Okay, so, you’ve got music hitting your eardrums. Sometimes it's like a rogue pigeon landing right outside your window – startling, unexpected, but maybe interesting? Ozzient's “Peace, Not War” single feels a little like that pigeon, only this one’s carrying a tiny, insistent megaphone yelling about, well, peace and not war. Obvious, sure, but when was the last time obvious actually soaked in? https://open.spotify.com/album/4mb3AYjTpp2SN5lzOqy5e0?si=cJzQ6WgVTkWdiKTkvgN1uw This track...

There is an endearing, unvarnished sincerity running through ErickOscar’s new album, “Hold The Light”, the kind that catches you off guard when you were expecting ordinary background noise. A Panamanian-born songwriter who has spent over three decades quietly building a life in the United States, ErickOscar approaches music not as a sterile exercise in studio perfection, but as an open workshop of personal history....