Belbury Poly

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 Cate Brooks on piano.

Sound Belbury Poly's sound is characterised as a kind of upbeat, electronic and rustic prog rock. Influences, range from old library music and TV soundtracks to keyboard driven 1970s prog rock, folk and Krautrock.

Jupp has spoken about Belbury Poly and the other artists on Ghost Box as sounding like the misremembered past of a parallel world, in his novel That Hideous Strength.

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. 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 As Title Format Catalogue Number Year Belbury Poly and Moon Wiring Club Study Series 01: Youth and Recreation 7"/DL GBX701 2010 Belbury Poly and Mordant Music Study Series 03: Welcome to Godalming 7"/DL GBX703 2010 Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle Study Series 08: Inversions 7"/DL GBX708 2012 Belbury Poly and Spacedog Study Series 10: Message and Method 7"/DL GBX710 2013 Pye Corner Audio with Belbury Poly Other Voices 05: Machines are Obsolete/Pathways 7"/DL GBX715 2015 Sharron Kraus with Belbury Poly Other Voices 10: Something out of Nothing 7"/DL GBX720 2018

The Belbury Circle (Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle) Discography Title Format Label Catalogue Number Year Empty Avenues 10" EP/CD EP/DL Ghost Box GBX019 2013 Outward Journeys CD/LP/DL Ghost Box GBX029 2017