Broken Towers At Midnight and other such November conquests.

Hi Novistas. Yep you are a Novista. If you have seen us play, read our blog, listened to our music, looked at our photos, become our friend on Facebook, whatever the connection is, if we have connected in some way then YOU are a Novista. Connecting in this universe happens on so many levels. Too many to mention but I just told you of a few. Music is such a beautiful way to connect and we as a band are so very grateful of our connection. We are very open to that growing as well. This past thursday night we played the Viper Room and our Costa Nova family connection opened further. We had some very special friends on stage with us to compliment our songs. Adam Gertler who you all might know from his show "Will Work For Food" on the food network or maybe his amazing cooking skills is also our part time harmonica player. He has guested with us many a times and it is always so great when he does.

Our second wonderful new edition to our family is Drea Lewark. She joined us on stage for two songs (Closing Time and Yearn To Burn) to add her magical angelic vocals to our sound. The vocal and stage chemistry between her and Kevin was awesome. It felt like angels tore open the roof of the Viper Room and the heavens put a spotlight on those two that night. I'm so grateful for their talents and doing such a beautiful job.

I also appreciate all the hard work Alex and Gilday have been doing in our rhythym section. Gilday had to get 5 stitches on his middle finger the other day and was such a trooper to play through it all. We all know how much Gilday likes to give the middle finger and all but its more important for his playing of course. We all have so much love for this band and its a strong connection we all can't deny. Which brings me to the Broken Towers At Midnight.

November is our month to hide away for a bit to get all these new songs we have off the runway and into the air. We might still be doing a show ,we always remain open but next time you see us you might hear a lot of new sounds that you have never connected with. We hope you do cause we sure do.

In any case its a blessing to connect with any and all of you in any way we do. Hope everyone had a beautiful weekend like we did and well wishes to my Costa Nova family who are going to connect with U2 tonight at the Rose Bowl!! I am going to connect with music and the Yankees in the Bronx!!

Ciao Novistas.

Andy Novista

Sometimes we try too hard to be instead of just being

Well I am sure this is true of myself sometimes. I get caught up in where I want to be or what I want to be doing instead of just enjoying where I am at. I am learning tho. You learn from your mistakes and you grow and its a beautiful thing.

The other night I watched a documentary called "Woodstock-Now and Then". I get really inspired by the purity of the music from that time. They put so much emotion and passion into every note. They just let it pour out of them. They had something to say that ,at the time and even now people could relate to. Its honest and true. Comes from the heart. So that brings me to right now. Present time. Sure 1969 was a time of change with so much going on in good and bad ways. Very magical time in music for sure. Like we don't live in a magical time? This is OUR time so it has to be magical. In our time we elected the first black president ever. EVER!! Think about it.......Malcolm X was assasinated. Martin Luther King Jr was assasinated. Can you imagine the chaos if that happened with President Obama? I really hope it does not happen. I don't need President Obama to get assasinated to inspire me to write songs.

Okay so what has happened to music? Wheres the emotion? The passion? The amazing musicianship?? Is it about a party now with Paris Hilton? What you're wearing? Who you're with? Are you indie enough? Emo enough? How bout can you play your instrument? Can you write a song that will make people feel? Do what you want, I respect that but for me.........I want to write songs that make you feel. Make you think. Stop you in your tracks. I wanna tear open your chest and make you feel every ounce of emotion I was feeling when I wrote it. The pain of lost love and heartbreak, the loss of my family and friends that have died, I want you to feel it tearing you up inside and cry for my pain because you can feel it in our songs. I want you to feel like a phoenix rising up from the ashes and feel uplifted by our songs. I want you to smile so big the world feels it when you hear that song of ours that gives you good feelings. I want you to close your eyes and drift up into the clouds and the heavens when you can't resist busting a move on the dance floor cause that groove we're playing is just too good to not dance to. I want you to feel all we're feeling from our hearts straight into yours. Like an arrow exploding with all kinds of emotion. This is OUR time in history. Lets make it something by just being. Being here at this moment right now and enjoy it to the fullest. I know its not easy and it might sting a little sometimes but growth is important. Its a part of life. A good part.

I hope everyone has a beautiful sunday and look forward to seeing ALL of you tomorrow night at El Cid in Silverlake for our show with The Naked and Fat City Reprise. Come about 9pm so you can share a magical moment in time with us.

Ciao.

Andy/Novista

Sick but San Francisco bound.

On the way to the bay to play. Have an L.A. cold so I'm laying down in the back of our home away from home......Vanny. That's right we have a name for our van. The van is family. Takes care of us. Dave Chappelles Block Party on the DVD player aka Kevins laptop. Be ready SF to get your groove on to our Costa Nova sounds time for you to get up stand and get down to our sound!! Hopefully you don't catch my cold in the process. This has been a Costa Nova update from the road. Be well!
Andy/Novista



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Going for broke.

When you have big dreams and high aspirations you have to let go of everything and go for broke. Don't worry about losing it all when tomorrow you could be the richest person in the world. And I don't mean money. Thats a only a part of it. If you think only money can make your dreams come true then you've already lost the battle. Its everything that makes it happen. From the shows, to the recordings, all the online promoting, the networking, the playing your guitar till late in the night, to the several nights a week rehearsals, the song writing, the listening to music for inspiration and learning, the lessons, the caring, the heart, the love of, the drive, the appreciation, the gratitude, the desire, the friendships, the bond, that never say die attitude, the hope, the faith, the belief, and of course the blood, sweat and tears..........if you want something bad enough then go after it. Don't give up. Dreams do come true.

This has been sunday thoughts. Hope you enjoyed them.

Andy/Novista

New songs for you to dance along........

From the ashes rising up like a Phoenix..........worked on our new (well its a song waiting on the launchpad for over a year now but we didn't have the perfect drummer to start the countdown and now getting closer to liftoff!) song called Phoenix. Came out of a jam we did and Gilday put together a masterpiece that we have contributed to for quite some time now. We've actually road tested it a couple times at shows but it was never the full version of what it is now. Today was an exciting and inspiring rehearsal. Kevin our singer is out of town for........oh wait yep you guessed it. Another wedding! I think this is like the millionth time he has gone to something wedding related since I first met him in the spring of 2005. A side note to his friends.........congrats. Kevin is just too popular. Singers.......Psssshhhhhhhhhhhttttttttt. Nuff said. So back to us. Yes yes so today was awesome. Alex killed it on And The Colors Ran so it looks like that could well possibly be in the set again! Great job Alex. So yeah we did some killer work on Phoenix. Can't wait for Gilday to get in his lab downstairs and post today's songs so I can get lost in Andyland listening to them. Oh I guess that might mean that we could play And The Colors Ran at El Cid on Monday October 12th as well. Hmmmmmmmm. That would be dope. Okay off to see other people play music for a while. I got cabin fever......need to get outside....be social......must try to talk to strangers.........psssshhhhhhhhttttt.

Much love.

Andy/Novista