Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star

Artwork and MP3 clips linked from here.

awwwwwwwwwwwww yeah

i knew this was on the way but

*cums*

*turns off the fall*

oh that cover is lovely

and the clips fit it perfectly. more arp2600ntological shit!

stoked for this one... and remember tomorrow sounds like a fusion between scarlet ceremony sound and the usual BP tack. maybe some broadcasters involved in this one?

Niiiiiiice, I was racking my brains where I'd heard the first sample from (The Hidden Door) and driving myself mental but it was actually on a FSOL mix set back in June. Should be an ace album, looking forward to it !

Maybe it's just me, but GB releases feel like some kind of event. Clips sound promising, good to see The Hidden Door there. And I love the artwork too, it also conjures up creepy childhood memories of the John Mills Quatermass. I'm camping outside the front doors of the internet to preorder this.

i completely understand what you're on about.

i think a lot of it has to do with the quality control. for me, there is not a single bad GBX release and my fanboi-ism approaches that of geogaddi era boc.

also the unified design theme and sound and stuff... actually it's pretty perverse. ghost box fans tend to be somewhat obsessive about the label, yet a lot of what they have us foaming at the mouth for is remixed or reimagined library music. we all can't wait for the latest instalment of turbocharged open university soundtracks.

and this stuff is as evocative, if not moreso, for me than BoC at their best

edit: word on the quatermass ref. always 'felt like' that and blake's 7 more than anything else for me

yes ! this is some good news. been listening to a lot of ghostbox stuff lately. belbury poly is sooo nice.

one thing i notice about gbx

i just need to listen to one release and thats me on a ghost box kick for the rest of the night

that has to be a good thing :)

kaini is the ghostbox master. and i just need more right now.

i only have "the owl's map" and "the other channel", i love them sooo much. which one should i get next ? focus ? other belbury ??

you want "hey let loose your love" and "ourobourindra" next

really it might take a few listens to get used to julian house's style of looping. he seems to deliberately pick truncated or over-long loops that make TFG sound very strange until you get used to it.

and as soon as you are familiar with eric zann and TFG... get "we are all pan's people" and "mind how you go"

i'd love another eric zann release but i doubt it will happen

and caretstik and dot/kalle/genuinelycantrememberwhathegoesunderatthemoment are as big fans as i of lovely lovely ghostbox

ghost box stuff is indeed pretty high quality. Will be glad to hear this one. Do many ghost box fans listen to much library music too? I'm slowly growing a collection of library music, but it's just such a massive pile of music, are there any sites or such dedicated to learning and finding all the labels and artists in that realm? I feel like I just find random labels/artists now and then and never see the whole picture, if there even is one.

you shouldnt find lib.music easily or cheaply.. thats the whole thing...

anyhoo.. im stoked for this particurlar item!

*wears a gb t-shirt*

  Glass Plate said:

ghost box stuff is indeed pretty high quality. Will be glad to hear this one. Do many ghost box fans listen to much library music too? I'm slowly growing a collection of library music, but it's just such a massive pile of music, are there any sites or such dedicated to learning and finding all the labels and artists in that realm? I feel like I just find random labels/artists now and then and never see the whole picture, if there even is one.

http://www.trunkrecords.com/

  kaini said:

  Glass Plate said:

ghost box stuff is indeed pretty high quality. Will be glad to hear this one. Do many ghost box fans listen to much library music too? I'm slowly growing a collection of library music, but it's just such a massive pile of music, are there any sites or such dedicated to learning and finding all the labels and artists in that realm? I feel like I just find random labels/artists now and then and never see the whole picture, if there even is one.

 

http://www.trunkrecords.com/

I've gotten lots of stuff from trunk records, but I don't feel like they're a definitive source/summary of library music. I guess I just feel I want to know all the major names really well, but it's just time consuming as fuck. (especially to get to listen through it all)

for example I just recently got into Editions Montparnasse 2000, but I've only heard a few releases, it takes time to really go and collect more of them. Another label I've heard a lot of is Tele Music specifically Bernard Estardy and Michel Gonet. Library music is just so expansive and yet so generalized it blows my mind.

the sheer and excessive pretentiousness of some of these releases kinda annoys me

i know the appeal is limited but imparting information, audio or otherwise, is fucking cheap these days

  kaini said:

i think a lot of it has to do with the quality control. for me, there is not a single bad GBX release

I agree with you completely.

Also, I've been listening to 'Seance At Hobs Lane', and had the thought that it'd be interesting to see what other releases GB would reissue if they were so inclined, given how completely appropriate to the label the MVAL album sounds. Not that I think Ghost Box need to beef up their roster or back catalogue (apart from maybe with another Eric Zann album, I'd love to see where that would go as well).

from an ancient star is a bit of an anomaly - military drums in the intro! then it starts into traditional belbury territory but there's a bit more melodic progression than usual.

clockwork horoscope is a bit advisory circle, but the melody is total belbury. synthy library goodness. the mastering is nice, maybe a little phatter than previous BP? there's moogs in them thar hills ;0

Looking forward to this immensly. Belbury Poly and the rest of GB records are making some of the most memorable music that i've heard in the past few years. really great shit.

GB artwork <3

i wish julian house was actually a house, cos i'd live in it happily

i bet you there'd be constant piped queasy/uneasy listening

"The launch party for the new Ghost Box release was a great success"

kaini was there!

(on the left)

and that could be me on the right (second to)

but i have no testicles.. i mean spectacles

ieafs you have to keep trying until your mind stops malfunctioning.

  ieafs said:

er, i think someone is malfunctioning...

 

dare i actually check this out? i actually sort of like that cover... other ghost box, not so much.

well belbury is probably the 'friendliest' gb artist. the loops aren't clunky and cthulhu generally isn't waiting around the next bend.

check out the previous belbury poly album, the owl's map. it's GB's finest hour imo.

  kaini said:

check out the previous belbury poly album, the owl's map. it's GB's finest hour imo.

do you feel like the boards of canada comparison is justified?

i think a lot of it is kneejerk. short tracks, analogue synths? must be boccy.

also you'd be silly not to notice that they're both tapping into mid 80s cold war dread and PIFs and suchlike.

but i think that their paths have diverged - ghost box are making the sort of music that i wish boc were still making.

anyway the most boccy gbx stuff is the focus group, i think. nearly every FG track sounds like a splintered version of a boc vignette. some BP stuff sounds like broadcast, or delia, or all sorts of other shit.

it's a conundrum of a sound. very reserved and stiff-upper-lip english, but psychedelic and quatermass as fuck too. also we need more eric zann!