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Band - Nova
Title - Utopica Musa
Label - Cold Meat Industry
Format - CD
Year - 2001
Genre - Folk, Gothic, Ethereal
Italy has proved to be a stronghold for music that blend gothic ethereal moods with medieval romanticism. After Ataraxia and Gothica, Cold Meat Industry sidelabel Cruel Moon have found another exponent of this style in Nova, though their swirling music refuses to let itself be defined by such loose categorization. A teamwork between Romeo Cosser and Chiara Ferrari, Nova have existed since 1997 and already earned several prizes for originality and innovation in national music contests. Their sound sees an interlacement between synths and voice: melancholic electronics and ethnic/tribal percussion paints an emotional backdrop on which lyrics laden with influences from past aesthetical movements such as existentialism, symbolism and the decadents are applied. Nova have good reasons for their ambiguous name, seeing as their style represents something new - "nova" in Italian - to which can be added that this CD will see them rise from local obscurity to international stardom - like an exploding supernova! Here is a little of what the magazines wrote:
"There is something impossible to catch, sweetly winding and changing in Nova's melodies. Unreal sounds, fairies of the Unconscious stroking you with melancholy, entangling you in an embrace made of sadness and existential spleen... "
"A tender and persuasive voice that contrasts stridently with melancholic, nocturnal and arcane sound canvas, forming obscure atmospheres and echoes of "obscure ethnic", where purple red vortex become gradually black. Like two Masters of Ceremonies dressed in velvet.."
"Our mind float on the sound canvas skilfully created by Romeo, which seem to extend endlessly, in this ethereal immensity, sometimes ploughed with noisy lightning. Chiara's melodious voice is like a graceful and elegant flight of a gull playing with open wings and going with the stream. In every song we can find harmony, elegance, wadded sensations..."
"Nova are very able to move among new wave, ethereal, Baroque suggestions and semi-apocalyptic folk without being choked, on the contrary, offering suggestive and well sketched images..."
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