After 13 years with Ultima Thule, Jon Shapiro departs for an unknown hemisphere through a portal of destiny with Chris Russell, Desensitized, Pink Floyd, Forenzics and Brian Eno.

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A weekly programme of ambient and atmospheric music from across the ages and around the world, heard on Australian public radio since 1989. Ultima Thule weaves a mix of ambient, trance, drone and chillout electronica, spacemusic, ancient, mediaeval and neoclassical creations, traditional and world music, soundtracks, cool jazz and impressionist soundworks into an exquisite, chatter-free 90-minute musical narrative.

Music

Chthonic exhalations from Flaer, Ambient Monkeys, Aegri Somnia and Fragmented Dreamscapes.

UT 1507

Sisyphean phantasms of an opaline night: new and recent releases on Swedish label Cryochamber, featuring Mount Shrine, Apocryphos and Fractalyst.

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Waiting on the shores of what might have been with I Am Afraid Of You, Blutung, EtherKraken, Simon Serc, Al Jewer and Andy Mitran.

UT 1505

A simple, pasive imagining: new sounds from Scott Cole, Matthew Coffman, Liquid Mind, Dream Cycle and ENIL Sounds.

UT 1504

Temporal shadow of a shimmering lifeform, with music by Courtney Swain, Hyunhye Seo, William Basinski, Steve Roden and Cremation Lily.

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