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The Studio Dog - a Border Collie also known as Moss, was my constant friend and ‘studio assistant’ until passing away in March '21 at the grand old age of (about) 14. I say “about 14”, because Moss was a rescue dog who had made his way over the Irish sea with the Border Collie Trust, following goodness knows what abuse had left him both physically and psychologically damaged.

It took many months to gain his trust, but after a couple of runaways and a spell of literally running around the walls of the living room, he gradually began to venture from his hiding places at dinner times - and then finally, after a long session of me laying motionless on my back in the garden, he got up the courage to emerge from behind some shrubs and lick my head! From there he blossomed, investing the most unimaginable trust and love - in his new family, and in his new life. 

This track is from The Studio Dog, an album about Moss and that journey. It’s a requiem I suppose, but one entirely recorded during his final days - with him gently declining beside me. It was complied the morning after he passed away and I’ve left it entirely untouched thereafter, with no time fixes, or overdubs - save for the addition of a few pre-planned field recordings. 
Meadows forever!

This track includes the Freesound sample 'St. John Cathedral female choir 001.wav' by Klankbeeld

Moss Dreamcloud

From the new album SCALE 
by Placement’s Giles Jacobs

Hear the album here especially if you like
Music For Films / Substrata / Sowiesoso
 https://placement.bandcamp.com/album/scale

Rock Pools

From COLLECTED LOCATIONS Vol II
free download: placement.bandcamp.com/album/collect…-locations-ii
This track also features on the album 'Child's Hill', by Kuroi Mori. http://www.kuroimori.com/

Cave Of Wires (by Placement & Kuroi Mori)

Intended for the long gestating "The Pigs, It Was As If They Were Singing Me To Sleep" album - Antonio de Braga joins the shenanigans..

Pink Mischief (by Giles Jacobs)

“I'm growing more and more fond of imperfection. This isn't some knuckle dragging reaction against technology, but rather I just find the humanity of error engaging - and the accidents it causes often more interesting than perfection.
Maybe it's because of this, that I'm repeatedly drawn to earlier electronica, where imperfections were an unavoidable by-product of playing, bodging and stitching-together electronic compositions using tape loops and delays.
This is why this track - and in fact the entirety of the new album it features on "Walk-in Diorama" sounds as it does. It was all played by hand, with no sequencing, click-tracks or time fixes. Just played and combined using 4 stereo tracks.
People have mentioned it reminds them of Cluster or Harmonia. I did not set out to do this, but it seems, this way of working results not only in a feel, but also in a style, a time or even in a place. I find that interesting in itself." /Giles

Walk-in Diorama

In The Partial Shade Of Tall Trees

Scratch n' sniff folktronica for rural romantics everywhere..

Life In Tin Houses (by Giles Jacobs)

A new track - as is our Christmas habit, but this time remembering Nelson Mandela one year since his passing.
At that time a collaboration was just surfacing with friend Wolfgang Merx and ‘subject to the moment’ this project would turn to reflect Mr Mandela and particularly his fortitude whilst incarcerated on Robben Island. Where partial solitude and afternoons in the 'stone yard' failed to dim his inspirational even handedness..
A free EP will be released in the new year..
We are grateful to those listed below for the use of the following Freesound samples on this recording; uzbazur for Stones sound.wav, Soundmary for Windy day.mp3 and Inchadney for doing them cobblestones.WAV - also used is some looped ANC crowd singing that was recorded directly from an unidentified radio program.

The Same Clouds Everywhere (by Giles Jacobs & Wolfgang Merx)

We're very proud to announce the release of I Have fought! 
A 7 track EP by by Giles Jacobs & Wolfgang Merx
Available on CD and download from: 
https://placement.bandcamp.com/album/i-have-fought

What's it about?
Myself & Wolfgang wanted to explore the possibility of working 'together in separate studios' - but without lots of multi-track files. Meaning that once a recording was handed from one to the other, it could only be altered as a whole - for example by adding more sounds or manipulating everything at once, but not re-worked in bits. So in other words, these recordings are a true overlay, rather than ‘all mixed up’!

"We like the immediacy of this approach and by extension, we’ve not tinkered with the results by removing any recording faults or clicks, or otherwise interfering with Antonio de Braga’s delicious drumming! Similarly our inspiration for the music was direct and uncomplicated, with the sad passing of Mr Nelson Mandela coinciding with the project’s outset, we found our reflections settled very readily on his compassion and fortitude.


Target (by Giles Jacobs & Wolfgang Merx)

A song from one of several unreleased solo things - whether it will ever be released I can't say...



Here Is Your Sleep (by Giles Jacobs)

Here is the new stuff.. From Placement's upcoming album Chinese Trains. The bullet train as daydream projectile... Music by Dash Tall & Giles Jacobs, drum loops thanks to the wondrous Antonio de Braga.

Please use headphones or decent stereo equipment! 

The Distance Travelled In A Painted Cloud

From COLLECTED LOCATIONS Vol II
free download: placement.bandcamp.com/album/collect…-locations-ii

A little while back my name ended up in a hat for a project of collaborations - the lucky-dip chose Man Meets Bear, and yesterday was the first clear day for recording. 
So it was into The Little Studio - flicking on the red lights & scanning the news feed... David Bowie had died. 

All day I just kept recording. This was the result. 

Between Boxing Day And Goodbye <Thin White Duke>  (by Placement & Man Meets Bear)

Okay folks, as one or two might know we've a bit of a tradition of releasing a track about now, so I guess that continues for another year.. Our very best wishes for the winter shindigs..

This track contains the Freesound (and London Sound Survey) recording 'Elephant and Castle preacher .wav' by 'spudsonic'

The new album

Retail Spiritual

An initial version of a collaborative track with Transmission 13 ( http://soundcloud.com/transmission-13 )

Pictures Of Lakes And Buildings (with Transmission 13)

A NEW album by Placement's 'ancestor band' Curtains. Rescued and restored from the original tapes, Measure And Make was the band's last album, but it has never been heard - until now... https://curtainsartpop.bandcamp.com/

Guadeloupe Carnival (by Curtains)

An interim version produced for the 'Geometry In Distant Agriculture ' album with Adriva.

Under Satellites (first interpretation - by Placement & Adriva)

A track intended for an album provisionally entitled 'The Pigs, It Was As If They Were Singing Me To Sleep..' 
A 'music story' about a child who's family is forced to leave their farm and her continued dream-life with the places and animals that have come to define her world. 
The piece is one of many that are finally falling into place..

In This Good Acre (by Giles Jacobs)

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Placement make a form of locational music they call ''Landscape Music".&#13;
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The pair 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.&#13;
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Placement have issued six full length albums, plus two associated album &#13;
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'SCALE' (2023)
A new album by Placement’s Giles Jacobs
‘From a dog lying on its side, to 1 au. An album inspired by the discovery of an old photograph, this album explores our relationship with Scale from human size to the distance from the Earth to the Sun. 
https://placement.bandcamp.com/album/scale

'Prototypes For Placement - Vale Recordings Vol.1' (2020) By Placement's Giles Jacobs
Music designed to seed future Placement tracks. Specifically those for a project inspired by the geology and topography of 'two vales’. The vale of Avalon in Somerset and the vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. This edition explores the latter of these home vales, evoking the landscape and underlying fabric of Aylesbury Vale.
https://placement.bandcamp.com/album/prototypes-for-placement-vale-recordings-vol-1

'Collected Locations 2' (2016) &#13;
A free album updating Placement's original Collected Locations album with more rarities and collaborations featuring Man Meets Bear, Kuroi Mori and Off Land.. Available from <a href="https://placement.bandcamp.com/album/collected-locations-ii" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>&#13;
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'Pieces From A Life' (2013) "An unmapped flicker-book searching for place.." A CD and associated download available from <a href="http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/geometry-in-distant-agriculture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>&#13;
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'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 and associated download available from <a href="http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/geometry-in-distant-agriculture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>&#13;
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'Collected Locations' (2011)&#13;
A FREE release featuring one-off, rare and compilation tracks from the period 2008 - 2010, that's available for download from <a href="http://placement.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>&#13;
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'Marine Africa' (2009)&#13;
- reissued with extra tracks (2012)&#13;
Currently FREE (or for a donation) over at <a href="http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/marine-africa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> this release evokes 'overflights and remote landings amongst the great continents myriad water systems'. &#13;
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'Our Man In High Places' (2000)&#13;
'Atmospheres inspired by the stories and diaries of Himalayan adventurers'. A CD and associated download from <a href="http://placement.bandcamp.com/album/our-man-in-high-places" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> 
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