Role Musician Years active 2004 – present Active from 2003 | Record label Ghost Box Music Name Belbury Poly Origin Wales, United Kingdom | |
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Genres AmbientLibrary MusicFolk musicHauntology Occupation(s) MusicianComposerRecord Label Manager Associated acts The Focus GroupEric ZannThe Advisory Circle Albums | ||
The belbury poly green grass grows 2012
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 Jon Brooks on piano.
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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 soundworld is characterised as a kind of upbeat, electronic and rustic prog rock. Influences, range from old library music and TV soundtracks to keyboard driven 70s prog rock, folk and Krautock.
Jupp has spoken about Belbury Poly and the other artists on Ghost Box as sounding like the misremebered past of a parallel world, as well as acknowledging a debt to the author Arthur Machen. The name references a fictional institution, created by the author C.S. Lewis in his novel That Hideous Strength.