Arctic Circle is a monthly radio transmission from the shorelines of a forgotten time and place. A two hour expedition into new music compiled, curated but most importantly introduced by your humble penguin host Ben Eshmade featuring the music of Astrobal, Matthew Bourne, Ava Rasti, Advance Base, Afterklands, Broken Chip and uroboro.
Read moreMargate Radio October 2024
Arctic Circle is a monthly radio transmission from the shorelines of a forgotten time and place. A two hour expedition into new music compiled, curated but most importantly introduced by your humble penguin host Ben Eshmade featuring the music of aus, Painting, Ellen Reid, Greg Davis, Elin Foreklid, Alex Sopp, Organi and Claire Dickson.
Read moreMargate Radio September 2024
Arctic Circle is a monthly radio transmission from the shorelines of a forgotten time and place. A two hour expedition into new music compiled, curated but most importantly introduced by your humble penguin host Ben Eshmade featuring the music of Sone Institute, Charlotte Jacobs, Lara Jones, Floating Point, Paula Rae Gibson, Rikuto Fujimoto.
Read moreMargate Radio August 2024
Arctic Circle is a monthly radio transmission from the shorelines of a forgotten time and place. A two hour expedition into new music compiled, curated but most importantly introduced by your humble penguin host Ben Eshmade featuring the music of Pictish Trail, Wild Up, Davóne Tines & The Truth, Maven Grace and Maven Grace amongst others.
Read moreMargate Radio July 2024
Arctic Circle is a monthly radio transmission from the shorelines of a forgotten time and place. A two hour expedition into new music compiled, curated but most importantly introduced by your humble penguin host Ben Eshmade.
Federica Deiana - Microcosm (Faith)
Laura Cannell - The Woodland Wolf (Wolflore)
Sam Bailey – May 1 (Piano in the Woods, May)
Floating World Pictures with Ocean Moon - Hearts Gate (Have You Met Your Maker?)
Brunvoll/Urheim/Moskus - Nils Klim (Barefoot in Bryophyte)
Dan Amor - Square One (Square One)
FRANCE JOBIN + YAMIL REZC - Cómo IIego aqui? (Un día en México)
Cécile Broché - Lully’s dream, Lully’s nightmare (3D@Paris)
SUN - Rain On Me (I Can See Our House From Here)
Will Gregory Moog Ensemble - Archimedes´ Screw (Heat Ray:The Archimedes Project)
Rothko and Steve Parry - In The Season Of Darkness extract (HOWL)
Organza Ray - Other Call Answered Held Tight (Circle of Kiono)
Nilüfer Yanya - Call It Love (Love Call It Love)
DYL - A3 a7r380R (Diving Saucer Attack)
Matthew Bourne - Burn All Three. Each one, separately (Harpsichords)
Mark Templeton - Two/Worlds (Two Verses)
ØJERUM - Coreless Whisper (Cut Paper Flowers)
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall - Chorale (Fanfares and Freedom)
Nathan Bowles Trio - Gimme My Shit (Are Possible)
Minhwi Lee - Mirror Therapy for Phantom Pain (Hometown to Come)
Sara Wolff – Is it True? (postcard Map)
Daniel Inzani - Glasswing (Selected Worlds)
Sam Bailey – E-bow & aeroplanes (Piano in the Woods, June)
Umberto - October (Black Bite)
Pictish Trail - Melody Something Summer Redux (Follow Footsteps EP)
A special thanks to all those who contributed captured sounds from their lives and homes which are incorporated and weaved into the show.
A kind request if you enjoyed this show or any of my radio adventures over the last 21 years, please consider supporting me by buying a cup of or slice of cake via ko-fi, thank you!
Photo - Diana Jarvis | Penguin - Damian O'Hara | layout - Julie Rafalski
Margate Radio June 2024
Arctic Circle is a monthly radio transmission from the shorelines of a forgotten time and place. A two hour expedition into new music compiled, curated but most importantly introduced by your humble penguin host Ben Eshmade.
Copper Sounds - Sequence 1 (Sequenced Ceramics)
Vic Mars - Table Mountain (Bannau Brycheiniog)
Sol Sol - Can I have the bill, Please? (Almost All Things Considered)
Bethany Ley - Cycles Renew (Sundial EP)
Vagantpoesi - Purple Morning Sky (Unmetrical)
Iskra Strings x Sam Symes – Shadow (EP)
Shuttle358 - slowly in... (optimal.lp)
Thom Yorke - Knife Edge (Confidenz)
MINING - Arise (Chimet)
Bill MacKay - Locust Land (Locust Land)
Copper Sounds - Sequence 4 ft Tara Clerkin + Sunny Joe Paradisos (Sequenced Ceramics)
Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion - To Music (Rectangles and Circumstance)
Espial - morning sunlight through a curtain (The Act Of Noticing)
Córas Trio - Boys of Ballisodare (Córas Trio)
Machinedrum - ORACLE (feat. aja monet) (3FOR82)
Mary Halvorson – Unscrolling (Cloudward)
James Devane - Lights Down Low (Searching)
Hovvdy - A Little (Hovvdy)
Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman - Blessing Of The Banners (Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On)
Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements - The Top of Thomas Street (Rain on the Road)
ØJERUM - Coreless Whisper (Cut Paper Flowers)
Unstern - In the Roar of Your Channels (Es Geht Der Tag)
Eiko Ishibashi - Missing V.2 extract (Evil Does Not Exist)
Copper Sounds - Sequence 7 (Sequenced Ceramics )
A special thanks to all those who contributed captured sounds from their lives and homes which are incorporated and weaved into the show.
A kind request if you enjoyed this show or any of my radio adventures over the last 21 years, please consider supporting me by buying a cup of or slice of cake via ko-fi, thank you!
Photo - Diana Jarvis | Penguin - Damian O'Hara | layout - Julie Rafalski
Margate Radio May 2024
Arctic Circle is a monthly radio transmission from the shorelines of a forgotten time and place. A two hour expedition into new music compiled, curated but most importantly introduced by your humble penguin host Ben Eshmade.
Mazy Day - Lamorna extract (Hap Da)
Kathy Hinde - Twittering Machines extract 1 (Twittering Machines)
marucoporoporo - Conceive the Sea (Conceive The Sea)
Fran & Flora - Flowers for Innocence (Precious Collection)
NiCKY – 4gareth (by)
FRANCE JOBIN + YAMIL REZC - Cómo IIego aqui? (Un día en México)
Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo - The Blue Unicorn (Phantasmagoria In Blue)
Gidge Grit – Tundra
YELKA Sie wissen feat. Bela Hagel (For)
Halvcirkel Heiður - Himinn (Vida)
Flo Lines - The only thing left is (The only thing left is everything EP)
E.L. Heath - Tonfanau (Cambrian)
Glasshopper - Music Stands (I'm Not Telling You Anything)
Shuttle358 - reverse flow (optimal.lp)
Simon Fisher Turner - Barefeet (The Instability of the Signal)
Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne - Fux (Dulcitone 1804)
Keeley Forsyth - Do I Breathe (The Hollow)
KÁRYYN - Odar (Calm KAOSS! EP)
Galecstasy - Turquoise (Organic Spirals) (Stone Flute)
Tony Njoku - Pepper (Last Bloom EP)
Sam Morton Cry Without End Equiknoxx Remix, part 1 Cry Without End (Equiknoxx Remix, part 1)
Vince Clarke - Blackleg (Songs Of Silence)
Adam Coney - Seal Sands (Ashwin & Above)
Andrew Wasylyk - Truant In Gossamer (Hearing the Water Before Seeing the Falls)
David Boulter - The Abouretum (St Ann's)
Victoria Hume - Borrowers (Radical Abundance)
Ecovillage - Corner of the World ft. Nat Birchall & Thore Pfeiffer (Crescendo)
Kathy Hinde - Twittering Machines extract 3 (Twittering Machines)
Mazy Day - Piskies Hall extract (Hap Da)
A special thanks to all those who contributed captured sounds from their lives and homes which are incorporated and weaved into the show.
A kind request if you enjoyed this show or any of my radio adventures over the last 21 years, please consider supporting me by buying a cup of or slice of cake via ko-fi, thank you!
Photo - Diana Jarvis | Penguin - Damian O'Hara | layout - Julie Rafalski