Year : 1991 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 112 mb
Bio:
Aldo Nova (born Aldo Caporuscio on November 13, 1956 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer. Nova initially gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1982 which climbed to Billboard's number 8 position, and its accompanying single, "Fantasy," which climbed to number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.Signing with Portrait Records, Nova released a self-produced album Aldo Nova in 1982 that had two singles: "Fantasy" and "Foolin' Yourself". His second album Subject...Aldo Nova from 1983 had two singles: "Monkey on Your Back" and "Always Be Mine". His third album Twitch from 1985 had two singles: "Rumours Of You" and "Tonite (Lift Me Up)". Nova was displeased with the album and the record company's insistence on making a more commercial album. After supporting the Twitch album Nova asked to be released from his contract, which the record company would not do. Nova decided to move to Montreal and work on jingles, waiting for his contract to expire in 1991. Stating he would not work on an album he didn't have full creative control over. In 1990, Aldo Nova wrote the main guitar riff that would be used in the Jon Bon Jovi song "Blaze Of Glory". In 1991, to return the favour, Bon Jovi worked with Nova on his Jambco Records (Jon Bon Jovi's label) release Blood On The Bricks. It had three singles: "Blood On The Bricks", "Medicine Man", and "Someday". In addition, he produced some early Celine Dion albums. He co-wrote the hit song, "A New Day Has Come" for Dion, and has been featured playing guitar, synthesizer, and percussion on her records. He also wrote her songs "Your Light" and "I Can't Fight The Feelin'", "You and I Were Meant To Fly" (which was also used as Hillary Clinton's Campaign song, and for the Air Canada theme song). He co-wrote the Blue Öyster Cult song "Take Me Away".In 1996 he received a Grammy Award as producer for Celine Dion's "Falling Into You" for Album of the Year. In 1997 he released the much acclaimed, mostly instrumental album, Nova's Dream, which featured a different side of his talents as a musician writer. The album is considered by his fans as one of his best alongside his eponymous debut and Subject. He co-wrote the Latin Grammy nominated song "Aqui" for the Chilean rock group La Ley on the album Uno. He also co-wrote and co-produced 4 other tracks on that album, which later that year won a Grammy for best Latin/Alternative/Rock Album.Among the majority of his solo efforts, Nova is best known for his first solo album effort, featuring keyboard work by Dennis Chartrand and Diego Insalaco. As a songwriter, Nova's recent hits include Clay Aiken's "This Is The Night" (co-written with Chris Braide and Gary Burr), which in the US was a number one hit and the best selling single of 2003. He was also the only writer to have written or co-written 5 songs on Celine Dion's Taking Chances album. Presently, Aldo chooses only to write his own music and refuses to collaborate with any other artists.
Album:
The very hard to find ALDO NOVA album “Blood On The Bricks +1” in its Japanese edition.Blood on the Bricks is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Aldo Nova, for which he signed to Jon Bon Jovi's Jambco Records.It was his first album in 6 years.The album featured fewer outside writers than his previous record, Twitch. The songs were mostly written by Nova and Jon Bon Jovi, with help from Jim Vallance and Rick Hughes of Canadian metal band Sword.Bret Adams of allmusic called the album "generally overproduced and noisy", saying that "most of the choruses are shout-along affairs." This is the fourth studio album by Canadian Aldo Nova, for which he signed to Jon Bon Jovi’s Jambco Records and co-write most the songs and helped with production. There’s also songwriting contribution from Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams).“Blood On The Bricks” (1991) was Nova’s first album in 6 years after the poppy AOR LP ‘Twich’, somekind of a comeback to his melodic hard rock roots.A kickin’ rockin’ record, and the Japan bonus track ‘Dance Of The Dead’ is a great addition.“Blood On The Bricks” sounds very 1991: big production, multi-track layers, huge backing vocals, catchy choruses and Nova’s guitar playing all over it. Indeed, Aldo proves on several tracks that he is a burnin’ axeman, and he even takes a brief keyboard solo on “Bright Lights”.Song highlights include the burning title track, the racing “Bright Lights”, and the nod to Aldo’s ’80s moments like “Touch Of Madness”, “Young Love” or the catchy “Medicine Man”. There’s a strong ballad too, “Hey Ronnie (Veronica’s Song)”, quite Bon Jovi-esque in nature.Two more Bon Jovi connections to mention: the great Kenny Aronoff, whom Jon likes to use on his solo projects such as Blaze Of Glory, plays drums. Phil X (current BJ guitarist) is pictured in the CD booklet as he was in Aldo’s touring band, but he does not play on the album.
Line Up:
Aldo Nova: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, organ, keyboards, programming
Steve Segal: steel and slide guitar
Greg Mathieson: Hammond organ
Daniel Barbe: piano
Randy Jackson: bass guitar
Kenny Aronoff: drums
Aldo Mazza: percussion
Jon Bon Jovi, Alan Jordan, Kip Lennon, Rick Virag: backing vocals
The No Sweat Horns: horn section
Production
Arranged and produced by Aldo Nova & Jon Bon Jovi
Engineer: Rob Jacobs
Assistant engineers: Nick DiDia, Steve Gallagher, Aldo Nova, Simon Pressey, Anthony Roberts
Mixing: Nick DiDia, Rob Jacobs, Paul Lani
Mastering: Bob Ludwig
Tracklist:
01. Blood on the Bricks
02. Medicine Man
03. Bang Bang
04. Someday
05. Young Love
06. Modern World
07. This Ain't Love
08. Hey Ronnie (Veronica's Song)
09. Touch of Madness
10. Bright Lights
11. Dance Of The Dead (Japan Bonus Track)
+ Video "Someday" (Official Video)
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