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 feature the music of J.A.M. String Collective, Christ Wallumrød, Christian Kjellvander, Bird of Peace Orchestra, Roméo Poirier and Ruth Maine.

Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok - Opening (Uncontrollable Thoughts)
Roméo Poirier - Et vous (Off the Record)
Liz Hanks - Meer [boundary] (Land)
J.A.M. String Collective - It Looks Better In The Rain She Looks Up at the Trees
Chris Thile - Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006: IV. Menuet I - V. Menuet II ;(Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2)
Ruth Maine - Like Water (Found Keys)
Blofish - Ceramics (Ceramics)
Bobby Conn - Wretched (Bobby's Place)
Christian Kjellvander - Hole In My Heart (Ex Voto / The Silent Love)
Will Glaser - Sunshower (Music of the Terrazoku, Ethnographic Recordings From An Imagined Future)
Christian Wallumrød - The sing (Percolation)
frostlake - The Breath (Shattered Stone)
Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke - do (Pareidolia)
Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland - Gå (Himmer over hav)
Kreidler - Anti-Car (Early Recordings 1994-95)
Darian Donovan Thomas - Mr & Mr Married (A Room With Many Doors: Day)
Lisa/Liza - Looking Glass (Ocean Path)
Majken - Miko Ascending (Korus)
Bird of Peace Orchestra - 3am Blue Velvet (Bird of Peace Orchestra)
Nobukazu Takemura - an ephemeral radiant (an ephemeral radiant)
Snorkel - Clouded Chords (Past Still Present Tense)
Matt Bachmann - Autumnal Cycle (Compost Karaoke)
Tilda Gebhardt - Song for M (Come the Afternoon)
Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity - Telemark Twist (Great Intentions)

Originally broadcast on Margate Radio at the end of October 2025.

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

Edition 45

Edition 44