I first met Brendan many years ago when I was still living in Los Angeles. I'm happy to see that he has continued to focus on his music career, which has been defined by a restless, creative curiosity as well as a "one-man-band" production aesthetic and musical philosophy. Long before arriving at the mountain valley headquarters of Ashland’s Avian Recording Company, O’Hara established himself as a fixture of the Florida music scene. His history is one of constant movement: ranging from intimate, solo-piano residencies and soulful live looping to leading high-energy ensembles that blur the lines between jazz, hip-hop, and indie-rock.

This extensive background in live performance – marked by years of sharpening his improvisational instincts across the Southeast –informs the sophisticated "deep-pocket" grooves found in his recent work. His debut single for Avian, "Souled Out," distills these years of experimentation into something as visceral as it is universal.

We will not stand idly by as a heavy-handed, consumption-driven capitalism teaches us to love a screen more than we love ourselves.

Equations designed to define our material
Reek of a time not enlightened but imperial
Stand back step away abandon the pot of gold
Breathe three times and say...
My soul will not be sold
My soul will not be sold

O'Hara continues to evolve his sound, transitioning from his Florida roots into a definitive new era of soulful, West Coast alternative music.

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Courtesy of Avian Recording Company.