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Nova

Mainstream Rock·Dhaka·formed 1986·band
Psychedelic RockProgressive RockHard RockSoft Rock

Position in the network

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Documented events
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Observed connections
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Connections, all layers
3
Community size

Sits in a 3-act community whose dominant strand is Mainstream Rock, alongside Azam Khan & Uchcharon, Feedback.

Members

  • Ahmed Fazal — Founder (1986–present)
  • Noor — Band member (unspecified–present)
  • Sumon — Band member (unspecified–present)
  • Souren — Band member (unspecified–present)
  • Murad — Band member (unspecified–present)

Discography

  • Ahoban · year unrecorded · studio
    Ahoban
  • Shokti · year unrecorded · studio
  • Ghreena · year unrecorded · studio
  • Khoma · year unrecorded · studio
  • Shesh Dekha · year unrecorded · studio
  • Ora egaro jon · year unrecorded · studio
  • Betha · year unrecorded · studio

Documented influences

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  • Pink Floyd / Queen / Deep Purple / The Doorshigh

    Nova is directly documented as influenced by Pink Floyd, Queen, Deep Purple and The Doors, alongside domestic figures Azam Khan and Feedback — one of the more explicit combined domestic-and-Western influence citations in the corpus.

    Source: Band Music of Bangladesh: Nova profile

  • Azam Khan / Feedbackhigh

    Nova cites Azam Khan and Feedback directly alongside its Western influences, indicating the band's psychedelic/progressive sound was built on both foreign and domestic founding-generation reference points simultaneously.

    Source: Band Music of Bangladesh: Nova profile

Local adaptation

Formed in 1986 by Ahmed Fazal, Nova combined explicit Pink Floyd/Deep Purple/Queen/The Doors-style psychedelic and progressive hard rock with direct acknowledgment of domestic founding figures Azam Khan and Feedback as influences — an unusually well-documented dual (foreign + domestic) lineage that positions Nova as a bridge between the 1970s founding generation and the more internationally-styled progressive rock explored later by Artcell and Shironamhin.

Sound evolution

Founding period (1986): formed by Ahmed Fazal. Breakthrough period: debut album Ahoban's title track became widely popular. Extended catalogue: seven albums total (Ahoban, Shokti, Ghreena, Khoma, Shesh Dekha, Ora egaro jon, Betha), sustaining a multi-decade psychedelic/progressive/hard-rock career; specific release years for individual albums beyond the debut are not yet documented in available sources.

Based on documented description and discographic sequence. No audio-feature analysis was possible in this project, so nothing here rests on measured signal.

Concert culture

Specific concert/festival data not yet documented in available sources — flagged for further research.

Listener community

A key transitional act bridging the 1970s founding generation (Azam Khan, Feedback) and the later progressive/psychedelic rock scene (Artcell, Shironamhin, Shonar Bangla Circus), appealing to listeners drawn to the specific Pink Floyd/Deep Purple lineage of progressive hard rock.

Inferred from co-billing and from what artists and journalists said — this project has no audience-side data.

Documented events

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Sources

Record last updated 2026-08-06 · source record