Category: Belbury

Belbury | Broken Folk by Seatman and Powell in the Belbury Music Shop

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Available now, exclusively from the Belbury Music Shop , Broken Folk, a 10″ EP by Seatman and Powell featuring Belbury Poly. The second in a series of limited records made in association with Belbury Music and a variety of associated artists and labels.

It’s a five track EP of collaborations with folk singer Douglas E. Powell selected from Keith Seatman’s last two albums. It opens with a remix of the title track Broken Folk by Ghost Box veterans, Belbury Poly.



Melancholic and subtly psychedelic, these songs are redolent of supernatural short stories and winter afternoons out on English landscapes. In these dark rustic reveries, Seatman builds a dense collage of electronics, fragmented melody and found sound, around which Powell weaves his dreamlike lyrics.

The 10” is pressed on translucent green vinyl with sleeve art by Belbury Poly’s Jim Jupp. It’s released on Seatman’s own label KS Audio and is the second record produced in association with Belbury Music.

The next Belbury Music record will be Jon Brooks’ Applied Music: Science & Nature in March 2019

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Belbury | The Focus Group DJ Set & Films in God’s Waiting Room, Belfast

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The Focus Group (Julian House) will be DJing alongside some exclusive Ghost Box films at David Holmes’s God’s Waiting Room in Belfast on 27th October. Tickets…
https://www.ticketweb.ie/event/david-holmes-halloween-gods-waiting-the-dockers-club-tickets/8770815

Beautify Junkyards and Sharron Kraus at Café Oto, London on 26th October is now sold out. But both will be doing a matinee performance on Sunday 27th at 2pm (NOTE this is minus Focus Group DJ support – that’s Friday night only).
https://babayagashut.seetickets.com/…/cafe-oto-dals…/1266977

There are also a few tickets left for their gig at The Heretic’s Folk Club, The Shakespeare, Sheffield on Sunday 28th.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beautify-junkyards-ghost-box-records-sharron-kraus-antique-doll-tickets-48642161013

 

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Belbury | Other Voices 10 by Sharron Kraus Out Now

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The final single in our Other Voices series is by Sharron Kraus with a remix by Belbury Poly on the B side.
It’s available now on download or heavyweight 7” vinyl, with sleeve design by Julian House.



Something Out of Nothing is a beautifully simple yet profound baroque pop folk song. Kraus sings, plays guitar and synth and is ably assisted by a studio band comprising:
Jenny Bliss Bennett on Viola de Gamba & Fiddle, Nick Jonah Davis on Slide Guitar, Neal Heppleston on Bass, Oliver Parfitt on Synths, Nancy Wallace on Backing Vocals and Guy Whittaker on Drums.

 

Sharron will be supporting Beautify Junkyards on…

26th October at Cafe Oto (Baba Yaga’s Hut), London
(now sold out, but a matinee performance has been added)

28th october at Shakespeare’s (Heretics’ Folk Club), Sheffield

Her recent album, Joy’s Reflection is Sorrow is available now on LP from Sunstone Records and on CD from Bandcamp.

 

 

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Belbury | New Beautify Junkyards Video and Live Dates

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Beautify Junkyards are announcing their tour dates with this beautiful new video for ‘Sybil’s Dream’, taken from their Ghost Box album The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards. The film was created by US video artist Keith Rondinelli.

The band are embarking on a series of live dates in Portugal and the UK. They’ll be supported by Sharron Kraus and a DJ set by The Focus Group (Julian House) at the Café Oto gig in London.

23rd September FESTIVAL IMINENTE Lisbon

29th September  FESTA DO OUTONO SERRALVES Porto

26th  October CAFE OTO London

27th  October TBA London

28th  October SHAKESPEARE Sheffield

23th  November AVENIDA Aveiro

24th  November SALÃO BRAZIL Coimbra

Full details on the band’s Facebook Page

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Belbury | Other Voices 10 by Sharron Kraus Pre-orders open now

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The final single in a series featuring regular Ghost Box artists, special guests and one-off projects. This time our guest artist is folk singer, Sharron Kraus with a remix by Belbury Poly on the B side. Pre-order at the Ghost Box shop now and due for on 21st September on download or heavyweight 7”, with sleeve design by Julian House.

Something Out of Nothing is a beautifully simple yet profound baroque pop folk song. Kraus sings, plays guitar and synth and is ably assisted by a studio band comprising:
Jenny Bliss Bennett on Viola de Gamba & Fiddle, Nick Jonah Davis on Slide Guitar, Neal Heppleston on Bass, Oliver Parfitt on Synths, Nancy Wallace on Backing Vocals and Guy Whittaker on Drums.

Also in the shop we’ve unearthed a tiny handful of some earlier titles in the singles series which are now on sale, most for under a fiver…

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Belbury | Beautify Junkyards & Sharron Kraus at Cafe Oto (London) 26th October

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26th October, 7:30 – Café Oto (London)
Beautify Junkyards, Sharron Kraus & The Focus Group (DJ)
Tickets £12

And coming this September, Other Voices 10 by Sharron Kraus (with Belbury Poly):

 

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Belbury | Applied Music: Plastics Today by Jon Brooks in the Belbury Music Shop

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Available now, exclusively from the new Belbury Music Shop. The first in a series of limited records made in association with Belbury Music and a variety of associated artists and labels.

“Applied Music: Plastics Today”  by Jon Brooks  is the first physical release from his Café Kaput label. It comes on heavyweight translucent orange vinyl, with a free download code. Sleeve art and video are by Ian Hodgson. (NB: The free vinyl card will often be tucked inside the lining of the inner sleeve, please check carefully.)

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All we need now is a version with a John Foxx vocal on it..

 

Belbury | Ways of Seeing by The Advisory Circle out now.

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The new album from The Advisory Circle, Ways of Seeing is out now on LP, CD & DL.

The CD & LP packaging is designed by Julian House. The elegantly simple artwork and typography, reminiscent of 80s photographic manuals and magazines, is rendered on metallic gold foil packaging. The heavyweight vinyl LP includes a free download card.

Two members of Friendly Fires make guest appearances; Ed Macfarlane on vocals on No Way Back, and Edd Gibson co-production on Scuba.



“A mindblowing tour-de-force once again from The Advisory Circle, and one that will be on my record player for some time to come. Stunningly immersive, beautifully produced and stunningly packaged. Album of the year material, for sure.” 
Piccadilly Records

“Ways of Seeing is another excellent transmission of library music recreated for meandering minds. A vivid audio hallucination that feels like its been buried deep in our collective memories past but now brought up to be soaked in the psychedelic sunshine of The Advisory Circle’s unique sound world.” 
Bleep

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