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Geometry In Distant Agriculture

by Placement & Adriva

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Placement & Adriva : Geometry In Distant Agriculture

Music and textures gathered from and inspired by the Azov and Black sea regions of the Russian Steppe.


Made at a distance, this collaborative album grew out of a shared enthusiasm for layered sound. Typically both Placement & Adriva generate landed, or situational pieces and on these recordings this common ground is exploited to build hybrids of stacked sonic washes, treated guitars and closely intermeshed fieldtrack.

With the subject matter settled by Adriva's intimate recordings of the local Russian Steppe. The direction of travel commonly saw Placement offering proto-tracks inspired by Google Earth's images of the region. These pieces would then go on to be interpreted, or 'grounded' by Adriva, as fieldtrack was added or combined, in a process similar to pulling focus from a wide cinematic shot...

When viewed from space, the vast symmetrical fields and underlying geological fractures of the Russian Steppe take on the appearance of a fabulously detailed patchwork quilt, or the intricacies of a plant's cells when viewed under a microscope. The impression is grand and lofty, but ultimately it's no more revealing than the murmur and touch of the human experience. Thus what is aimed at here is a combination of perspectives - a glimpsed integration of vantage points.


1. Under Satellites

2. Stones And Soil

3. Fields Like Cells

4. Where The Road Meets The Sky

5. Geometry In Distant Agriculture

6. Steppe Canvas


Extra tracks (download only)

7. Under Satellites (first interpretation - edit)

8. Stones And Soil (handover version)

Total running time; CD 45.20 / download 57.44


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Adriva www.myspace.com/541657541

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released June 22, 2011

All tracks written, performed & produced by Placement & Adriva, except tracks 1 & 8 which were written and performed by Placement. Provisional recordings made and mixed at The Little Studio, England. Field recordings made in the region of the Azov and Black seas, Russia 2010. Cover photograph by Giles Jacobs (after an original artwork by Alison Jones), all other sleeve design and photography by Denis Shapovalov. This CD was manufactured for OBS and limited to 400 copies. It is issued here with it's digital counterpart by The Lime Green Yellow Recording Company who can be contacted via the Placement Facebook page link featured above.

This album contains the following sounds from freesound:
Sound 1; Piano Sculpture ambient.aif by James Longley. Sound 2; Choir c.wav by ERH. Sound 3; Kadel 3.wav by ERH.

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Placement's 'Landscape Music' combines found sounds, fieldtrack and an array of instruments both electronic and otherwise, with tape effects, prepared systems and improvised playing

Our albums are often 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..
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