Ghost Box Records
Ghost Box is an independent, UK-based electronic music record label, launched in 2004 by graphic designer Julian House and producer Jim Jupp. Its roster includes artists such as Jupp's Belbury Poly, House's The Focus Group, and the Advisory ...
co-founder
Jim Jupp
Jim Jupp is a producer, composer, and along with the graphic designer Julian House he co-owns the Ghost Box record labelChristopher 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
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and TV soundtracks to keyboard driven 1970s
prog rock
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,
folk
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and Krautock.
Jupp has spoken about Belbury Poly and the other artists on
Ghost Box
Ghost Box is an independent, UK-based electronic music record label, launched in 2004 by graphic designer Julian House and producer Jim Jupp. Its roster includes artists such as Jupp's Belbury Poly, House's The Focus Group, and the Advisor ...
as sounding like the misremembered past of a parallel world, as well as acknowledging a debt to the author
Arthur Machen
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. The name references the fictional town of Belbury, created by the author
C.S. Lewis
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in his novel ''
That Hideous Strength
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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 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
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and
Bill Ryder-Jones
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(
The Coral
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). The track "The Willows" taken from the first Belbury Poly album of the same name was reworked by
Paul Weller
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as "Earth Beat" 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.
Discography
Albums and EPs
Singles
Album Appearances
Remixes
The Belbury Circle (Belbury Poly and
The Advisory Circle
The Advisory Circle is an alias of English electronic musician Cate Brooks (formerly known as Jon Brooks) along with King of Woolworths. Her releases as The Advisory Circle are on the Ghost Box Music label.
The Advisory Circle's first releas ...