ALDO NOVA announces his new band lineup which features, Aldo Nova, guitars and vocals, Jack Frost, (ex-Seven Witches-Savatage) guitars and vocals, (ex-Stryper, Of Gods and Monsters and Stormer), bass and vocals, Billy Carmassi (Aldo Nova band 1982 to 2020-Jet Red and brother of Denny Carmassi) on drums and a keyboard player, whose name cannot be disclosed yet but he also has an amazing pedigree, extremely well know and is a monster player, when they begin touring as soon as the lockdowns are lifted due to COVID permit it and things get back to normal.

In Aldo’s words, “Between me, Tim Gaines and Billy Carmassi, we were already quite a unit, but when Jack joined the band, it was as if he was the detonator that made us an Atomic Bomb of a band.” He also says that “When Jack joined the band, I felt a completely new energy, and when Billy and Tim met him digitally, they both agreed that he was our guy and we’re eager to go out and literally destroy, which is the mindset that we, as a band, have when we will play live.”

Nova also announced his plans to do a large full-scale production virtual live show in 2021, and when he says large scale production, he means a full lighting rig over a large stage with one of the leading lighting designers in Canada, Pierre E. Roy, with video directed and edited by Christian Jacques who did Aldo’s videos for, “I’m a Survivor”, “When All is Said and Done” and his “Monkey on Your Back, live band-Livestream COVID 19 session.

Nova doesn’t really think that the drive-in shows that everybody claims to be the only way to play live is a good thing for his fans. In his words, “Who wants to go see a band with 5 people crammed in a car listening to the show on their FM radios and not being able to see anything is certainly not the solution, nor the future of Rock. Anyway, I’m from Canada where the winters are brutal so it’ll never work in Canada, nor will it work in the Northern States, so half of your fans can’t see you play when you’re on tour.

Nova plans on doing his virtual live show doing a 3 and ½ hour set playing his albums in their entirety and in the sequence of the album, so as he says, “While most bands play their shows then walk off without playing their hits and waiting for the audience to cheer and clap till they come back to do their hit, which he calls the “cheap shot”, he does things in an entirely different way because as he says, “We on the other hand, we’ll start the show with “Fantasy“ because it’s the first track on side one of the first album.”. He intends to play songs from all his albums, even 6 songs from his rare and obscure instrumental album, “Nova’s Dream” which is considered to be one of his best albums and ending finally with his new Rock Opera, “The Life and Times of Eddie Gage,”

 Also, his virtual show is modeled after Dana White’s UFC fight cards, which is, you pay one price of admission and you can have as many people watching it as you want, as he puts it, “Turn it into a party or a family night, sitting in front of your big screen T.V. with the sound system as loud as you want with everybody having a front-row seat, get a beer, play air guitar, dance, and jokingly he says when we play “Ball and Chain,” you can even make out.

Watch out because 2021 is going to be a year full of surprises with new cutting edge ways to entertain fans from Aldo Nova.

ALDO NOVA has always been an innovator. A creator of music that’s refused to conform to trends or norms. Like all true artists, he takes risks, pushing the boundaries wherever possible.

Today in 2020, Aldo Nova continues to innovate releasing his new single, “Hey Ladi Dadi” on all the digital outlets now.

https://youtu.be/S9XEx605GGQ

or stream on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/album/7LVF8wmCSFRb3qDkhWnl96

In his own words, he describes the song “Hey Ladi Dadi” as” Almost heavy metal but with a hook that’ll have you shaking your head and stomping your feet at the same time”

The song is taken from his 23 song, 1 hour and 53 minute long Rock Opera titled “The Life and Times of Eddie Gage” due out in May of 2021.

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Nova decided in 2008 not to write, produce, or do anything for anyone else but himself and chose to pursue his vision of writing and creating a Rock Opera which, from its inception, was called “The Life and Times of Eddie Gage”

He wrote his first song for it on February 8th, 2008 called “Go On” and continued to write and produce the initial 8 songs that started the project rolling. All 8 of these songs appear in its final form which was finished 12 years later on May 12th of 2020 that also consist of songs written in 2011, 2013, 2015, and the bulk of the album being written in 2019.

In the Rock Opera, he plays all the different characters. Morphing his voice with each different song.

Born Aldo Caporuscio on November 13, 1956, in Montreal, he speaks fluent English, French and Italian, which gives you an idea of his varied talents. Oh, and Aldo is a successful songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, and studio engineer. Talk about a master of all trades.

Influenced by Jimi Hendrix, he got interested in playing the guitar when 13 years old.

At the age of 16, the emerging talent of the teenage Aldo Nova began to blossom when he started to play gigs in local clubs, albeit while working at a day job.

A significant break happened for him at 22 years old when his set of demos which included the songs, “Fantasy”, Fantasy Live Home Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f4rT30YxCU&ab_channel=AldoNova “Heart to Heart” and “Under the Gun” captured the attention of ATV Publishing in 1981.

Now signed as a writer to ATV Publishing, Aldo Nova completed what was really a set of high-grade demos, and now things really began to happen. His recording contract was sold to Portrait Records and Tony Bongiovi was brought in to mix the tapes at his Power Station Studio in New York.

Apart from the drums, Nova played everything on that album, something that became his staple and part of his reputation as a one-man band, something which still hasn’t changed to this day as Nova played and sang everything on “The Life and Times of Eddie Gage” himself but the drums by Lee Levin and bass which were played by Dan Warner, Sylvain Bolduc and Timothy Gaines(ex- Stryper )

His 1st album sold more than two million copies in America, as it peaked at number eight on the chart. The single ‘Fantasy’ reached number 23 in the US chart. On his second album ‘Subject…Aldo Nova’ again proved brilliantly inventive. Once more, Aldo played all the instruments on the recordings except the drums. Once more he showed he was a visionary in the way he used synthesizers in a rock format. This was issued on October 13, 1983, and sold one million albums. Two years later, he put out ‘Twitch’. But then walked away from his relationship with Portrait, refusing to compromise his musical integrity for the sake of any trend that the label wanted.

In 1984 he played on the debut album from Bon Jovi, lending his credibility and guitar chops to the young Bon Jovi’s song and 1st hit “Runaway”. Five years later, Jon Bon Jovi called on him to play on his solo album, the soundtrack to “Youngs Gun 2 where Aldo played a pivotal role in the making of, even writing the main riff on Jon’s song “Blaze of Glory”. As a result, he was signed by Jon Bon Jovi to his new label Jambco, leading to the well-received ‘Blood On The Bricks’ album in 1991.

He has also been a major and constant factor in the career of Celine Dion, as a producer, musician, and writer, with Aldo has written songs for her such as “Your Light”, “Can’t Fight This Feelin’”, “You And I “and, “A Song for You” amongst many others, and also wrote for many top 10 stars including Faith Hill and Clay Aiken who all had number 1 hits with Nova’s songs.

“When Celine Dion made her comeback in 2001, Nova penned “A New Day Has Come”, a song that held the number 1 position in 26 countries for 6 months for her.

Aldo also won a Grammy Award in 1996 as a producer of the Celine Dion album “Falling Into You”, which was Album Of The Year.

In 2018, he decided to come out of the darkness to record his album 2.0 which featured turbocharged versions 6 tracks from his debut album, along with a new song called “I’m a Survivor”. It did get a mixed response. But as he says,” I realized a long time ago that whatever you put out, not everybody will like it, so I don’t stress about it.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOwGG4HiRHk&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=AldoNova

Now in 2020, Aldo Nova has come charging out of the gate again with the release of his song “Hey Ladi Dadi” and nothing will hold him back anymore.

Aldo Nova has never accepted anything less than the highest standards. There are many musicians who’ve sold more records than him. But nobody – NO-ONE – can claim to have more foresight and integrity. He may have only released six albums in a 40-year career. But that’s because quality is paramount to a man who will never accept anything but the highest standards.

The Life and Times of Eddie Gage track listing:

01)Hey Ladi Dadi, 02) Free Your Mind, 03) Follow the Road, 04) Just a Man, 05) You’re my Woman, 06) Dyin’ from a Broken Heart, 07) King of Deceit, 08) Crawl, 09) The Bitch in Black, 10) Hollywood Swingin’, 11) On the Way to the Psycho Ward, 12)Your Ass is Mine, 13) Spaceman, 14) The Blvd to Nowhere, 15) Let me in-Interlude, 16) Only One Love, 17) Burn, 18) When All is Said and Done 19) Hell and Back, 20) For Me, 21) Go On, 22) God Knows Your Name, 23) Say a Little Prayer.