Haunted soundtrack for 1960s TV from a parallel world

Belburrrrry

The Belbury Tales is the latest hauntological manifestation of Ghost Box co-founder Jim Jupp's personal project Belbury Poly. Jupp's freshly nostalgic forays into library music of yore filtered through his own progrock-loving, analog synth filters are enhanced with real drum and bass (and guitar) by, respectively, Jim Musgrave and Christopher Budd. The Belbury Tales is a spectral sound story of "medievalism, the supernatural, [and] ideas about the re-invention of the past, childhood, initiation and pilgrimage (both spiritual and physical)." The above video accompanying the "Summer Round" track from Belbury Tales is an excerpt from multitalented Ghost Box co-founder Julian House's film New Summer Wavelengths. The Belbury Tales is available in the US from Experimedia.

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Matthew Saunier

Ghost Box, why do you insist that I buy an awkwardly-shaped analog vinyl dongle to enjoy your music? It’s 2012. It’s The Future. Just torrent it and then politely ask for my money, which you will receive.
- http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch
  
  I guess they’re vaguely into nostalgia.
  - http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty
    
    It is a large part of the experience.
- http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
  
  Downloads are available on Amazon: The Belbury Tales
  
  And iTunes: The Belbury Tales
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1161387005 Susan Gallagher

its on spotify
David Pescovitz

Or directly from the label’s site as MP3 or FLAC…
http://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/the-belbury-tales-0/
http://vertigo25.tumblr.com/ vertigo25

I came to comment that it was on Spotify and iTunes. Alas. Too slow again.

I’m listening to it on Spotify right now, and it’s pretty great. I was hoping that all of the tracks had the In Search Of vibe that Summer Round does, but this is not the case. They all definitely have this nostalgic 60s/70s TV soundtrack inspiration, though. Some are far more bright and less haunting and have more of a PBS edu/tech (or “Look Around You”) vibe.

Very great stuff all-in-all.
- http://vertigo25.tumblr.com/ vertigo25
  
  Also… where do they find these “library music of yore” samples? Does anyone know of a collection that would be in the public domain and available on the interwebs? Maybe something good on archive.org?
  - overhere2000
    
    Tons of them at swap meets. I picked up about 15 for 5 bucks.
http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

I LOVE this stuff. Ghost Box’s other stuff, for example the recent album ‘As The Crow Flies’ by The Advisory Circle, has been on heavy rotation in my ears recently.
http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/products/product_asthecrow.htm
What has been described as “hauntology”, if you like labels…
usonia

Weird coincidence wednesday! I just found this last night on Spotify.
Well played, BoingBoing.
Also: this “parallel world” also includes Gelg and Boards of Canada and Edgar Wright’s feature length DON’T, right?
Rich Keller

Is it too late to say, “Whoa… trippy”?

The visuals remind me of entoptic form constants after pressing on my eyelids for 5 minutes or so.
http://twitter.com/tuxtux Joel Westerberg

The little booklets in the belbury poly CDs are fantastic (the music is too). Though it was several years ago when last I a Belbury Poly CD Bought.
http://www.facebook.com/noisettes66 Brian Horst

reminds me of Perspex’s “Satan’s Come, Bang The Drum…”
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/perspex