Nova - Inception (Demo)

Nova - Equinox (Demo)

I was inspired by Vomitron665 to do this. My version of "Contra Force Level 1 soundtrack", one of my favorite Nintendo games.

Gears:
Ibanez RG920, Focusrite Scarlett Solo, Line 6 Pocket POD, D'Addario Strings [9-46], D'Addario Picks [0.70mm]
Recording:
Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Positive Grid BIAS, Superior Drummer 2.0, Nexus 2

Nova - Contra Force Level 1 OST Rock Cover

Solo to "I love you too much"

Gears:
Ibanez RG920, Focusrite Scarlett Solo, Line 6 Pocket POD, D'Addario Strings [9-46], D'Addario Picks [0.70mm]
Recording:
Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Positive Grid BIAS, Superior Drummer 2.0, Nexus 2

Nova - I Love You Too Much || Nova Mix ||

I was inspired by Vomitron into Nintendo-core. My version of "Double Dragon 2 Level 2 soundtrack".

Gears:
Ibanez RG920, Focusrite Scarlett Solo, Line 6 Pocket POD, D'Addario Strings [9-46], D'Addario Picks [0.70mm]
Recording:
Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Positive Grid BIAS, Superior Drummer 2.0, Nexus 2

Nova - Double Dragon 2 Level 2 OST Nova Mix

One evening, I was waiting for the bus, and suddenly i see this little girl across the road, trying to reach for a parachute seed above her. But she couldn't get the jumps on time.

Gears:
Ibanez RG920, Focusrite Scarlett Solo, Line 6 Pocket POD, D'Addario Strings [9-46], D'Addario Picks [0.70mm]
Recording:
Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Positive Grid BIAS, Superior Drummer 2.0, Nexus 2

Nova - If Only She Knew When To Jump

I am just a puppet, strings attached from hands to toes. And my self-destruct button is in someone else's hands. Trying to find control and balance on stage.

P.S.: This is an old track and sadly I lost my proper stems in a system crash.

Gears:
Ibanez RG920, Focusrite Scarlett Solo, Line 6 Pocket POD, D'Addario Strings [9-46], D'Addario Picks [0.70mm]
Recording:
Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Positive Grid BIAS, Superior Drummer 2.0, Nexus 2

Nova - Puppet Show

It was that time of the year when you feel the force, the force that rocks your core and you want to cry, but you're empty. And it's okay to feel hollow sometimes.

Gears:
Ibanez RG920, Focusrite Scarlett Solo, Line 6 Pocket POD, D'Addario Strings [9-46], D'Addario Picks [0.70mm]
Recording:
Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Positive Grid BIAS, Superior Drummer 2.0, Nexus 2

Nova - Equinox

One of the most epic openings from one my favorite childhood cartoons, Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures

Gears:
Ibanez RG920, Boss GT-100, Focusrite Scarlett Solo, D'Addario Strings [9-46], D'Addario Picks [0.70mm]
Recording:
Logic Pro X, FL Studio, Positive Grid BIAS, Superior Drummer 2.0, Nexus 2

Nova - Jonny Quest || Nova Mix ||

My rendition to one of my favorite childhood games. A Nintendo classic from the 80s, with some really great musical motifs, heavy riffing phrases, odd-time meters and jazzy progressions.
As the younger brother, I usually had to play as Lance (player 2), some run-n-gun action wearing red leather pants.

Gears:
Ibanez RG920, Focusrite Audio
Recording:
FL Studio, Overloud TH3, MODO Bass, EZDrummer

Contra (novaGnomes version)

Hello, my name is Bijoy Rabha. This is my solo project called ‘nova’. I work on originals, rock covers, nintendo-core, etc. I am still developing my playing skills and my musical knowledge. I am influenced by every type of music, but I like to recreate music that i can relate to. I have a decent enough rig to record my ideas.

Story so far: Somewhere in 2003, I am singing along to music on TV. Until now, never have I ever touched a guitar before. But there was this one acoustic, hung on the wall and collecting dust, at one of my cousins' place. My family didn't have any kind of musical background and my inspiration was my own childhood arrogance to one day play live in front of a huge audience, which I saw on TV the other day. One evening I got this brilliant idea of borrowing my cousin's guitar. I brought it home and I played. I instantly grasped the concept, that the left hand is supposed to hold a particular note, and my right hand has to pluck that string. Initially, everything was dissonant, everything was out of tune and nothing seemed right. Later, I took some lessons, met many great musicians and also, YouTube came along. It all congregated together very gradually. And there were times when I made excuses to not practice, which I am never proud of, but I am only human. Once, I broke my right wrist in an accident. I also have a dead finger on my left hand, my hand got stuck in a door that one time I was careful. But fortunately for me, these injuries don’t come in the way of my playing even though they're visually there.

Whenever I am not practicing music, I am wasting my time playing video games. I have had 3 Famicom consoles and our home computer. Video gaming experience has sky-rocketed during the last decade. I still play video games in most of my free time. And one day, an epiphany struck me. I can play video game music on my guitar. This discovery kept inspiring me to grow my guitar skills. It was one of the foundations that defined the style of music I aspire to create today.

I currently own a RG920 by Ibanez Guitars. It's made in Indonesia and I received it on 10th July 2014. My guitar is tuned to dropped D tuning. I plug it into a digital rig, either the TH-U by Overloud or my GT-100 by BOSS. They both sound good to me, irrespective of me using them live or at my personal home studio. I work primarily on FL Studio. I have some basic knowledge and dexterity to play the drum kit, which helps me program drums.

I started 'nova' somewhere around the beginning of 2016 and it has been a great journey so far. My main influences to name a few are 'freak kitchen', 'I built the sky', 'vomitron665', etc. This project has also pushed me into the realm of music production and the likes. I make a lot of mistakes and I learn new things every time in the process. It is only going to get better ahead with increasing availability of better gear and better plugins, I hope. I never imagined I would be doing music professionally. And now that I am, I have turned more serious, yet always excited to explore more and wondering what I might learn and create in the future.

I Am Nova

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