The Ocean is signed to Pelagic Records, which is run and owned by its The Ocean guitarist Robin Staps. The label will be putting out a sampler called In The Twilight, These Rocks Have Teeth on September 29, and the sampler will feature an unreleased The Ocean song called "Turritopsis Dohrnii." The track was written and recorded during the 2013 sessions for Pelagic, and is instrumental.
Here's how Staps describes the song.
“Turritopsis dohrnii is a jellyfish that lives in the Mediterranean; it is the only immortal species on Earth. Jellyfish are weird creatures.They start their lives as polyps, which are basically something closer to a plant than to an animal, something that grows on a rock. These polyps reproduce asexually, by cell division. The result becomes the free-swimming medusa, a jellyfish.
Jellies then reproduce sexually, before they die … except this little guy here. Once the adult form of the species have reproduced, they revert back into their juvenile polyp state. They shrink, their tentacles disappear and they sink to the ocean floor to start their unique life cycle all over again — and not just once, but infinitely.
This track begins and ends with the same part, reflecting that eternal cycle. Learning about this tiny creature made me think about how we are desperately striving for physical rejuvenation and intellectual immortality — the other side of the coin is the fact that we barely see any old people these days. In a city like Berlin, everyone is young, healthy and pretty. Elder people get locked away in homes that most of us will never get to see or visit, unless we have family members unfortunate enough to become old.”
Pre-order a physical copy of the sampler here.
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