1 	Vimana 	
2 	Night Games 	
3 	Poesia (To A Brother Gone) 	
4 	Thru The Silence 	
5 	Driftwood 	
6 	Princess And The Frog

Bass Guitar – Percy Jones
Drums – Narada Michael Walden
Electric Piano, Piano, Synthesizer [Mini Moog], Clavinet, Keyboards – Renato Rosset
Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar [6 & 12 String], Marimba, Lead Vocals – Corrado Rustici
Percussion – Phil Collins
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Elio D'Anna 

I have to admit that Vimana is one of my secret favorites from back in the day. There was a time when I was trying to collect anything and everything that fretless bass virtuoso Percy Jones touched. Thus, I stumbled upon this one. Boy! was I sucked in by the entirety of this excellent album. Corrado Rustici's guitar work astounds me to this day (and to think that he would go on to production Hall of Fame with his work with Whitney Houston and others!) Narada Michael Walden is awesome and I, for one, love the "cheesy" Sri Chimnoy-inspired music, titles, and lyrics of he, (Devadip) Carlos Santana, and (Mahavishnu) John McLaughlin. Each song presents atmospheric sections of heavily treated guitars and keyboards which then invariably build into fiery soli from either sax man Elio d'Anna or axe man Rustici. The only straightforward song is the finale, "Princess and the Frog" which is quite catchy. "Driftwood" and "Vimana" are among my all-time favorite songs from the 70s. Not a masterpiece but definitely one that I'd recommend to any prog lover! ---BrufordFreak, progarchives.com

Phil Collins to jeden z moich ulubionych muzyków. Tytan pracy i niezwykle miły i pełen poczucia humoru człowiek. Właśnie kilka dni temu miałem ogromną ochotę posłuchać płyty na której zagrał Phil. Jest z czego wybierać gdyż Collins brał udział w nagraniu ponad 120 albumów. Jednocześnie nie chciałem aby było to jakieś skomplikowane dzieło. Ot, spędzić miło kilkadziesiąt minut uciekając myślami od dnia codziennego. Myślałem, myślałem i wymyśliłem. Padło na zespół Nova i płytę Vimana, na której to Phil gra na instrumentach perkusyjnych. Ten włoski zespół powstał w 1975 roku z inicjatywy byłych członków zespołów Osanna i Carvello. Byli to Elio D’Anna (saksofony, flet) oraz Danilo Rustici (gitara). Do zespołu dołączyli brat Danilo, Corrado (gitara, śpiew), Luciano Milanese (bas) oraz Dede Lo Previte (perkusja). Po nagraniu pierwszego albumu z zespołem pożegnała się część jego członków. Wtedy do Elio i Corrado dołączył klawiszowiec Renato Rosset. Panowie do nagrania płyty Vimana zaprosili kilku gości. Oprócz Phila Collinsa, na perkusji zagrał Narada Michael Walden znany między innymi z Mahavishnu Orchestra, na basie Percy Jones (Brand X), natomiast na kongach zagrał Zakir Hussain. ---SzyMon, szymonmuzyk.blogspot.com

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1 	Taylor Made Part1, Part2 	5:12
2 	Something Inside Keeps You Down Part1, Part2 	6:26
3 	Nova Part1, Part2 	7:04
4 	Used To Be Easy Part1, Part2 	5:07
5 	Toy Part1, Part2 	4:24
6 	Stroll On Part1, Part2 	10:08

Corrado Rustici — lead guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
Danilo Rustici — guitar
Luciano Milanese — bass, vocals
Franco Loprevite — drums
Elio D’Anna — alto saxophone (2, 3, 5), soprano saxophone (1, 3, 4), tenor saxophone (5, 6), flute (2)
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Maurice Pert — percussion

First album by an Osana-Cervello offshoot and a much more worthy affair than the horrible Uno experience, even if only the two Osana members will stay beyond this first album. And unlike what you'd expect, Nova developed a wild jazz-rock in this opus. Formed in London, under Pete Townsend (Who?) and recorded in his private studios (Eel Pie), Nova presented as a quintet (standard prog quartet plus Elio D'Ana on sax and flute) and gave us plenty of excellent mid-70's fusion in their debut, sung in English (quite well) with lyrics provided by an outside Sedgwick. With an average artwork evoking a slow motion blink (with a changing iris color in the third photo), the album is probably what comes best from Italy in this JR/F style, along with Perigeo and some Area.

Six tracks all divided into two parts all giving high-energy and enthralling jazz-rock, they can be associated with the future Brand X (many members will guest in the following three albums), but also with the second stable Nucleus era (the Sutton years) and even a bit of the first Colosseum (partly due to the vocals). Obviously well coached by the production team, the four sung tracks are in very good English (all things considered), but really, this is a minor aspect as all five musos are dishing out impressive 200 MPH fusion with impressive technical abilities. But I would not actually make you believe they reach Mahavishnu or RTF's technical and virtuosic level, but they match at least the first in feeling.

Easily their better albums (at least in proghead terms) of their four, the odd thing is that with further albums as Brand X and other all-star guests will appear on themù, they will become rockier with each new album. Excellent album, almost essential, but definitely earning its fourth star. ---Sean Trane, progarchives.com

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