Edition 53

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 Harald Grosskopf, Janek Schaefer, Abigail Snail, Sara Parkman, Espen Berg Trio, Tony Njoku and Kriedler.

Magic Tuber Stringband - Woodpeckers (Heavy Water)
HOLODEC - tru folk (TRU FOLK)
Sylvain Chauveau - Le Zen Dans L’Art Du Tir À L’Arc (The Complexity of the Simple)
Jo Mango - The Lightswitch (The Lightswitch)
Tony Njoku - ETUDE NO. 1 (A WORLD OF BODIES ON FIRE)
Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band - Same Sky (The New Atomic)
Espen Berg Trio - Transients (Entropies)
Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns - Kompet Blir (Bitches blues)
Mariam Wallentin & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble - Wide (Spring Flood)
Isa Gordon - Every Day Lasts (PostMap Club 247 Young Edward / Every Day Lasts)
A Lily - The Sleepers (wake:sleep 20th anniversary edition)
Penny Arcade - instrumental No.1 (Double Exposure)
Firestations - This Imaginary Line (International Dust)
Harald Grosskopf - LiLaLu (Glitches Brew)
M.C. Schmidt & John Berndt - The Sound of Glink (Cloud Machines)
Cate Kennan - Rain (Shadows)
I'm Not Done Cooking - La Fusée (I'm Not Done Cooking)
Janek Schaefer - "Sound Wave 7"edit 2026 (Short Stories"" 40+ sound art films collection)
uroboro - the sky is always open (outside)
Kreidler - Snowflakes (Schemes)
Leverton Fox - Sleeper Train (Eternal Gong Bath of the Sunbed Mind)
Aaron Olson - The Endless List Of Anything (Songs Album II)
Marisa Anderson - Pair of Duduk (The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music)
Abigail Snail - Show Breaking To Waves (Rad Berms)
ndrw cnry - A certain distance (A Certain Distance)
The Telescopes - Revolutionary Blues (Static Charge)
Ian Hawgood - Broken Seta (Piano Works)
Sara Parkman - Bära mörker (Aster, Atlas)
Topdown Dialectic - False LP A - 13 (False LP A)

Originally broadcast on Margate Radio at the end of June 2026.
Photo - Diana Jarvis | Penguin - Damian O'Hara | layout - Julie Rafalski