Edition 51
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 Rothko, Eivind Aarset, Espen Berg Trio, Kreng , Bill Pritchard, YELKA, Spencer Cullum, BAG, Mariam Wallentin & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble.
Rothko - Monte Bré (Bury My Heart In The Mountains)
Juli Deák - Float (Brisk)
Anton Toorell - Scala (Solos II)
BAG - Lilac Sea (This House is a Body)
Bhajan Bhoy - Yangqin Beach (Meditations)
Eivind Aarset - Deep Green (Strange Hands)
Bill Pritchard - Imperfect (Haunted)
EMRA GRID - The Vision (Eleven Finns)
Green-House - Well of the World (Hinterlands)
Heldon - Bassong (Agneta Nilsson, Heldon IV, 50th Anniversary Edition)
Spencer Cullum - Look at the Moon (Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection 3)
Stine Janvin | Morten Joh - Lowering the coffin - Vaar Strid Er Endt (trad after Eivind Sigurdsson Berg Sete (Or Gare - Funeral Procession Music From Ryfylke, Norway)
Insufficient Funs - RoJa (Chunk)
more eaze - distance (sentence structure in the country)
Kevin Richard Martin - Sorrow, 2026 Remaster (Sub Zero, 2026 Remaster)
Cole Berliner - The Black Door (The Black Door)
Espen Berg Trio - Rue Saint-Michel (Entropies)
Marnie Weber - Songs Hurt Me (Returning Home: The Music of Marnie Weber)
Sara Parkman - Ora et Labora (Aster, Atlas)
Kreng - Gymnopedie (Wormhole)
Tara Clerkin Trio - Somewhere Good (Somewhere Good)
Ogle & Mugwood - Daydream (Eskypism)
YELKA - Moon For Now (Jeans)
Bill Callahan - The World is Still (My Days of 58)
Hoavi - Wayang (Architectonics)
Mariam Wallentin & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble - Basel (Spring Flood)
Caterina Schembri - I. Seen (A birch forest seen, imagined, and remembered)
Rothko - the poetry of clouds, read by Johny Brown (The Poetry Of Clouds)
Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. - Localised Absentia (Infinite Black Inside)
Originally broadcast on Margate Radio at the end of April 2026.
Photo - Diana Jarvis | Penguin - Damian O'Hara | layout - Julie Rafalski