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.
Icarus - Lemsip Max Relief (An Ever-growing Meridional Entertainment Transgression At The Edge Of The Multiverse)
Ellen Reid - Strawberry Hill Ascent (feat. Kronos Quartet) (Big Majestic)
Marius Neset & Leif Ove Andsnes - Road to Polaris Part 1 (Who We Are)
Ficino Ensemble & Michelle O'Rourke - Sea salt and turpentine (Sea salt and turpentine)
Jabu - Sea Mills (A Soft and Gatherable Star
Bill Wells - To The Sea (Collected Dreams)
Organi - Italiano (Babylonia)
Claire Dickson - The Beholder (The Beholder)
Federica Deiana - Petrichor (Tempest)
ISAN - Perlon (Lamenting Machine)
The Gentle Good - Beth Yw'r Haf I Mi? (Galargan)
HAPTIC - Proscenium (Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions)
aus - Another (Fluctor)
Elin Forkelid - Anemoia (Songs To Keep You Company On A Dark Night)
Greg Davis - Full Spectrum 6 (blue fifty-three)
Ben Böhmer -Blossoms (Bloom)
Painting - All My Eggs Go Down the Drain (Painting Is Dead)
Tomat - Frankenstein Incendiary Biomass (OHT Frankenstein)
Yngel - Silva (Silva)
Paula Rae Gibson - Fall Into You (The Roles We Play To Disappear)
Ava Rasti - Teardrop (The River)
sea + i - three refrains (three refrains)
Alex Sopp - Loon (The Hem & The Haw)
Ellen Reid - Strawberry Hill Descent (feat. Nadia Sirota and Gabriel Cabezas) Big Majestic
Tycho - Epilogue (Infinite Health)
A special thanks to all those who contributed captured sounds from their lives and homes which are incorporated and weaved into the show.
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Photo - Diana Jarvis | Penguin - Damian O'Hara | layout - Julie Rafalski