This week on Transmissions, Jim Jupp, co-founder of Ghost Box Records, which has mined TV soundtracks, vintage electronics, psychedelia, pop, and supernatural folklore for decades, issuing music by Broadcast, Pye Corner Audio, The Advisory Circle, and Jupp’s own band, The Belbury Poly, who released the jazzy, psychedelic concept album The Path last year. This week on Transmissions, Jupp joins us to discuss his storied label, plumbing the nostalgic depths, the evocative spaces of The Twilight Zone, fairy lore, extraterrestrial, and yes, the lure of “hauntology.”
Category: Belbury Poly
Belbury Poly :: The Path
With The Path, Belbury Poly mastermind Jim Jupp (co-founder of Ghost Box) creates a vivid and faerie haunted-world, combining funk rhythms, krautrock repetition, prog grooves, and library music into a bewitching radiophonic swirl. While Belbury Poly began as a true solo project, here Jupp is joined by a cast of collaborators, including bassist/guitarist Christopher Budd, drummer Max Saidi, and Jesse Chandler (Pneumatic Tubes) on flute, clarinet, and keyboards, and author and poet Justin Hopper, who adds quixotic and evocative narration to the record.