Belbury Poly

Belbury Poly
Background information
Genres
Labels Ghost Box
Associated acts The Belbury Circle
The Focus Group
The Advisory Circle
Website Belbury Poly on Ghost Box
Members Jim Jupp

Belbury Poly is the studio band of Ghost Box Records co-founder Jim Jupp. Jupp is the main composer and producer and also plays synth, keyboards and guitar. Other members are session musicians, that have included: Christopher Budd on bass and lead guitar, Jim Musgrave on drums, James Allen on drums, David Sharpe on acoustic guitar and Jon Brooks on piano.

Sound

Working with analogue electronics and wide range of unusual instrumentation and more recently supported by session players on drums and guitars, Belbury Poly's soundworld is characterised as a kind of upbeat, electronic and rustic prog rock. Influences, range from old library music and TV soundtracks to keyboard driven 70s prog rock, folk and Krautock.[1][2][3]

Jupp has spoken about Belbury Poly and the other artists on Ghost Box as sounding like the misremebered past of a parallel world,[4][5][6] as well as acknowledging a debt to the author Arthur Machen.[7] The name references a fictional institution, created by the author C.S. Lewis[8] in his novel That Hideous Strength.

Discography

Albums & EPs

Title Format Label Catalogue Number Year
Farmer's Angle 3" CD-EP Ghost Box GBX001 2004
The Willows CD/LP Ghost Box GBX003 2005
The Owl's Map CD Ghost Box GBX007 2006
From an Ancient Star CD Ghost Box GBX011 2009
Farmer's Angle (Revised Edition) CD/10" Ghost Box GBX014 2010
The Belbury Tales CD/LP Ghost Box GBX016 2012
New Ways Out CD/LP Ghost Box GBX024 2016

Seven Inch Singles

As Title Catalogue Number Year
Belbury Poly and Moon Wiring Club Study Series 01: Youth and Recreation GBX701 2010
Belbury Poly and Mordant Music Study Series 03: Welcome to Godalming GBX703 2010
Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle Study Series 08: Inversions GBX708 2012
Belbury Poly and Spacedog Study Series 10: Message and Method GBX710 2013
Pye Corner Audio with Belbury Poly Other Voices 05: Machines are Obsolete/Pathways GBX715 2015

Remixes

Track Title Original Artist Album,Single,EP title Label Catalogue Number Year
Taxi Negro (Black Cab Mix) Tre-molo Visitas Mil Records MRCD009 2008
Ghost Office (Remixed by Belbury Poly) Xylitol Xylitol Music as played by Other People self released 2010
Escape Hatch Bernard Fevre The Strange World Of Bernard Fevre Remixes Universal NJ9048 2010
And The Cuckoo Comes To Belbury The Advisory Circle Mind How You Go (Revised Edition) Ghost Box GBX013 2010
Lights And Offerings (Belbury Poly Mix) Mirrors The White EP Skint SKINT216ID 2011
Summerland (Belbury Poly Mix) John Foxx And The Maths The Shape of Things Metamatic META29CD 2011
If... (Belbury Poly Mix) Bill Ryder-Jones If... Remixes Domino DS061 2012
Hobby Horse The Memory Band Further Navigations Static Caravan Van 272 2014

References

  1. ↑ Belbury Poly Interview, FACT magazine
  2. ↑ Ghost Box Label feature, CLASH magazine
  3. ↑ Interview with Jim Jupp, Cardboard Cutout Sundown
  4. ↑ Society of the spectral, The Wire no. 276, November 2006
  5. ↑ Interview with 15 Questions
  6. ↑ Label Profile with Clash Magazine
  7. ↑ page on Ghost Box Music site
  8. ↑ The art of noise refined, The Times

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, March 30, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.