In 2006, a shipping container fell off of a vessel and washed thousands of bags of nacho chips ashore along Hatteras Island. Also, this newsletter is beginning its fourth year of existence.
One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths