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Ars Nova
12+ albums
Progressive rockjapanesesymphonic proginstrumental12
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There are multiple artists with this name, including: 1) Ars Nova was an American psychedelic/progressive rock band that performed and recorded from 1967 to 1969. 2) Ars Nova is a Japanese progressive rock band. 3) Ars Nova is a Polish early music instrumental ensemble founded in Warsaw in 1981. 4) Ars Nova is a power metal band from Barcelona, Spain. 5) Ars Nova was a 60s French instrumental ensemble. 6) Ars Nova was electronica/indie/experimental artist. 1) Ars Nova was an American psychedelic/progressive rock band that performed and recorded from 1967 to 1969. The original core of the group comprised two former students from Mannes College in New York City - Wyatt Day (guitar, keyboards, vocals), who wrote or co-wrote most of the band's songs, and Jon Pierson (trombone, vocals). They recorded two albums. The first was a 1968 self-titled album for the Elektra label, on which the personnel comprised Day, Pierson, Maury Baker (organ, percussion), Giovanni Papalia (lead guitar), Bill Folwell (trumpet, bass, vocals), and Jonathan Raskin (bass, guitar, vocals). The band was signed to Elektra by Paul A. Rothchild, who produced their self-titled album in Los Angeles, with additional songwriting by Greg Copeland and released in April 1968. However, the band split up after a performance supporting The Doors at the Fillmore East in mid-1968, about the same time as they were hyped with a profile in Life magazine. Day and Pierson then formed a new version of the band, with gui
