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FROM AN ANCIENT STAR
BELBURY POLY
- Ref. XB295Y
- GHOST BOX, 2008.
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 fromobscurity 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 nostalgiathough, 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.
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- 1 Belbury Poly logotone
- 2 The hidden door
- 3 From an ancient star
- 4 A year and a day
- 5 The all at once club
- 6 Time scale
- 7 Adventures in a miniature landscape
- 8 Widdershins
- 9 A great day out
- 10 Clockwork horoscope
- 11 Remember tomorrow
- 12 Model country
- 13 Seed ships