Alex Otaola

Alex Otaola is a rock and jazz rock musician from the Mexican capital, Mexico City. During his career he has been a member of numerous bands such as Santa Sabina, La Barranca San Pascualito Rey and Cuca. In 2007 he started a solo career with the audiovisual CD/DVD 'Fractales'. In 2010 he released a live cd of music for Dziga Vertov's 'Hombre de la Cámara'. 2013 saw the release of the 'iNFiNiTO' app with Mexico's top jazz singer Iraida Noriega.

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:

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:

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
Forseps
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.