Biography
There is more than 1 artist named Placement
(1) With a nod to the spirit of grimy 90’s bands reclaiming and celebrating guitar music, Placement lean into guitar you want to hum, with a rhythmic often spoken vocal that glues the groove, steering it through expansive storytelling, humour and the poetry of the everyday.
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Formed by a group of creatives from Kaurna Yarta/South Australia, Placement have spent the last few years honing their live sound, playing across the East & South coasts of Australia, and have quickly built a reputation for their ferocious live performance. With countless international supports, a busy touring schedule, and a debut album to be released in 2025, Placement are putting their noisy stamp on the Australian alternative scene.
(2) Placement make landscape or place themed music. Members Dash Tall and Giles Jacobs typically combine found sounds, field recordings and an array of instruments both electronic and otherwise, with tape effects and improvised playing. Their albums are largely themed geographically to evoke a particular area or feature and the tracks can vary from large scale impressionistic pieces to more focused and intimate studies.
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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. Natural and synthetic noise, civil and motive engineering, craft and design.
Physical releases and free downloads can be accessed via Bandcamp
http://placement.bandcamp.com/
Discography:
The group has released six albums since forming in 1997: 'Our Man In High Places' (Lime Green Yellow 2000), 'Marine Africa' (Node Records 2009 / Lime Green Yellow 2012), 'Collected Locations' (Lime Green Yellow 2011), 'Geometry In Distant Agriculture' with Adriva (Observatoire 2011), 'Pieces From A Life' (Lime Green Yellow 2013) and 'Collected Locations 2' (Lime Green Yellow 2016).
Note: There are at least two Placements. So some of the music and images you will find on this page relate to other artists.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.