Search:

I'm glad to announce a new album called Black Pyramid that I have written and recorded in the last two months. The album is released exclusively as a digital download, and it's available on my...

Thanks! Well, I'd say in this album we offer a view to the past and a step to the future. I wrote the long suite around 15 years ago, and, while there's some parts following the style of the material...

From press release: "Dear friends, we finally have another October Equus album. This album includes one long composition signed by me and five shorter compositions signed by Víctor Rodríguez. My long...

It's already available the second album by Seaorm, called "Forgotten Shrines". The group's first album featured a suite of short compositions inspired by Lake Baikal's largest island, Olkhon, and the...

Friends in the USA, Wayside has copies of Angel on a Tower:
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Ontalva-Angel-Angel-on-a-Tower-CD__OctoberXArt-spc-ao-spc-03.aspx

A very good review on Disagreement:
http://www.disagreement.net/reviews2021/angelontalva_angelonatower.html

Very nice words, thanks. I think the easiness and naturality comes partly because the great musicians playing in the album, I gave them the scores and they took them to another level. The bassoonist,...

Thanks friends, here's a review (in dutch), the first one I receive: https://carrysnewundergroundmusic.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-angel-ontalva-angel-on-tower.html
For the moment, Wayside will have...

Hello, there's a new Ángel Ontalva CD called "Angel on a tower". The musicians are almost the same team who recorded October Equus "Presagios": John Falcone on bassoon, Yolanda Alba on flute, Víctor...

Thanks guys, hope you enjoy it. And thanks JKL2000, actually I delayed the release of this album for doing my best with the cover, that tries to reflects the Olkhon Island's atmosphere.

Thanks Simon! I'm very happy of this trio, Ivan is an amazing drummer and Arkady is great too, both super creative and powerful musicians.

Here is a bit of us live with the guys in Moscow:

...

Hello friends, I am the guitarist of the avant-prog band October Equus and also I have done several collaborations with the russian space-rock band Vespero in the last few years.

After our Ángel...

Yes, I hope too, the last concert I did was 24th March in Irkutsk, precisely playing the Shaman Rock suite solo with loops. It's being long.
By the way, here's a collaboration between October Equus...

Nice to hear. A new solo album and one or two new October Equus are in the way for 2021. The solo one is a bit in the style of Tierra Quemada, with mostly same band than in Presagios (OE's bass and...

Thanks for the nice words. In the last years i used to pass half the year in Russia, until the Covid forced me to stay here since April. In the case of Sada and some of Carta Marina too, I sent them...

A couple of new albums with the guys, one released two or three months ago and another will be available in middle December:
14595 14594
Live in Astrakhan is mostly music from Carta Marina and...

Yes, we write all except solos. We use to write some sketches for the drums too, although the drummer tends to give the final shape.

My personal OE favourite is maybe Permafrost. I think there's...

New album by Ángel Ontalva in octoberXart Records, "Tierra Quemada"

This is an extension of the album 'Mundo Flotante', which Angel Ontalva released a few years ago. The music is inspired by the...

New on octoberXart, October Equus "Live at the R.I.O. Festival"

The complete performance at the Rock In Opposition Festival 2014.
...

Available too on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon...

If your main interest is on cute girls maybe you could try this other RIO festival :D: http://www.rio-carnival.net/
4873

Laser's Edge, concerning to that album: "Listening to this I hear a band burning with fire."

Well, I was there...

October Equus "Live at the R.I.O. Festival"

This is their complete live performance at the R.I.O. Festival 2014.

Wayside Music: "...to my ears, this is a REALLY good set."
Laser's Edge:...

Some videos from the October Equus performance at the Rock In Opposition Festival 2014:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12t9x-3LfDk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cHu-WngzeE

New on octoberXart:

Filthy Habits Ensemble - Plays Stravinsky 'L'Histoire du Soldat'

CD, 8 pages booklet, jewel case.

Excellent band from Barcelona including members of October Equus and...

Laser's Edge opinion: 'Personally I like this new direction far more than what they were doing before. Highly recommended.'

https://www.lasercd.com/node/10586

October Equus Quartet 'Isla Purgatorio' CD on Wayside: 'A stupendous release - maybe my personal favorite of a number of great releases by them so far. Hugely recommended!'...

Well, for some reason the album give the impression of being less composed than the OE albums, but I would say it's 80% composed. It's a more naked album, and as it's in fact another different band...

Two weeks from now I hope.

October Equus Quartet 'Isla Purgatorio' is at last available on CD and digital download:

https://octoberxart.bandcamp.com/album/isla-purgatorio

USA: Wayside, Syn-Phonic.
Japan: Disk Union,...

'Medusa', a new track from the forthcoming October Equus Quartet 'Isla Purgatorio' album. Hope you like it. We will receive the CDs next Monday!
https://soundcloud.com/angelontalva/medusa

octoberXart is a 'domestic' label which we created in May 2012 in order to release the music of our band, October Equus, and related projects. Since then until now, after one year and some months, we...

Hello friends,

Very soon will be released a new October Equus Quartet album called Isla Purgatorio. The music presented here is maybe more direct than the usual in October Equus (but conveniently...

Hello,

we are mixing the new October Equus Quartet 'Isla Purgatorio' album. The definitive date for release it is October 31, and will be released on Clamshell Records, a spanish label...

I discovered those Cuneiform bands on some moment around 1990, at the same time that Ambiances Magnetiques, another big influence... Well at that point I was playing guitar from more or less ten...

Friends, thanks for the positive comments. I find that Permafrost have a better balance than Saturnal.
If you want to listen to Permafrost you can do it in Progstreaming, together with my solo...

The avant-prog band October Equus have released a new album called Permafrost.

2114

The tracks are:

1.Erosive forces of wind and water 05:14
2.Lead poisoning 05:14
3.Boots, nails,...