a r t i s t : Belbury Poly
t i t l e : From an Ancient Star
d a t e : 2009
l a b e l : Ghost Box (GBX011)
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : Feb/2009
t r a c k s : 13
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 64,10 MB
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The music of Belbury Poly is, by turns joyous, naive and at
times shot through with panic terror or supernatural wonder.
Like parallel world TV soundtracks or nostalgia for an
imaginary past.
http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/belburypoly.htm
I always get excited when we get a new release from Ghost Box
after the Advisory Circle album blew my tits off (in separate
directions). I like this record. The opener (Belbury Poly
Logotone) kicks off somewhere between Tangerine Dream and John
Barry with its tinkly spy style keyboards and drifting proggy
synthness. It's a great way to start a record and it brings
you in nicely for what's on offer. Lots of retro spacey
sounding synth noises mixed up with elements of folk and prog.
It's well 70's and a lot of it sounds like theme music to long
forgotten cult TV classics. One for you nostaligists to get
all excited about as you're tinkling with your Ralf Harris
Stylophone. Stick with it anyway as it grows on repeated
listens. Nice!!
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/104470
The Ghost Box label exorcizes another stunningly realised
release from the mind of Jim Jupp aka Belbury Poly with his
fourth full length album of hauntological tropes and queasy
listening. Since Simon Reynolds borrowed Jacques Derrida's
term 'Hauntology' to describe the music and aesthetic of the
Ghost Box label, a scene of related sonics has calcified
around the label heads Jupp and Julian House (aka The Focus
Group), drawing connections between the somnambulent
psychoacoustics of The Caretaker, Philip Jeck or the Mordant
Music label. Belbury Poly's sonic style differs from both
aforementioned artists and label, with his work more
interested in the lost electronic soundtracks to British
public information films, or the the idents for early
morning/late night TV for schools and cheap hammer horror
style themes, with respectful nods to the work of the
Radiophonic Workshop or the tweetronica of Raymond Scott and
the type of unarchived gems plucked from obscurity by Jonny
Trunk's reissue label. Jupp's music is entirely faithful to
the sounds he and the rest of us have absorbed by unconscious
osmosis over our lifetimes, perfectly encapsulating that eerie
feeling of Deja Vu you may encounter when listening to
something like SAW 85-92, or Burial's self titled debut,
sounds triggering thoughts and memories with the same power as
an oddly foisty smell which can immediately transport the
recipient to some vaguely familiar place or time in the past.
This is a whole lot more than mere nostalgia though, and more
representative of the feedback loop which much music nowadays
feels trapped inside, with Jupp's sounds channelling some
emotional resonance reverberating through it all. On
headphones this album locks you into a whole other place
imbibed with a darkly tinted innocence, and comforting
atmosphere all of it's own. Just squint your ears and you're
there. Incredible.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=157585
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01-Belbury Poly Logotone [00:09]
02-The Hidden Door [05:08]
03-From an Ancient Star [05:00]
04-A Year and a Day [04:56]
05-The All at Once Club [03:47]
06-Time Scale [02:14]
07-Adventures in a Miniature Landscape [05:30]
08-Widdershins [03:21]
09-A Great Day Out [04:23]
10-Clockwork Horoscope [03:37]
11-Remember Tomorrow [04:48]
12-Model Country [03:30]
13-Seed Ships [03:07]
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49:30 min