Sergio Ortega
New York City, New York, United States | SELF
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Long Way From Anywhere is the debut album of Sergio Ortega. A multi-talented musician, the album showcases his singing, songwriting, and guitar playing.
Long Way From Anywhere begins by drawing listeners in with an intricate yet catchy guitar part in “Don’t You Know”. The album is filled with fantastic and driving guitar parts. On the other hand, Ortega’s laid-back vocals sing captivating and relatable lyrics that tell a different story with each song. With a simple instrument arrangement featuring vocals, guitar, and even a toy piano line, the title track “Long Way From Anywhere” is a perfect example of his skills as a songwriter. Ending the album with the appropriately titled track “So Long Now” leaves the listener with yet another catchy guitar part and a mellow vocal melody.
Having toured with several big name artists, Sergio Ortega is highly polished in his craft. Long Way From Anywhere is sure to be a success and take the rock scene by storm.
The Review: 9/10
Can’t Miss Tracks
- Don’t You Know
- Relevance
- Little Miss MY Way
- So Long Now
- Long Way From Anywhere
The Big Hit
- Long Way From Anywhere
Review by Liz Lohnes - Blues Rock Review
Long Way From Anywhere is the debut album of Sergio Ortega. A multi-talented musician, the album showcases his singing, songwriting, and guitar playing.
Long Way From Anywhere begins by drawing listeners in with an intricate yet catchy guitar part in “Don’t You Know”. The album is filled with fantastic and driving guitar parts. On the other hand, Ortega’s laid-back vocals sing captivating and relatable lyrics that tell a different story with each song. With a simple instrument arrangement featuring vocals, guitar, and even a toy piano line, the title track “Long Way From Anywhere” is a perfect example of his skills as a songwriter. Ending the album with the appropriately titled track “So Long Now” leaves the listener with yet another catchy guitar part and a mellow vocal melody.
Having toured with several big name artists, Sergio Ortega is highly polished in his craft. Long Way From Anywhere is sure to be a success and take the rock scene by storm.
The Review: 9/10
Can’t Miss Tracks
- Don’t You Know
- Relevance
- Little Miss MY Way
- So Long Now
- Long Way From Anywhere
The Big Hit
- Long Way From Anywhere
Review by Liz Lohnes - Blues Rock Review
Discography
Long Way From Anywhere (Single released November 23, 2010)
Long Way From Anywhere (LP released December 11, 2010)
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The story of Sergio Ortega’s debut album “Long Way From Anywhere” is a classic one. Hailing from the Midwest. Learning to play guitar while poring over records by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Warren Haynes, Danny Gatton, Hendrix, Clapton. Ortega immersed himself even more attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
A move to New York City continued the dream, and those guitar skills served him well on the road with artists such as Lesley Roy (Jive Records) and The Pretty Reckless (Interscope) featuring Taylor Momsen (of Gossip Girl fame).
Touring was the perfect place to try his own hand at songwriting. As that notebook filled up with song after song it became clear that he should do a record of his own.
These songs grew into the album that is “Long Way From Anywhere”.
Drawing comparisons to Jason Mraz and and a more-rockin Jack Johnson, Ortega assembled some of NYC’s best musicians to accompany him, Malcolm Gold (Sheryl Crow, Dan Zanes, Days Of The New), Josh Dodes (Marc Cohn, Julian Velard) and Aaron Steele (Mos Def, Russell Malone), the songs beautifully came to life in these more-than-capable hands. Producing the project was Robert L. Smith (Neil Young, Rickie Lee Jones, David Bowie, U2) of Defy Recordings in New York.
The first single is the title track, with a video for the song currently in production. Plans for a Spring tour are in the works, and the album is available from Chava Recordings on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Emusic and Spotify.
For more information and booking, go to www.sergioortegamusic.com
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