Process of Now” that is still a happy conclusion for a calm and relaxed disc. A good album that can give some surprise us as far as the form, but that contains several tracks that will make us enjoy like children.
