In this episode of New Voices Elinam.Yaa guides listeners on a voyage by sea, moving with water, memory and motion.

The journey draws from a real and almost unbelievable story: a cargo ship carrying synthesizers and musical equipment that never reached its destination, washing up instead along the African coast, often linked to Cabo Verde. What followed wasn’t loss, but transformation. Instruments were redistributed into communities, schools and gathering spaces, quietly reshaping how sound was made, shared and imagined.

From there, the episode flows through Afro-fusion, traditional rhythms meet global sound systems, where synths, drums and voices drift between coastlines. This is music shaped by tide, migration and exchange.

Threaded through the journey are reflections on cultural liberation, presence and repetition, with figures like Amílcar Cabral grounding the episode in the idea that freedom is also sonic, imaginative and communal.

Spotlighted guest mix: Sound.xpansion A name synonymous with dancefloor electricity and deep groove. Drawing from African electronic music, Afro-house, Detroit house, jazz and baile funk, his selections move like water — fluid, rhythmic and charged — keeping the floor in motion from start to finish.