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It's really interesting how different seas can feel even though they're basically all connected. To me, in the UK, The Sea as a concept is a mother, but The North Sea is male (at least from the Newcastle area), The Channel plays about more and maybe smirks, and from my side the Atlantic feels dark green. Ive not yet bonded with the North Sea here in Scotland, despite living the closest i ever have. I don't know if I should walk out into it and paddle about or read stories about it. Ah, The Sea.

That tickles me too. That, geographically speaking, there is only one ocean on this planet. Every “separate” ocean we identify is technically connected to all the others, so really, The Ocean as we know it is really a singular body of water.

And yet, I think part of the reason why it feels so different in different places is because it’s not a monolith. It contains multitudes, in the form of ecosystems, species distribution, current patterns, temperature gradients, salinity...

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Atlantic has warm water flowing up into it from the tropical seas. In that same hemisphere, the Pacific has frigid water flowing down from the Arctic.

I think, too, the attitudes of the people living around it have also helped to shape the Ocean’s various souls. Where I live, on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America, the ocean is seen as a place to go to rest and relax; to rejoice in the heat, the freedom, of summer; to tan and play with your friends and family. 

And sure, part of that mindset comes from the fact that, due to the way the climate lines up, the Mid-Atlantic coast is the perfect place to do all of the above in the summer; it was naturally that kind of place. But I think that generations of people coming for that purpose has influenced the spirit of the Atlantic in that region, making Her all the more the loving--yet still dangerous and fiercely powerful--motherly spirit I experience.

I’m sure if I were to talk to someone from the New England area, where the beaches are rocky and the summers are cooler, they would have a very different opinion of the Atlantic’s spirit. And they’d be right, of course, because She’s a different Atlantic to them. Maybe She’s even a He to them.

I’m sure your Atlantic is very different to mine, too.

Ugh, I love this stuff. Ocean feels and regional animism.

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I’m not saying that the Atlantic won’t drown your ass. She absolutely will, if that is Her whim that day.

But at least She has the decency to downplay Her brutal might. 

To invite us in with warm sand beaches, bright sunlight, gentle breezes--as if to say to us “I am a powerful mistress, but not a cruel one.” To let us splash and dive in Her foam-capped waves and only occasionally dragging us under or smashing us against the shore.

Sure, She could kill you. Sure, She could kill you and make it so they never find your body. She could, She could, oh goodness me, She could. 

but She probably won’t

not in this moment, at least

and probably not in the next one

or the one after that

and probably not even in any of the moments that you are in Her waters.

Maybe She’ll never hurt you or even so much as scare you

but She always could

So enjoy your day at the beach. Play in Her waves. Bask on Her sand. The Atlantic is powerful. The Atlantic is loving.

And She almost definitely won’t fuck you up.

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Moonloop: Devocean // Listenable Records

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"Devocean" es el segundo trabajo de estudio de los barceloneses Moonloop, y supone un serio paso adelante respecto a su ya de por sí disfrutable disco de début, publicado cinco años atrás. Muy respetados en la escena local, Moonloop aún no gozan del reconocimiento general que probablemente merece su calidad musical, pero cabe confiar en que esto cambie gracias al discazo que es este "Devocean",…

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