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Artist
Oscar Salas
8+ albums
about
Oscar started to play guitar at the age of 14 years old, self taught. It wasn't until the age of 17 years old when he enrolled to the conservatory of music "Escuela Superior de Música José Angel Lamas", in his hometown, Caracas, Venezuela. He learned classical guitar from his teacher, Professor Jose Luis Presa, along music theory. At the same time he was curious about jazz and progressive music so he attend some clases with Alvaro Falcon, a renowned guitarist in his country and Latin America, and studied electric guitar techniques from several books and educational videos made by his personal guitar heroes: John Petrucci, Kiko Loureiro, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson. In 2013 he moved to Spain and in 2018 released his first self produced and home recorded EP entitled "Resolved State", which is a 5 instrumental progressive rock/metal songs. In 2019 released a single "Intentional Glitch", a second EP "At This Time" and a version of a Christmas single "Silent Night". In early 2020 he released a single called "The Light Within", while started working in his third EP "Lockdown", which is a conceptual project related to the current pandemic and set to be released on October 2020. He is in continuous learning from his main influences and new modern guitarist that bring a new life and vision to music: Tosin Abasi, Plini, Aarton Marshall (Intervals), Ed Garcia (Vitalism), Periphery. His main goal is to start play his music live to gain exposure and collaborate with other independent artist,
