Edition 50

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. This edition features the music, sound and storytelling of Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl, Deaf Center, Isa Gordon, Maya Shenfeld, Marla Hansen, Abigail Snail, Alan & Jan and Pan•American.

Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl - Rørvikelva (Langeleik)
Bryan Senti - Tersura (La Marea)
Aksak Maboul before Aksak Maboul - Kosmischer Afternoon (Aksak Maboul Before Aksak Maboul, documents & experiments 1969-1977)
Andrew Wasylyk - Love Is A Life That Lasts Forever, feat. Molly Linen (Irreparable Parables)
Geologist - Color in the B&W (Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?)
Guido Spannocchi - Meditations (Kammermusik)
Deaf Center - Further (Through Time)
Isa Gordon - Sea Song (8Men)
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley - Laugh and cricket (The Lost Score)
ER Junken - So, Surprise (To Be Continued)
Kenny Wheeler Sextet - You’ve Read the Book (What Was)
Le Millipede - Ernst Friedrich Schumacher 1973 (Radical Hope)
Maya Shenfeld - Image Makers (Cover-Up)
Marla Hansen - I Inside The Old I Dying Laugh Into The Leaves
Robert Stillman - To Be Loved By You, Kids (10,000 Rivers)
Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra - Svens vaggsång, Sven's Lullaby (Svens vaggsång / Speldosa och två halva timmars sömn)
Tashi Dorij - Burn The Throne (low clouds hang, this land is on fire)
Abigail Snail - Bages (Rad Berms)
Alan & Jan - Together (Take me, I’m yours)
Tiny Vipers - Rainfalls (Tormentor)
Jilk - End Harm For End Home (FIX YOUR HEARTS)
Pan•American - A Window in the Strings (Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane)
Bill Wells feat. Aby Vulliamy - High Alone Dreams ('24 / '25)
Bill Wells feat. Norman Blake - Is Anybody There? / What Am I Afraid Of? Dreams ('24 / '25)
Spencer Cullum - Washed Upon the Shore (Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection 3)
Will Glaser - Dedicated To All Living Beings Who Suffer (Music of the Terrazoku, Ethnographic Recordings From An Imagined Future)

Originally broadcast on Margate Radio at the end of March 2026.

Photo - Diana Jarvis | Penguin - Damian O'Hara | layout - Julie Rafalski