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Roy Mattson commented on Placement's blog post Passing storms"This is a subject that has hounded me for many years. There seems to be so many bad things in the world. It could be that there is; or that is what our minds gravitate to as an adaptive/protective mechanism; or the media sensationalizes it. Whatever…"
Dan Corkery / Ambient Mechanics commented on Placement's blog post Passing storms"I don't wish to hijack Placement's thread in any way, but know that you mention it, it seems kind of funny in a strange way that I know loads of people online who write and speak openly on this topic..yet I can count on one hand those…"
rockin' boteyes cast down commented on Placement's blog post Passing storms
"Good point, Dan - our material so-called advancements often take us away from our true nature. Of course, we can make proper good use of many of them - we just usually can't be bothered. And many of them are flat-out harmful to the planet and…"
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Primarily known for our 'Landscape Music', Placement are a duo from England who make untypical and adventurous recordings, ranging from large scale impressionistic pieces to much more focused and intimate melodic studies.
Linked below from our Soundcloud page
A selection from our new album 'Pieces From A Life'
Pieces From A Life (selected tracks) by Placement
Tracks from our resent collaborative album 'Geometry In Distant Agriculture'
Geometry In Distant Agriculture (tracks and proto-tracks from the a... by Placement
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- Recording/Writing Music, Painting, Photography, Design, Writing
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- http://www.myspace.com/placement
Formed in 1997 the group typically combine found sounds, field recordings and an array of instruments both electronic and otherwise, with tape effects, prepared systems and improvised playing. Their albums are largely themed geographically to evoke a particular area or feature and the tracks themselves can vary from large scale impressionistic pieces to more focused and intimate studies.
The pair have issued five full length albums
'Pieces From A Life' (2013) An unmapped flicker book searching for place.. A partially controlled 'jumble music' operating somewhere between composed and assembled A CD and download from http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/pieces-from-a-life
'Geometry In Distant Agriculture' (2011) Music and textures gathered from and inspired by the Azov and Black sea regions of the Russian Steppe. A CD and download from http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/geometry-in-distant-agriculture
'Collected Locations' (2011) A free release featuring one-off, rare and compilation tracks from the period 2008 - 2010. A free download, or special edition CD from http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/collected-locations
'Marine Africa' (2009) 'Overflights and remote landings amongst the great continents myriad water systems'. A free download from http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/marine-africa
'Our Man In High Places' (2000) 'Atmospheres inspired by the stories and diaries of Himalayan adventurers'. A CD and download from http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/our-man-in-high-places
There is also a mini-album by group member Giles Jacobs associated with the project..
'Very Small Science' (2011)
A 25 minute suite intended as part of the Placement catalogue, exploring as it does the landscape of small discoveries.. A free download from http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/very-small-science
Alongside these additional free downloads regularly feature with net labels such as Time Theory and over on our Soundcloud page http://soundcloud.com/placement
I hope you will enjoy what fraction appears here!
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Passing storms
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 4:00am 7 Comments 0 Likes
What to react to in a world where there's bad news for someone somewhere everyday..? Such terrible scenes in Oklahoma - so much so, that I find I'm compelled to express my genuine sadness and sympathy, but then what of those in Syria? I suppose realistically it's not the division of compassion that counts, but that we feel at all - be that for the many or the one.
Rest easy Ray Manzarek…
ContinueFrom the Bullrushes
Posted on October 2, 2012 at 4:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
On the far side of the river, past where the scruffy thickets and woods line part-kept fields and leafy meanders. The floodplain stretches away low and flat where once it was farmland, before eventually rising in a series of man made lagoons that stand guard to a new housing project on the northern bank.
Each lagoon is similar in nature, with neatly mowed earthworks banked all around and a pretty ditch or brook running through it's sheltered interior, all planted with bullrushes…
Clinkety-clink
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:57am 0 Comments 0 Likes
An early start reveals a milk float. I had't actually been aware that one called here in the little square, but there it was as I stood at the kitchen window this morning - it's milkman hefting away two little baskets of bottles up past a neighbours hedge with a satisfying clinkety-clink..…
ContinueDifferent desires
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 2:32am 0 Comments 0 Likes
No cooing, but plenty of billing - the ducks are getting swoony so it must be spring..
There's a particular pair of lovebirds by the post box on the corner - the drake mooning like a teenager after a lean chatty bird, who has him parading up and down between the Her Majesty's royal mail and a slightly wonky cherry tree.
Meanwhile Charley the cat looks on with feigned disinterest, delicately cleaning his paws, rather like a butcher might polish his knives..
Comment Wall (11 comments)
- At 5:44am on May 9, 2011,
tintoy botjkn said… - Get strap locks on that tele! Hope repairs go well.
- At 6:00pm on February 18, 2011,
.: rM bot :.Aaron Jasinski said… - Thanks Giles, glad to put you on my radar as well. Will be watching... er, listening rather. :)
- At 3:41pm on February 18, 2011,
tintoy botjkn said… - You're welcome - I look forward to hearing your music soon!
- At 2:45pm on February 18, 2011,
.: rM bot :.Aaron Jasinski said… - listened to your Collected Locations album on bandcamp. really enjoyable. I liked the field recordings and how you used them as launching points for the instrumentation layered on top. Reminds me of some stuff I did back in the day. I gotta get back to that stuff.
- At 9:05am on February 18, 2011,
tintoy botjkn said… Member of the Day! February 19, 2011.
- At 8:51am on February 5, 2011,
.: rM bot :.Bob Ohrum said… - Welcome to rM !!
- At 8:58am on February 4, 2011,
.: rM bot :.Michael Brückner said… Thank You, Giles.
Well, actually at th moment things aren't exactly running smoothe in my life - as You perhaps remember, I earn my living as a designer/printer in a rather small printing shop (a humble family business...), and how shall I put it...? It has never been BIG business, but at the moment it rather looks like the crisis is finally going to devour us :-( so I‘m bussy in with struggeling for...ah, "survival" is a bit exaggerated, but, that direction, somehow. Which doesn't leave much time and space, nor power and creativity, for anything else - music and networking, for example.
Still, all hope is not lost, and we could also be lucky in the end.
So send me some good wishes, if You like (they won't be wasted...) ;-)
Cheers and have a great weekend,
Michael
- At 8:10am on February 4, 2011,
.: rM bot :.Michael Brückner said… Hi, Giles!
Friendly faces, indeed :-)
Wonderful to be connected to You, again (especially with all those MySpace troubles at the moment...).
I hope all is looking bright for You!
Peace + good wishes,
Michael
- At 11:02am on February 3, 2011,
rockin' boteyes cast down said… - Welcome Giles - nice track!
- At 9:08am on February 3, 2011,
tintoy botjkn said… - "Not making a brick, but layering clay..." - nice extension of the Oblique Strategy of the day!
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