Edition 52

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 This transmission features the music, sound and storytelling of Led Bib, Dovetailed, Ana Roxanne, Tony Njoku, Setting, Holodec, Kreng, Jo Mango.

Led Bib - Dawn Chorus (Hotel Pupiik)
Puma Blue - Cocoons (Croak Dream)
more eaze - a chorale sentence (structure in the country)
Dovetailed - Kitchen (PostMap Club 254)
Cut A Lonely Figure - Second mantra extract (Draw a door in chalk on a wall and walk through it)
Laura Cannell - Celestial Bodies (The Medieval Drone Society III)
Theresa Loibl, Timm Cornelius, Markus Rom, Simon Popp & Micha Acher - RADIO FOUR (Henry And The Ghosts Songbook)
Colleen - Mis armas se habían caído al suelo (Libres antes del final)
Faith Eliott - there's a cargo ship full of luxury cars on fire in the atlantic ocean (PostMap Club 251)
Setting - What Kind of Fish is a Turtle (Setting)
Martin Archer & Claire McAllister - Wild (Mast Year)
Kreng - You Are Here (Wormhole)
Both Hands - Hold On (Be Like A Mountain In A Moonlit Way)
Lea Bertucci - The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, Excerpt (The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity)
Ana Roxanne - Wishful, draft (Poem 1)
Vilhelm Bromander + Fredrik Rasten - Sojourns, excerpt (Astral Twins)
maps and diagrams - reflection (reality tone isolation)
The Monochrome Set - Arcadia (Lotus Bridge)
Cluster - Umleitung (Sowiesoso, 50th Anniversary Edition)
Sulka - All Bets Off (PostMap Club 248)
VERÓNICA CERROTTA - Valparaíso, excerpt (Álbum de Viaje)
Wil Bolton & David Cordero - Sea Glass (How to Make Sense of Downtime)
White Fence - Unread Books (Orange)
Jonas Cambien – BOOM (MAN EATING TREE)
HOLODEC - marking time (TRU FOLK)
Tony Njoku - THE QUIET CHAOS OF PLAYING IT SAFE (A WORLD OF BODIES ON FIRE)
Jo Mango - Your Voice (The Lightswitch)

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

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