Songwriter Oren Lavie, who has drawn comparisons in the press to Nick Drake, the Beatles and Crosby Stills & Nash, will release his debut album “The Opposite Side Of The Sea” in 2009 on his own imprint, A Quarter Past Wonderful, which he started with tastemaker and current KCRW host Chris Douridas. Says Douridas, a 27-year veteran of radio, “I've never been so motivated to help an artist get his music out into the world until I met Oren. He is incredibly special. It's rare every song in an artist's catalogue moves me like Oren’s do."