Artist : Belbury Poly
Title : From An Ancient Star
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2008
Date : 12/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : Ghost Box 11
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 49:30 min
Size : 64,10 MB
Tracklist:
----------
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
-------
49:30 min
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.ghostbox.co.uk/