Belbury Poly
{{Short description|British musician}}
{{EngvarB|date=December 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{More citations needed|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Belbury Poly
| image = Belbury_Poly_-_JIm_Jupp_3.jpg
| genre = {{flatlist|
| current_members = Jim Jupp
| label = Ghost Box
| associated_acts = The Belbury Circle
The Focus Group
The Advisory Circle
| website = [https://ghostbox.co.uk/artists-page/belbury-poly/ Belbury Poly on Ghost Box]
}}
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 Cate 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 sound 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2012/02/01/belbury-poly-on-ploughmans-lunches-prog-rock-and-avoiding-clarksonwakeman-territory/|title=Belbury Poly on ploughman's lunches, prog rock and avoiding "Clarkson/Wakeman territory"|website=Factmag.com|date=1 February 2012}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/label-profile-ghost-box|title=Label Profile: Ghost Box | Clash Music Exclusive General|date=12 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512223426/http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/label-profile-ghost-box|archive-date=12 May 2012}}{{Cite web|url=http://jameshoodillustration.blogspot.com/2010/12/interview-with-jim-jupp.html|title=Cardboard Cutout Sundown: Interview with Jim Jupp|website=Jameshoodillustration.blogspot.com|date=20 December 2010}}
Jupp has spoken about Belbury Poly and the other artists on Ghost Box as sounding like the misremembered past of a parallel world,{{cite web|last=Reynolds|first=Simon|date=15 October 2017|title=Hauntology: Ghost Box label profile, Frieze magazine October 2005|url=http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2017/10/hauntology-ghost-box-label-frieze-2005.html|accessdate=26 October 2018|work=Reynoldsretro.blogspot.com}}[http://www.thewire.co.uk/back/2006_11.php Society of the spectral] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223035654/http://www.thewire.co.uk/back/2006_11.php|date=23 February 2007}}, The Wire no. 276, November 2006{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=15 questions | Interview | Jim Jupp | Circle of Friends|url=https://15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-jim-jupp/page-1/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206162804/http://15questions.net:80/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-jim-jupp/page-1/ |archive-date=6 February 2015 |access-date=2020-09-05|website=15questions.net}} as well as acknowledging a debt to the author Arthur Machen. The name references the fictional town of Belbury, created by the author C.S. Lewis{{Cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1554704.ece|title=The art of noise refined-Arts & Entertainment-Music-TimesOnline|date=1 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070401024045/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1554704.ece|archive-date=1 April 2007}} in his novel That Hideous Strength.
Biography
Jim Jupp has released EPs, singles and six albums on Ghost Box under the name of Belbury Poly, and has released a dark ambient album for the label under the moniker Eric Zann. He is also a member of The Belbury Circle along with Cate Brooks (of The Advisory Circle) and occasional collaborator, John Foxx{{Cite web|url=https://ghostbox.co.uk/|title=Home - Ghost Box}} In 2019 he co-wrote and produced the music and spoken word album Chanctonbury Rings with Justin Hopper and Sharron Kraus. He has recorded library tracks for KPM, BMG and Lo-Editions. He has remixed tracks for several artists including John Foxx and Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral). The track "The Willows" taken from the first Belbury Poly album of the same name was reworked by Paul Weller as "Earth Beat"{{Cite web|last=Stickler|first=Jon|title=Paul Weller Shares New Song Earth Beat From Upcoming Album 'On Sunset' - Stereoboard|url=https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/227796/9|access-date=2020-09-05|website=Stereoboard.com|language=en}} for his 2020 album On Sunset. The debut EP by Belbury Poly, Farmer’s Angle was included in an Electronic Sound magazine feature, A History of Electronic Music in 75 Records.{{Cite web|url=https://electronicsound.co.uk/product/issue-65-print-edition/|title=Issue 65 Print Edition | Out Of Stock – Electronic Sound|website=electronicsound.co.uk|access-date=5 July 2020|archive-date=21 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521052920/https://electronicsound.co.uk/product/issue-65-print-edition/|url-status=dead}}
Discography
=Albums and EPs=
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| Farmer's Angle | 3" CD EP/DL | Ghost Box | GBX001 | 2004 |
| The Willows | CD/LP/DL | Ghost Box | GBX003 | 2005 |
| The Owl's Map | CD/DL | Ghost Box | GBX007 | 2006 |
| From an Ancient Star | CD/DL | Ghost Box | GBX011 | 2009 |
| Farmer's Angle (Revised Edition) | CD/10"/DL | Ghost Box | GBX014 | 2010 |
| The Belbury Tales | CD/LP/DL | Ghost Box | GBX016 | 2012 |
| New Ways Out | CD/LP/DL | Ghost Box | GBX024 | 2016 |
| The Gone Away | CD/LP/DL | Ghost Box | GBX035 | 2020 |
{{Cite web|url=https://ghostbox.co.uk/catalogue/|title=Catalogue Archive - Ghost Box}}
=Singles=
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| Belbury Poly and Moon Wiring Club | Study Series 01: Youth and Recreation | 7"/DL | GBX701 | 2010 |
| Belbury Poly and Mordant Music | Study Series 03: Welcome to Godalming | 7"/DL | GBX703 | 2010 |
| Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle | Study Series 08: Inversions | 7"/DL | GBX708 | 2012 |
| Belbury Poly and Spacedog | Study Series 10: Message and Method | 7"/DL | GBX710 | 2013 |
| Pye Corner Audio with Belbury Poly | Other Voices 05: Machines are Obsolete/Pathways | 7"/DL | GBX715 | 2015 |
| Sharron Kraus with Belbury Poly | Other Voices 10: Something out of Nothing | 7"/DL | GBX720 | 2018 |
=Album appearances=
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| Ley Line{{Cite web|url=https://jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/album/ley-line|title=Ley Line, by Justin Hopper|website=Jackdaw Shivers Press}} | Justin Hopper | Bandcamp | self-released | 2014 |
| Shirley Inspired: A Tribute to Shirley Collins{{Cite web|url=https://shirleycollinsinspired.bandcamp.com/|title=Shirley Inspired, by Shirley Inspired...|website=Shirley Inspired...}} | Various Artists | Earth | EARTHLP003 | 2015 |
| Folklore of Plants Volume 1{{Cite web|url=http://www.folkloretapes.co.uk/product/folklore-of-plants|title=The Folklore of Plants Vol.I|first1=Folklore|last1=Tapes|website=Folklore Tapes}} | Various Artists | Folklore Tapes | 2017 | |
| Chanctonbury Rings | Justin Hopper, Sharron Kraus and Belbury Poly | Ghost Box | GBX033 | 2019 |
| Intermission | Various Artists | Ghost Box | GBXD008 | 2020 |
=Remixes=
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| Taxi Negro (Black Cab Mix) | Tremolo Audio | 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 |
| Broken Folk{{Cite web|url=https://testtransmissionarchive.blogspot.com/2018/11/out-now-broken-folk-10-inch-ep-and-digi.html|title=Test Transmission all things Keith Seatman and more: Out Now. Broken Folk 10 inch EP and Digi Release|first=Keith|last=Seatman|date=12 November 2018}} | Seatman and Powell | Broken Folk | KS Audio | KSA 008 | 2018 |
| Something Out of Nothing{{Cite web|url=https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/other-voices-42/|title=Sharron Kraus with Belbury Poly - Other Voices 10|website=Ghost Box}} | Sharron Kraus | Other Voices 10 | Ghost Box | GBX720 | 2018 |
=The Belbury Circle (Belbury Poly and [[The Advisory Circle]]) Discography=
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| Empty Avenues | 10" EP/CD EP/DL | Ghost Box | GBX019 | 2013 |
| Outward Journeys | CD/LP/DL | Ghost Box | GBX029 | 2017 |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132852/http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/artist/artist_belburypoly.htm Belbury Poly on Ghost Box]
- [http://thequietus.com/articles/12902-ghost-box-the-focus-group-interview Quietus Interview with Julian House on Ghost Box]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070401024045/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1554704.ece The Sunday Times article on contemporary electronic music, including Ghost Box and Belbury Poly]{{subscription required}}
- [https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2020/05/08/jim-jupp-intermission-and-ghost-box-records/ Interview with Jim Jupp by The Haunted Generation Blog]
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