Releases
Detached Objects (2026)
Detached Objects unfolds as a dialogue between unaccompanied guitar works and intricate layers of synthesizers, drum machines and percussion. While the interplay between guitar and synth has long been part of Rojas’ musical identity, here it moves to the foreground—shaping an atmosphere that is ethereal, emotive, and reflective, occasionally suffused with a sense of melancholy and dystopia.
Imagine Nels Cline meets the soundtrack to Blade Runner...
Music for 22 (2022)
Music for guitar + string quartet (mostly). Part chamber music, part jazz improv, part ambient soundscape. Featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow, Peggy Lee, Meredith Bates, Josh Zubot, and others.
Gran Kasa (2020)
An exploration of Latin jazz, Prog, chamber, psychedelia and Afro Peruvian influences. Featuring guest vocals by Susana Baca,
Moondog (2021)
A tribute to the music of Moondog. Mostly solo guitar
GALA (2016)
Trio explorations and compositional experiments
Translation Studies EP (2026)
With the EP ‘Translation Studies’, Vancouver based composer/guitarist Alvaro Rojas begins a new chapter in his work; exploring how simple rules inspired by nature can yield beauty and complexity. Developed during studies with composers/sound artists Susie Ibarra and Jake Landau, Rojas explores recursive and self-similar processes found in branching, spirals and paper folding patterns, and creates a set of pieces that is a statement on its own, as well as a preview of future investigations. Elements of these natural processes are translated into musical material, and slowly unravel through 4 reflective pieces for solo guitar, and 1 for guitar quartet.
Plays Reid Anderson’s “The Vastness of Space” (2024)
A guitar trio reimagining of Reid Anderson's modern classic "The Vastness of Space". Originally released in 2000, here, Rojas, bassist James Meger (Sick Boss), and drummer Dan Gaucher (Fond of Tigers) pay tribute to the cult favourite with raw and gritty interpretations of the album's 9 tracks.