The Opposite Side of the Sea is the debut studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 from Israeli singer Oren Lavie

Oren Lavie

Oren Lavie is an Israeli singer, songwriter, playwright, and theatre director. His music video for "Her Morning Elegance" earned a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for "Best Short Form Music Video". On March 10, 2009, Oren released his debut album, The Opposite Side of the Sea, in the United States...

. It was released in January/February first in Europe without major success but then was released in the USA on 10 March 2009 by his own label A Quarter Past Wonderful, named under the song of the same name. The label signed a distribution deal with Adrenaline/Rocket science

Aerospace engineering

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 in order to promote the album.

Before releasing it, the album was available for digital download on January 29 at the iTunes

ITunes

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 store.

Track listing

1. "Her Morning Elegance"
2. "The Man who Isn't There"
3. "The Opposite Side of the Sea"
4. "Locked in a Room"
5. "Ruby Rises"
6. "A Dream Within a Dream"
7. "Trouble Don't Rhyme"
8. "A Short Goodbye"
9. "Don't Let Your Hair Grow Too Long"
10. "Blue Smile"
11. "Unhidden Track: Quarter Past Wonderful"

Release history

Country	Date
Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...	27 January 2007
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	5 February 2007
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	10 March 2009