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 featuring the music of Terry Edwards, Yama Warashi, Amulet, Henry Prince, Leo Chadburn, Bill Thimpson, Both Hands and Michelle O’Rourke.
Leo Chadburn - It is a Beautiful Day / 1000 Years Later (Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator)
David Boulter - Last Light (Whitby)
Donna Thompson - Flowers In My Eyes, Blades In My Back (Piano Day)
Eno Moebius Roedelius - Foreign Affairs Krautrock Eruption (An Introduction To German Electronic Music 1970-1980)
Georgia Duncan - Opening (Four Ways To The Sun)
Liv Andrea Hauge Trio - Natt natt natt (Døgnville)
Shigeru Umebayashi - Veronica's Piano (Shigeru Umebayashi - Two Films)
Henry Prince - Against The Earth Side A (Against The Earth)
herbal tea - Seventeen (Hear as the Mirror Echoes)
Michael Santos - Defocus (Defocus)
Both Hands - Sraey Eerht / Home Recordings (PostMap Club 222 Three Years EP)
Ian Hawgood - March of Soul (Late Night Live Version) March of Soul / Love Retained (Late Night Live Versions)
Bill Thompson - Last Night's Stars (And the Sky Breaks Open)
Michelle O'Rourke - Lit (Lit)
Amulet - Julian / Amulet Version (Windowledge, as a Starting Point)
Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique (Krautrock Eruption – An Introduction To German Electronic Music 1970-1980)
Morgan Szymanksi and Tommy Perman - We All Rise with the Sun (Songs for the Mist Forest)
Phew, Erika Kobayashi, Dieter Moebius - Katherine (Radium Girls)
Cory Hanson - Lou Reed (I Love People)
Xenia Pestova Bennett - Ceci N’est Pas Un Piano extract (Annea Lockwood The Piano Works)
Ishaaq Aarkistra - Arikomban Space (PostMap Club 223 Grunderna / Arikomban Space)
Cate Francesca Brooks - In Wonder (Lofoten)
Yama Warashi – Looking at the Pine Trees (Piano Day)
Terry Edwards - Harlem Nocturne / Gesundheit Version (The Koln Concerts 2002)
A special thanks to all those who contributed captured sounds from their lives and homes which are incorporated and weaved into the show.
Photo - Diana Jarvis | Penguin - Damian O'Hara | layout - Julie Rafalski