Third full-length CD (and sixth overall official release) for the excellent solo project by Derrick Stembridge, handler and owner of Chicago-mail from the same Labile Records. Described as “a suitcase full of life + sounds, the experience of skipping stones across the waves of sound”, the new work environment best summarizes the tone of “Truth” (2006) and electronics more rich and varied tradition of following ” fällt “(2007), embracing influences and downtempo IDM wide-ranging scheme to rebuild without pre accomplice excellent work on the quality of the melodies and the depth of sounds chosen, enhanced by a truly excellent production. Certain vowels disappear sporadic raids of the past, while the rhythmic impact is most significant, reveal just how unwieldy and episodes full of changes – including rhythmic, with great delays – such as “Phonetic Reversal” and “August”, but the ability to Derrick goes beyond the mere construction of evocative soundscapes, capturing the various moods quite naturally, as in melancholic and darkeggiante “Rorschach”. The tracks flow smoothly and the work grows in intensity: the harmonious and kindly sumptuous “Broken Orchestra” reveals a compositional approach that guides and layers sounds like a conductor directs the musicians, where “Existence” is the more muscular side of Drifting In Silence, jitters between IDM and a groove that creeps under the skin. In the more than 10 minutes of “Tremer” the American artist reiterates his great talents as an arranger and sound manipulator, giving a pearl modular environment with great sophistication, including piano notes extremely rarefied but meaningful way, with “Fixer” the comeback groove, but the refined sounds and wonderful variations within each track are the real edge over our own, able to breathe due to the thickness at all times. Rounding out the work of the excellent environmental tones of the title track, another example of exquisite modulation of ethereal sounds and sparse. “Lifesounds” is undoubtedly the album of maturity for the American composer, and with it – and the attention of the finest palates – you clip the place it deserves in the elite sought more emotional and electronics.
- Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi
