The origins of Aelios Nova
Aelios Nova is a prog rock solo project founded by Milano Sebastian. During his musical career of over 20 years, he has written many songs, both for solo-ventures as for multiple bands. Still, many more songs stayed unfinished, not quite fitting his projects at the time.
It took him an injury and a lengthy recovery period to create a cohesive collection of songs. At the start, all he had were instrumental sketches of all kinds of different genres, qualities and lengths. By amalgamating these sketches, it became clearer and clearer which story each song was telling.
The debut album covers Milano's path from a dark place in his life (with matching views of the world around him) to his current brighter, more balanced and nuanced take on the world.
Before recording the album, Milano had extensive experience playing different instruments, but little to no experience recording, mixing, mastering and singing. With the council of his bandmate Robin as co-producer and the help of a few very talented guest musicians, the album started to take shape.
The artwork of Eternal Blue Skies
For the artwork, Milano found his friend and bandmate Dave willing to express his vision on the themes the album means to convey: the album art on the outside of the upcoming vinyl release depicts a rather depressing, but intricately drawn cityscape in the grips of hyper-capitalism, reflecting the lyrics on the A-side of the album (tracks 1-3). The artwork on the inside reveals the same cityscape after some radical, systemic changes. These are reflected in the lyrics of the songs on the B-side of the album (tracks 4-7).
The artists that inspired us
The music of Aelios Nova has been inspired by many great artists of different genres. The music of each artist listed below has had a significant impact on us. Click the links below to take a listen and let yourself be inspired as well! All together, Aelios Nova is proud to present new music, which has been written, recorded and mastered entirely without help or influence from AI/LLM's. The artwork has been lovingly hand-drawn, and the website was created using relatively old-fashioned methods, such as Google search and forum threads. We are proud to bring you art made by humans, for humans!
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