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Alex Otaola (Alejandro Otaola) is a rock and jazz musician from the Mexican capital, Mexico City. During his career he has been a member of numerous bands such as Santa Sabina,[1] La Barranca[2] San Pascualito Rey and Cuca. In 2007 he started a solo career with the audiovisual CD/DVD 'Fractales'. In 2010 he released a live (at Mexico's Cineteca Nacional) cd of music for Dziga Vertov's 'Hombre de la Cámara'. 2013 saw the release of the 'iNFiNiTO' app (a never-the-same-twice album) with Mexico's top jazz singer Iraida Noriega.

Alex Otaola
Background information
Birth name	Alejandro Otaola
Genres	Rock, Jazz, Pop
Instrument(s)	keyboards, guitars
Years active	1995-present
Labels	Intolerancia
Website	alexotaola.com

Santa Sabina

Otaola joined Santa Sabina as a replacement for their original guitarist Pablo Valero in 1995. During his time with the band he contributed to the following albums:[1]

• Concierto Acustico
• Babel
• MTV Unplugged
• Mar Adentro En La Sangre
• Espiral
• En Vivo: XV Anniversario

La Barranca

In 1999, while still working with Santa Sabina, Alex Otaola joined La Barranca. He became 2nd guitarist and keyboardist behind Jose Manuel Aguilera. When La Barranca was dissolved in 2006, Otaola had been involved in writing and performing for four albums:[2]

• Rueda de Los Tiempos
• Denzura
• Cielo Protector
• El Fluir
• Yendo Al Cine Solo, a solo project by Jose Manuel Aguilera.

Involvement in other projects

Over the years Alex Otaola has performed as a guest musician on a number of rock, jazz and pop projects such as:

• Petroleo
• Panteon Rococo
• Monocordio
• Regina Orozco
• El Haragan
• Jorge "Ziggy" Fratta
• Sr. Gonzalez
• Cecilia Toussaint
• LabA (Alonso Arreola)
• Forseps (José Fors)
• Klezmerson
• El Clan
• Yokozuna
• Los Dorados
• Zoe

Solo career

In 2007, Alex Otaola released a solo project titled Fractales published by the Mexican independent label Intolerancia. The album combines improvised music on guitar and guitar synthesizer with fully composed instrumental songs, including contributions played by former band colleagues from Santa Sabina and La Barranca.

References

• Alejandro Otaola at AllMusic
• Alejandro Otaola at Godin Player News (godinguitars.com)
• Santa Sabina bio at AMG
• La Barranca at re-usa.com
• La Barranca at Radios.nocheltina.com

External links

• Official website of Alex Otaola

На других языках

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- [en] Alex Otaola

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[es] Alejandro Otaola

Alejandro Otaola es un ejecutante y compositor mexicano, conocido por su trabajo al lado de Santa Sabina, agrupación a la que pertenece desde 1994, y del grupo de rock La Barranca, a la que se integró en 1998 y se separó en 2007;ese mismo año edita su primer trabajo (multimedia) solista Fractales. En el 2008 es invitado al XV Festival Internacional de Video Arte en Casablanca, Marruecos. Es el primer guitarrista mexicano cuya música ha sido incluida en el cd-sampler de la revista española 'Guitarra Total'. Actualmente se encuentra integrado al grupo de rock San Pascualito Rey próximo a editar un nuevo disco titulado "Valiente" además de estar promoviendo y distribuyendo gratuitamente su segundo disco solista El hombre de la cámara un trabajo grabado en vivo en el 2010 en la Cineteca Nacional durante el ciclo "Bandas Sonoras a Ritmo de Rock". Es guitarrista de la banda tapatía Cuca,[1] después de la salida de Galileo Ochoa en el 2014; con dicha banda ha realizado 3 álbumes.

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