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Genre: Ambient / Electronica
Location Aylesbury/Glastonbury, Un
Profile Views: 40795
Last Login: 1/25/2013
Member Since 6/28/2008
Website www.limegreenyellow.co.uk
Record Label Lime Green Yellow / Node / Time Theory / Mz'umf
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
....Welcome to our site..... Please don't be afraid to turn up your headphones...Originating in a collaboration between Lime Green Yellow label-mates Giles Jacobs and Simon Baker, Placement released their first album back in 2000... 'Our Man In High Places' was a mixture of studio and field recordings, that were layered into slabs of musical place building. The idea being, to try and form virtual representations of real or imagined situations in the listener's mind's eye. The Himalayan subject matter projected, as with radio, to be seen and felt in the imagination. Originally available via the Lime Green Yellow website and a select bunch of independent record shops the early copies soon sold out, so the decision was made to keep going... ..........Our Man In High Places [LGY 10 CD].. ..CD album featuring, From The Watergarden, Steep Forest, Glacier Path, Wire Suspension Bridge, See-Saw Ridge, Tibet's Mirror, Prayer Flags, The Lakes 'Sun' And 'Moon', A Passing Parade and Mother India. £3 or the equivalent worldwide via this site, or as a download in certain countries from www.gogoyoko.com/#/artist/Placement priced 3 euros....... .. Fresh enthusiasms followed and with them 'Marine Africa', a long term project designed to overfly the great continents wondrous rivers, lakes, swamps and adjoining seas. Deliberately composed to evoke both a light aircraft's eye view and a landed and magnified detail, these multi-layered and differently charactered tracks coalesce to suggest larger landscapes in an exploration of African water systems. Made at it's own pace and in parallel with other musics, this album colours much of Placement's current sound... ..........Marine Africa [LGY 019/node003].. ..Digital album featuring, Rainy Season, Madagascar Coast, Surface Water, Rufiji River, Light Aircraft Over Waves, Mai-Ndombe, Kyoga, Muddy Water Hole, Deep Blue Feathers, Nyasa, Coral Plumes, Volta, Tanganyika, Between Dune Forests, Glass Beach, Under The Cape. To download visit iTunes using the link below or find it on Amazon, emusic, etc..........Marine Africa via Node Records.com.... .. ..Watch this space for free downloads... There are specially written Placement tracks available for free on various virtual releases. To access these please click below their icons in the column on your left, they're all easy to download, or you can just give them a listen if you prefer... .. ..A note on friends.. We only add bands and artists that we think have some relevance to this site and people who genuinely appear to be friendly, so it really helps if you add a few words and we can see you're not just collecting. We listen to everyone we accept and so alongside a few regulars we do try to give room to as many new favorites as we can. If you should be included but then disappear, its not because we suddenly don't like you, its just that we're giving somebody else a go! Hopefully this policy will encourage friends and others to discover new things via this site... .. ....Node Radio is Node Records weekly radio show, going out between 9 pm and 11 pm central standard time every tuesday. You can listen and/or chat to the program via the link below and it's not unknown for odd Placementeer to drop in....... ...... .. -
Members
Giles Jacobs and Simon Baker play hardware synthesizers, sequencers and sound processors, plus tape machines, drum machines and digital recorders... They also use found-sounds, field recordings and other electric and non-electric instruments... The music is pre-planned, but largely automatic and not often over-dubbed, the instruments and preparations playing together in real time... .. ..Free downloads:.. ...... .. We Are Time Theory [tmth071]....Virtual compilation featuring the Placement track Flicker Fish... ..........Gray Surfaces.. .. An EP by Off Land, featuring a Placement remix of the track Slow Blow... .. .. .... Falter [tmth043]....Virtual compilation featuring the Placement track Between Announcements... ........Birth [Mz001]....Virtual compilation featuring the Placement track 33 On The Evening Tide... .. .. -
Influences
........ ..Things:.. Exploring and recording the landscape. Its expression in painting, film, photography, literature, sculpture and music. Also, cartography, land art, geology and climate. Our relationship with place... ........ ..People:.. Ansel Adams, Italo Calvino, Charles Darwin, Harry Flashman, Hannah Hoch, Henry Moore, Isaac Newton, Vaughan Oliver, Mark Rothko, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Smithson, William Turner... ........ ..Music:.. Autechre, Biosphere, Boards Of Canada, Bonzo Dog Band, David Bowie, Michael Brook, Harold Budd, Can, Cluster, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Claude Debussy, Em:t, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel, Jon Hassel, Thomas Koner, Kraftwerk, Bill Laswell, Russell Mills, Murcof, Net, Carl Nielsen, Pieter Nooten, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Pink Floyd, Ivo Watts-Russell, Eric Satie, Paul Schutze, Seefeel, Squinancywort, Stereolab, David Sylvian, Talking Heads, Talk Talk, The Durutti Column, This Mortal Coil, David Toop, Tortoise, Underworld, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Weird Terrain, Wire, Susumu Yokota... ........ ..Other:.. Far flung radio reports, the pioneering spirit, long distance cycle rides, back garden astronomy, natural and synthetic noise, civil and motive engineering, craft and design... ........ We remember Mark.. .. .......... .. -
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Placement
Placement are a duo from England who make a form of locational ambient music they call ''Landscape Music". Their work is largely themed geographically and the tracks can vary from very large scale impressionistic pieces to much more focused and intimate studies.
The pair play hardware synthesizers, sequencers and sound processors, plus tape machines, drum machines and digital recorders. They also use found-sounds, field recordings and other electric and non-electric instruments. The music is pre-planned, but largely automatic, with the instruments and preparations usually playing together in real time.
The group has issued five full scale albums...
'Pieces From A life' (2013). 10 fractured, grainy themes and hybrids, an unmapped flicker book searching for place.. Bandcamp
'Collected Locations' (2011). A FREE release featuring one off, rare and compilation tracks from the period 2008-2010, that's available from
..Bandcamp
'Geometry in Distant Agriculture' (with Adriva 2011). 'Music and textures gathered from and inspired by the Azov and Black sea regions of the Russian Steppe'. A CD with a complimentary download counterpart containing two extra tracks from Bandcamp
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'Marine Africa' (2009, reissued with two extra tracks 2012).
A FREE (or for donation) release that evokes overflights and remote landings amongst the great continents myriad water systems. Available from Bandcamp
'Our Man In High Places' (2000). 'Atmospheres inspired by the stories and diaries of Himalayan adventurers'. Which is available on CD for £3 (or the equivalent) from Bandcamp, or as a download costing €2.50 (or the equivalent) from Gogoyoko
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Alongside these the pair are nearing the completion of a third album and also regularly post free tracks with net labels (see below).
Free tracks
"Flicker Fish" On the compilation "We Are Time Theory"
"Between Announcements" On the compilation "Falter"
"33 On The Evening Tide" On the compilation "Birth"
"Wire Suspension Bridge (Edit)" Via our SoundCloud page
"All Man Made Watery Terrain" Via our SoundCloud page
"Fields Like Cells (original)" Via our SoundCloud page
Influences
Things
Exploring and recording the landscape. Its expression in painting, film, photography, literature, sculpture and music. Also cartography, land art, geology and climate. Our relationship with place. Far flung radio reports, the pioneering spirit, long distance cycle rides, back garden astronomy, natural and synthetic noise, civil and motive engineering, craft and design.
People
Ansel Adams, Italo Calvino, Freeman Dyson, Charles Darwin, Harry Flashman, Eric Gill, Hannah Hoch, Henry Moore, Isaac Newton, Vaughan Oliver, Oliver Postgate, Mark Rothko, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Smithson, William Turner.
Music
Autechre, Biosphere, Boards Of Canada, Bonzo Dog Band, David Bowie, Michael Brook, Cluster, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Claude Debussy, Durruti Column, Em:t, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Mushio Funazawa, Future Sound Of London, Peter Gabriel, Japan, Jon Hassel, Thomas Koner, Kraftwerk, Bill Laswell, Ekca Liena, Machinefabriek, Russell Mills, Net, Carl Nielsen, Peter Nooten, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Paul Schutze, Radiohead, Seefeel, Talking Heads, Talk Talk, David Toop, Tortoise, Underworld, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Weird Terrain, Wire, 4AD, π Dogx.
We remember Mark
http://soundcloud.com/placement
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