This is the Sea

I am back. I was thinking of other "summer tunes" in my life. I would add the Waterboys album "This is the Sea" to the list. I travelled to Europe in 1986 and brought that album on a cassette (Level 42 "World Machine" was on the other side). I love that album, though I have never got it on CD or MP3. What is wrong with me? I have "A Pagan Place" (also excellent) and "Fisherman's Blues" (enjoyable in a Celtic way) on disc, but not my favorite.

There were two sort of epiphanic moments with that album. The first occurred as I was sitting on the train I had boarded in Port Bou, Spain after traveling from France. I sat in my seat, put on my headphones and hit play. The album starts with "Don't Bang the Drum" which itself begins with the sound of Spanish horns. There I was in Spain, hearing the Spanish horns. How synchronistic was that?

We move ahead about a month and I am working on two hours sleep, waiting to catch a bus, which became sharing a cab/car with four other people, to get to the port on Santorini to catch a ferry to Ios. It is about six in the morning and I am finally on the boat. I am sitting in the sun, put on the old Walkman (what an anachronism now) and catch the end of the Waterboys album and the song, "This is the Sea". I am sitting there listening to "...and that was the river. And this is the sea" while I was on the sea, the Aegean Sea to be exact. Freakily, synchronistic, ne c'est pas?

So, I wanted to add that one. Oh yeah, a birthday greeting to Cori, happy birthday to you, if you are indeed out there.

Ciao!