Brooklyn producer Lamin Fofana‘s new EP, Another World, utilizes the current mass migration of African refugees towards an often uninviting, even hostile, Europe, to craft a sonic exploration of “the feeling of being adrift at sea somewhere between catastrophe and paradise.” The last track on this release, “Plume (Realist Mix),” seems, on the surface, to lean towards the realm of paradise, but a closer listen reveals the chaotic and frenetic feelings of false hope that could manifest in the psyche of one who is desperately searching for a (perhaps unattainable) better future. Here, Fofana carries out one of my favorite challenges in dance-oriented, instrumental music—to prove that a social message can be conveyed, and empathy for others heightened, through the pure subjectivity of sound, perhaps more effectively than any think piece could.

You can purchase “Another World,” and read Fofana’s full artist statement, via his Bandcamp page.