Hell & High Water
In a ship’s log remixed for deep listening, listeners are immersed into the true and ongoing voyage of Arka Kinari, an ancient sailing ship transformed into a cultural platform to sound the alarm for the climate crisis. You’ll explore seas and sounds, visit mega-ports and stilt villages, navigate through cyclones and plastic gyres, anchor in post-nuclear atolls, be hosted by sultans, threatened by soldiers, and blessed by shamans. You won’t know where this story ends, because we don’t know either.A creation of Grey Filastine. Launching June 21, 2026, with new seasons dropping each solstice and equinox.
Melting
The Atlantic Ocean is both the center and the margin of this episode. A water encumbered with history, bifurcated by empires, and now crossed by Arka Kinari. The story detours to raise hell about high waters outside the COP25 climate summit in Madrid. A Sound Swarm is conjured to make noise, where again it falls on deaf ears.
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The Old Continent
We resist Nationalism Ungeographic, navigate globalization's watery artery at the Strait of Gibraltar, dock at a former North African pirate republic, make pilgrimage to the Djemaa el Fnaa, meet our sister ship on an Atlantic volcano, and transform the Arka Kinari into a floating artwork by Shrine
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Story, Narration, Audio production and Sound Design by Grey Filastine
Story Editing...
Things Go South
Shanghai’d crew, smuggled persons, stains on the horizon, storms in the sea. From the North Sea towards North Africa, the first voyage of Arka Kinari goes south in more ways than one.
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Story, Narration, Audio production and Sound Design by Grey Filastine
Story Editing and Sound Design Contribution by Rabia Williams
Series Production and Graphic design by Mat Jacob
Featuring the Gu...
Season 1 Recap, Season 2 Coming Soon!
A 3-minute recap of the first season. Set sail with second season on the equinox, 20th September, 2026.
1.5 And They Will Come
In the season finale, Arka Kinari takes form, gravity, and momentum. We become many, as an international team of sleepless masochists gather to refit the ship under constant police harassment in the mega-port of Rotterdam. They will come and we will build it.
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Script, narration, audio production and sound design by Grey Filastine
Story Editing by Raka Ibrahim
Season Production & Graphic Design by Mat Jacob
Featuring the music of:<...
1.4 Burn The Ships
We cross the point of no return, foreclose other futures, and begin a worldwide dragnet for the right ship. During this hunt we hear the fascinating backstories of other people seduced by the sea.
Script, narration, audio production and sound design by Grey Filastine
Story editing by Raka Ibrahim
Season production by Mat Jacob
Featuring the music of:
Quemar las Naves by Mohama Saz Senéscence by Filastine & Nova
The Last Redoubt by Filastine Some Fake Turkish Pop generated by Filastine The Freaks by Deadwood
A...
1.3 The Beach of Broken Dreams
Discount time travel. How the shipping container birthed globalization and strangled the sailing ship. Shipbuilding with the boogeymen. Designing a 21st-century ‘wayang kulit’, the art of music, story, light and shadow. ~~~~~~
Script, narration, audio production and sound design by: Grey Filastine
Additional story editing by: Raka Ibrahim
Season production & graphic design by: Mat Jacob
Created onboard Arka Kinari while anchored at the ports of Cirebon (Java, ID) often as the guest of Smiljan Cafe, and in Serangan (Bali, ID), and in Kochi (Kerala, IN) as a visiting artist at the Lalithkala Akad...
1.2 Bottoms Up
How to transform a hazy dream into a real thing? By learning from who came before. From showboats to utopian sea-steaders, pirate radio vessels to the dodgy business of “flags of convenience," Bottoms Up gets dirty with wood and steel, sweat and study.
Script, narration, audio production and sound design by Grey Filastine
Story editing and sound design contributions by Rabia Williams
Additional story editing by Raka Ibrahim
Season production & Graphic Design by Mat Jacob
Created onboard Arka Kinari while anchored at the ports of Serangan (Bali, ID) and Ci...
1.1 Pilot Charts
Meet your captain & narrator, find out why we chose to abandon the stage for the sea, and why we chose to sail within the Indonesian archipelago. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the waters are already rising.
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Introduction (first episode out June 21, 2026)
In a ship’s log remixed for deep listening, listeners are immersed into the true and ongoing voyage of Arka Kinari, an ancient sailing ship transformed into a cultural platform to sound the alarm for the climate crisis. You’ll explore seas and sounds, visit mega-ports and stilt villages, navigate through cyclones and plastic gyres, anchor in post-nuclear atolls, be hosted by sultans, threatened by soldiers, and blessed by shamans. You won’t know where this story ends, because we don’t know either.
A creation of Grey Filastine. Launching June 21, 2026, with new seasons dropping each sol...
