Edition 54

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 BIG|BRAVE, Lynn Wright, Ose, Ed Askew, Ruth Garbus, Oren Ambarachi and Ibukun Sunday.

Michelle O'Rourke & Máire Carroll - Prologue from Recueillement (Still Is The Night)
Dylan Henner - July (July)
Kevin Richard Martin - Sorrow (Sub Zero 2026 Remaster)
BIG|BRAVE - holding tongue (in grief or in hope)
Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok - II (The Sky Was Out of Tune)
Dovetailed - Kethers Street (PostMap Club 259 Kethers Street)
Lynn Wright - Surely As The Sea (Before The Sinking Plains)
Donna Regina - Follow The See (Follow The Sea)
Eliza McCarthy/Stephen Waarts/NSOI/Ryan McAdams - LiminaPiano Concerto: I. Head (Limina)
Ose - L'Aube (Jumelle Adonia)
Lusine - Pendulum (Melting Days)
Ed Askew - Winter Song (The Final Painting
Stine Janvin & Morten Joh Acceptance - Kom, Menneske, At Skue Mig! (Or Gare - funeral procession music from Ryfylke, Norway)
WACWMS - Burroughs- III (Gavin Bryars: Burroughs)
Ruth Garbus - Nothing and Everything (Profound)
A Certain Frank  - Blue & White (Nothing)
Hilary Jeffery - A Song About Gloves (Green Prism: music by Keith Tippett)
Guy Offenbach - Dvash (Lo Amiti)
Luke Bainbridge - It'll Pass (PETSTEP)
Marisa Anderson - Whistle Song (The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music)
Olivier Alary - Movement V (Vestiges)
Oren Ambarchi - Hidden Tableau, excerpt (Cooked)
Alan & Jan - Déjà Vu (Take me, I’m yours)
Ibukun Sunday – Amen (Olùsìn, Worshippers)

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