Thursday, September 15, 2016

Nova - Wings of Love. 1977 Italy-England


Nova's 3rd album Wings of Love sees the band heading further out in commercial waters. It would be easy to slag off Wings of Love on that fact alone, except this is a wonderful serious fusion album, with a couple of well-written radio styled jazz pop tunes mixed within. In other words, Nova is still more Mahavishnu Orchestra than George Benson. And besides how many Italian-UK combos have a song about the TV show Gunsmoke? A diamond in the rough if there ever was one

Ownership: LP: 1977 Arista. White label promo. Recent garage sale find (2024).

The US pressing has a different cover.

This replaces the Japanese papersleeve edition that made up the above review.

9/15/16 (new review); 6/14/24

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