Fugue for a Darkening Island
Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar
Image: William Blake – Eve Tempted by the Serpent 1799-1800 (painted) Tempera painting; tempera and gold on copper
“…moving through a sacred theatre where gods and humans transformed into each other, as if they shared one essence, the immortal and the transient interfused.” (Colin Thubron, Passage 2026)
with thanks to Christopher Priest
1st hour
Jessica Tomlinson – What is Normal [Befriending the Abnormal, unreleased 2026]
DOCCULT – The Sonic Spectre [Cryptoid Noise 2026]
Horst Rickels – Gebakken Lucht [Gebakken Lucht, Staalplaat 2026]
Aldous Huxley – The Island (read by AI) – [The Doors of Perception, Complete Philosophy | For Sleep 2026]
Abul Mogard – Quiet Places (extract) [Live at Norberg Festival, Soft Echoes 2026]
Philip Jeck – Vinyl Requiem; Hamburg Rehearsal 25.8.95 (extract) [Unreleased 1995]
The Fast Set – In Place [Home Recordings 1981-19845, The Wormhole 2027]
digital ghost
drøne – séance [drøne, 2020]
2nd hour
Mosab Abu Toha – excerpt from Democracy Now! 30th anniversary celebration, September 07, 2026
Joël Lavoie – Autodidact (rework) [Spirodon Piano + Reworks by Stefan Christoff, Cruel Nature 2026]
Jessica Tomlinson – orange crayon [Befriending the Abnormal, unreleased 2026]
Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English – Tint of Ionosphere [Selene, Temporary Residence 2024]
Rushab Nandha – throughborrowedair [soarsoftly, Dragon’s Eye Recordings 2026]
Autechre – M4 Lema [SIGN, Warp 2020]
Jen Reimer – 02 Movement 2 [Song of Air, Self-released 2026]
Tyondai Braxton – K Space [Splayed Werks, Erased Tapes 2026]
Geir Jenssen – Jobo Rabzang [Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings from Tibet, Ash International 2006]