1 hour listen made up of 17 tracks – DL & 20pp booklet
Touch V33.90
Releases 2nd January 2026
Planet Ocean – A new album from Chris Watson and a listening Party have just been announced DL & 20pp pdf booklet
Pre-order: chriswatsonreleases.bandcamp.com/album/planet-ocean
RSVP Listening Party: chriswatsonreleases.bandcamp.com/merch/planet-ocean-listening-party
In the late 1960’s the first colour photographs of earth taken from outer space revealed this to be a blue planet. It took images captured from 98,000 nautical miles away to trigger a new focus on environmental issues. This attention also revealed that more than 70% of this planet is occupied by the seas and oceans, the largest and most sound rich collection of habitats.
‘Planet Ocean’ is a celebration of the sounds, rhythms and textures of the oceans worldwide, a gathering of tidal voices pushed and pulled by gravitational forces from above and below the surface.
The photographs that complement ‘Planet Ocean’ are by circumstance land and water-based. They are intended as a parallel narrative to the sound recordings, deliberately 20 in number so as not to fit with any notion of pairing with a specific location. There is a chemistry between the close-up and the epic vistas together with personal moments at the margins by the water’s edge. That seductive and dreadful beauty – are you going in? – “no, it looks freezing!” – but actually the world is melting in front of our eyes.
Wave wash releases negative ions into the air and together with the associated sound they bestow a sense of well-being and stillness when faced by this awesome power. 57 years on from 1969 we need to remind ourselves of the ancient relationship we have with ‘Planet Ocean’. A place where we evolved from and which continues to support all life on earth and in the waters all around.
