Radia #1084 - Silver Epiphany by Irrflug Featuring Jarboe & Blixa Bargeld

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This episode is a contribution by Radio Helsinki.

A combination of texts taken from the 2023 book Lügendetektor/Lie Detector and new texts from a work called “Silver”.

Voice: Blixa Bargeld, Jarboe. Musik, sounddesign, noise, chaos: Irrflug (Mark Kanak).

An undulating journey into the cosmos, featuring shattering, incessant and metallic soundscapes. Drawn from Mark Kanak’s 2023 book “Lie Detector” as well as 2025’s “Silver” (by Irrflug), much of the material moves in the silver and grey register, where surfaces hint at coherence without actually achieving it; a slow treading to an inevitable end.

The voices of Blixa Bargeld and Jarboe interact in what is almost cold contempt while the piece revolves around questions of falsehoods and truth, what is not really known or can be, and the “epiphany” moment of realizing that in the end, the world wants to deceive and be deceived…and always will be.