Belbury Poly

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 Sharp on acoustic guitar and Jon Brooks on piano.

Belbury Poly
Background information
Genres
LabelsGhost Box
Associated actsThe Belbury Circle
The Focus Group
The Advisory Circle
WebsiteBelbury Poly on Ghost Box
MembersJim Jupp

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 1970s 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][2] as well as acknowledging a debt to the author Arthur Machen.[6][7] The name references a fictional institution, created by the author C.S. Lewis[8] in his novel That Hideous Strength.

Discography

Albums and EPs
Title Format Label Catalogue Number Year
Farmer's Angle3" CD-EPGhost BoxGBX0012004
The WillowsCD/LPGhost BoxGBX0032005
The Owl's MapCDGhost BoxGBX0072006
From an Ancient StarCDGhost BoxGBX0112009
Farmer's Angle (Revised Edition)CD/10"Ghost BoxGBX0142010
The Belbury TalesCD/LPGhost BoxGBX0162012
New Ways OutCD/LPGhost BoxGBX0242016

Seven Inch Singles
As Title Catalogue Number Year
Belbury Poly and Moon Wiring ClubStudy Series 01: Youth and RecreationGBX7012010
Belbury Poly and Mordant MusicStudy Series 03: Welcome to GodalmingGBX7032010
Belbury Poly and The Advisory CircleStudy Series 08: InversionsGBX7082012
Belbury Poly and SpacedogStudy Series 10: Message and MethodGBX7102013
Pye Corner Audio with Belbury PolyOther Voices 05: Machines are Obsolete/PathwaysGBX7152015

Remixes
Track Title Original Artist Album,Single,EP title Label Catalogue Number Year
Taxi Negro (Black Cab Mix)Tre-moloVisitasMil RecordsMRCD0092008
Ghost Office (Remixed by Belbury Poly)XylitolXylitol Music as played by Other Peopleself-released2010
Escape HatchBernard FevreThe Strange World of Bernard Fevre RemixesUniversalNJ90482010
And The Cuckoo Comes To BelburyThe Advisory CircleMind How You Go (Revised Edition)Ghost BoxGBX0132010
Lights And Offerings (Belbury Poly Mix)MirrorsThe White EPSkintSKINT216ID2011
Summerland (Belbury Poly Mix)John Foxx and the MathsThe Shape of ThingsMetamaticMETA29CD2011
If... (Belbury Poly Mix)Bill Ryder-JonesIf... RemixesDominoDS0612012
Hobby HorseThe Memory BandFurther NavigationsStatic CaravanVan 2722014

References
  1. "Belbury Poly on ploughman's lunches, prog rock and avoiding "Clarkson/Wakeman territory"". Factmag.com. 1 February 2012.
  3. "Cardboard Cutout Sundown: Interview with Jim Jupp". Jameshoodillustration.blogspot.com. 20 December 2010.
  4. Reynolds, Simon (15 October 2017). "Hauntology: Ghost Box label profile, Frieze magazine October 2005". Reynoldsretro.blogspot.com. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  5. Society of the spectral Archived 23 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Wire no. 276, November 2006
  6. "15 questions | Interview | Jim Jupp | Circle of Friends". 15questions.net.
  7. "15 questions | Interview | Jim Jupp | Circle of Friends". 15questions.net. Retrieved 4 December 2019.


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