Last year we came across a trailer for a film called ALBATROSS by Chris Jordan. It depicted the devastation that plastic waste brought on the oceans and aquatic life, and we were immensely moved by it. After discussing these issues with our friend and composer, Ryan Probert, For Our Oceans was born.
Blood and Sand
‘A writer friend of mine once wrote to me about how he had become preoccupied with the sea. He had stayed in a hotel uncomfortably close to a beach, and recalled how the power of the sea had begun to frighten him: "The small dirt cliff on which the building perched looked tenuous and fragile from the beach, and with each large wave I would consider what it could do if only it crashed against the soil; it would be eaten away in a matter of days, maybe hours, and I would imagine the building crashing down into the waves once enough of it was without a base.” The sea will forever be more immense, more unfathomable, more powerful than any human comprehension. My grandfather sailed the seas, he too knew this, he visited all but four nations of the world, knew that it could drag him down at any moment and even saw an exploding ammunition ship wipe Halifax from the map. People will never destroy the sea, but we will lose so much. We will ruin the bounty it brings us, it will raise up and swallow our homes. The greatest trove of life in the known universe, with all its diversity, is being poisoned as I write.’ Ryan Probert