Matt Connarton Unleashed: Nolan Cota of Aeons Encoded and Pointless Culture

And we have with us joining us on the couch. Nolan Coda is here?

Am I saying your last name correctly as a Coda? That's it?

Yep? Yes, from Ion's Encoded and uh and the other band Pointless Culture

Culture. Yes, yes, but wonderful to have you here. Uh,

thank you. I was saying to you off air that I said to Jenny

recently. You know, I've been playing this guy's music for like two years

on the show. We should probably have him one Yeah, thanks for having

men and uh yeah, I always get I always get a lot of positive

feedback on that song, Reconnection. That's so cool. It's it's it's kind

of epic and uh yeah, it's just great. It's one of those songs

you get stuck in my head, especially that ending. You know, it's

a very dramatic and that's quite heavy. Yeah, yeah, that's that was

my goal. Anyway, I like it a lot. And you're getting some

love in the chat room too. Uh. Marissa Coda, who I think

you said as your sisters my sister, Hello, yep, she says,

yay. Nolan, very nice. Uh. Riley King says hi, Nolan,

Hey, Reley, Well, let me ask you this first off,

So where did where did you come up with the name? What does the

name mean? So it used to be Ayons apart and uh, it was

kind of just like some kind of word play. I was just trying to

go for just what sounded cool, and over time I was like, well,

I kind of want to incorporate my name, so and coda. So

I was like, all right, let's kind of go off that and coded

was born. So it was kind of like a little subtle play there,

and I think it sounded a little more not original, but more to my

liking, I guess. But yeah, it was just kind of like me

just messing around with some words and seeing where they seeing where they landed.

Yeah, but it kind of stuck, like and people seem to like it

and behold Ayons was born? Yeah, and uh and that it's all you

right, you play everything? Wow? Wow? How do you? I

mean, it's it's unique. How how do you describe it to people who

haven't heard it? Because it's not like anything. I mean, I can

hear influences, but it's especially I think the vocals are part of what gives

it it's uniqueness. Your approach with the vocals is different. I can't think

of anybody who quite does it like that, But how do you describe it

to people who haven't heard it yet? It can be kind of broad.

So I have a lot of influence from like Pink Floyd Rush and then to

modern bands like Tool. You know, all the progressive rock slash metal bands

have been kind of my go to for you know, how I go about

writing my stuff. Yeah, so I kind of just not like draw ideas

from them, but kind of like take inspiration from what they from what they've

done, and I just kind of make it my own, you know,

just kind of like putting my own twist on some things. And a lot

of it boils down to experimentation. So you know, if you're into like

progressive rock and you like a lot of synthesizer stuff and like very spacey,

atmospheric type soundscapes and all that, you know, this this is the type

of stuff you'd be into. So you know, it's very niche, I

feel, but it's fun. It's a fun genre, and you know,

I try to keep it interesting in terms of like making one song kind of

heavier, but maybe one song a little more experimental and you know, more

keyboard heavy, So just you know, not to have an identity crisis,

but like, you know, keep it interesting. Yeah, as much as

I as much as I possibly can. So yeah, so yeah, I

would say like progressive rock mixed with some spacey sounds is probably the best way

to describe it. Yeah. Yeah. Now, so you play everything you

do all the vocals, do you are those real drums? You also play

drums or program I do play drums, but being in an apartment, that's

a little tough, so I program them myself. So I use plugins,

which are like software drums. Yeah, and I take, you know,

not like well, they're real samples of drums, but not my own.

Yeah, but they're included in the software. So I take, you know,

what sound I want from each drum, you know, and symbol and

not, and then I mapped them on like a meaty chart. And you

can also play it on a keyboard because it connects by MIDI through that too,

Yeah, but sometimes I'm not always on time, so certain sections I'll

do just keyboard and sink them, and then other times I'll map out each

individual drum, which takes a lot of time, but it can be It

can open up my creative you know, doors a little bit more because I

can get really fast or really complex and it would sound good still, but

like you know, gotta remember not to make it too like unrealistic, right,

I would say. Yeah, drums is like probably the one time consuming,

one of the time consuming instruments that I have to do with when it

comes to my music, just because of it. It's it's programmed kind of

very incrementally. Aaron Billado, who I don't know if you know, Aaron,

very very talented musician, he says in the chat room. I checked

it out before the show. Outstanding new fan here. Thank you very much.

Yeah, that's awesome, you know Aaron. I don't, but I'm

gonna check him out. Yeah, yeah, he does. It does very

sort of experimentals. That's really cool. Yeah yeah, absolutely, thank you.

With with the drums, so when you're mapping out the drums, when

you're doing all that, do you do you intentionally try to put in something

that makes it seem that makes it sound like it's not programmed. Yeah,

So the flexibility of I'll just say it, it's easy drummer two by tune

track. Okay, That's what I've been using for the last few years mapping

out drums, and they allow you to kind of humanize each drum. Yeah,

I've heard of this. Yeah. They have like, you know,

certain settings. You can set velocity, which is kind of like how hard

or how soft a drum sounds, so to make it realistic. That's a

very variable like setting that I use, and I try to use it sparingly

enough where it sounds like someone's actually drumming it. Yeah. So that alone

is also time consuming because I don't want it to sound like, you know,

super like processed right right, right, But you know, I'm not

gonna lie and say that they're real drums either. Yeah, but you know,

you want it to kind of sound authentic, and that's what I'm trying

to go for us, being as authentic as I can with what tools they

have at my disposal. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it's amazing

what you can do now with the technology. I had another gentleman who he's

got a band called Downhill Rollers but it's and it's more just a straightforward rock

thing, really really good. But he but it's all him. He does

it all himself, and he programs and drums, and I remember saying to

him, like those sound completely real, you know, like, like I

would never have guessed, So it's really impressive what you can do now.

They've they've improved their like interface and just overall quality over the years they've I

mean, I'm not out all that well versed in like the progression of all

that, but like you can tell that there's so much love put into these

programs. Yeah, where like you could pretty much replace your drummer if you

wanted to, right and go that route. So it's really cool seeing how

much you can do these days from just you know, a computer. Oh

yeah, and some and some like d I instruments. Yeah, yeah,

what what's your what's your first instrument? Obviously you play multiple instruments. What

did you start out on? Actually I started on piano Oka, but I

uh, you know that that was kind of like my gateway into music because

you know, my grandparents had a really old Casio keyboard from like the late

eighties that I would kind of mess around on and then that's kind of like

what got me into guitar later on, is you know, and that's like

my main instrument now aside from bass. Yeah. So like but keyboard has

been the best way for me to learn everything about music. That I know

today, or at least have me start out on music, and it's very

versatile and it was a lot of fun to learn on and then just kind

of, you know, went from there to drums, keyboard, like synthesizers,

keyboards and you know, guitar and all that and kind of expanded from

there. I've heard a lot of music teachers say that that everyone should at

least learn some basic keyboard skills that will help you and everything. Not advice.

I ever thought. I'm a bass player and I can play a little

bit of guitar. I never I never learned. I've never learned anything on

keyboard and I probably never will. But but but I have heard a lot

of music teachers say that that's really the best foundation you could ask for,

is if you start out on keyboard, or if you already play something else,

if you go back and just try to learn you know, you just

basic stuff scales and whatnot, and it'll actually really help you exactly, especially

the C major scale. That's how it's pretty much mapped around, and you

just kind of experiment from there or learned. You can kind of use that

as your foundation and then kind of like learning other scales from that sam major

scale and like learning all the other stuff from there. So yeah, it's

it's a great starting point. I remember those old casios. Was it a

was it a little one or was it? Because I swear it shrunk on

me because I started young, right, So like I swear it was like,

you know, like a full sized keyboard. Then the one day I

went over to play it, like I don't know, maybe four years old

or something like that, I swear it shrunk, yeah, because I don't

know, or five years old or something like that. But yeah, it's

it's a out like it's a it's a what is it a forty two key

or something like that board. It's it's it's fairly small keys. Yeah,

something you'd probably find on like a MIDI controller right right, you know,

or something like that. So like it was comfortable, yes, you know,

even when I was getting older and you know, my hands were getting

a little bit bigger and all that, it was still fun to play.

And I still have one, right, you know, not the same condition

as it was back then, but it's in my apartment right now, sitting

in the corner, so yeah, still there. I think I have one

in a in a storage in it there because even though I never really learned

to play it, I did have one, and I think it it's it's

but it's a little one if I'm remembering it correctly, and I think it

I think it took like I think it took D batteries. Yep, that's

what mine took, really, yes of them to be exactly. Yeah,

yeah, that's a power sucker. Exactly. Has your process changed over the

years with with the Ian's encoded a little bit? You know, I try

to do all the production myself, so it was kind of like me learning

how to do it all my own, which was very tedious to say the

least. But you know, if you listen to my very first like demo

track, Exordium, like that was just kind of me throwing some tracks together

see how things worked, yeah, and then kind of like showcasing the sound

I was going for in a way, so I kind of like keeping that

synthy stuff and then getting heavier. So, you know, I think overall,

like my process has kind of stayed the same in terms of how I

compose, but when it comes to the production of it, I've gotten a

lot more what's the word critical of it, because you know, my ears.

You know, when you do like music on your own, it takes

a lot out of you, especially you know in your ears. Yeah,

the ear fatigue is I think what they call it, and it's it's a

lot. But you know, I try to keep it streamlined, and the

easier it gets easier the more I do it, because like I kind of

find what works and what doesn't work. And that's the fun of the experimentation

that I that I get to, you know, go through and uh yeah,

I think I've improved just in terms of production, but like you know,

how I go about writing and putting it all together, it is kind

of stayed the same. Is a lot of because you mentioned there's a lot

of experimentation. Do do you have some songs where you've kind of where you

kind of write it all out and then you go to record it or do

you ever or is it mostly just kind of experimenting as you go. Uh

so, yeah, that's a good question. So a few songs I have

like actually written out completely. One of them actually, the whole EP were

reconnections on the Cosmic Archives. That whole EP was actually tabbed out on a

software called guitar Pro, and I kind of put all the structure together on

that. I programmed the drums through that, like but through like sheet music,

so it was even more tedious. Yeah yeah, but it helped me

like kind of established the basis of what I wanted to go for and I

was able to change there without having to worry about recording anything. And I

didn't know about like scratch at the time, where you can like record stuff

like kind of on like a piece of paper in your computer, ye type

of thing. And you know, just that's how I kind of did all

that because like when it comes to recording, you always picture it kind of

being like you gotta do this in one take. It's not the case for

me, like I've been able to like do it all kind of in sections.

You can do it comfortably and I can adjust things if I need to.

But the more experimental songs, like on my first album's inspect Element,

which was oh my god, it's almost two years old now, that's just

crazy. So Theoretical and Beyond the Mirror are two of the instrumental songs on

that that I kind of just you know, messed around with that just come

up with like a way to bridge into the next songs. Yeah, afterwards,

which were also mapped out, you know, in software and written out.

Yeah, just trying. It's more of those just like tiny musical ideas

that I kind of like what sounds I'm kind of like what sounds good,

and well, this work will not work and that's super fun for me.

Yeah, and they turn out really fun, Like it's really really fun to

listen to. Do you do you ever have an idea that you end up

you end up throwing away that you you maybe you were excited about, but

then you go to do it, you go to record it, and you're

like, ah, this isn't working. Oh hundreds really yeah, yeah,

I'm like the guy throwing out those little crumples of paper in the trash.

Been all the time. But you know, the cool thing about technology is

that you can erase things and rework them without having to, you know,

worry about throwing stuff away for real. Right, So if I don't end

up liking an idea, I can just kind of readjust and like fix it

and or add stuff to it what have you, And then it kind of

I kind of like to make things work, yeah, because you know,

I like to craft my ideas but not have them go to waste. So

there are some ideas and each of my songs that are probably actually not probably,

they are borrowed from previous ideas. So hidden Away Verse Riff is actually

a song that I wrote back in like twenty twelve that I didn't really have

any way to record, so I was like, this, first kind of

cool, let's put that in. So but there's still a fair share of

like different ideas that just would not work for the songs I already have out

or probably would not fit my sound at all. So but that's the life

of being a composer. I guess you have those ideas that go to waste,

and you have those ideas that stick and you want to reuse. Jay

fad in the chat room and he yes everybody this question. He says,

Uh, have you ever considered increasing the length of your beard? I want

to? Yeah, yeah, I'd like to. I try to keep it

somewhat neat, but you know it, I don't have the best luck with

my beard sometimes, so really doesn't get to it. It gets a little

scraggly, so I got a tame it sometimes, which reminds me I got

to do that fairly soon. But yes, I would like to grow it

a little more, say with my hair. That's my next produ jack really

Yeah. Now, so have you ever I'm assuming not, But have you

ever played any of this live in front of people or No? No,

I maybe one day I will, but you know, because it's all solo

stuff, a lot of it, you know, I'd have to like have

a band for hire and you know, and have the time to assemble all

that and actually practice them again. Yeah, but no, I've I've you

know, thought about potentially doing something like that sometime in the future, if

you know, it got to that point. But you know, I think

it'd be difficult to assemble right now because there's so many moving parts and there's

you probably need about six keyboard. It's probably I love to layer things.

Yeah, but it's on the table, just I don't know when it's very

up in the air. I mean, the other option would be to you

know, just just play in front of backing tracks and yeah, that that's

also a possibility too. That's something I've kind of toyed with here and there.

Yeah, it's just a matter of kind of getting it all together.

Yeah, I'm not opposed to it. Yeah, that'd be fun. But

yeah, either way, it would be a lot of work, no doubt.

Yeah. Uh Frasier Ramsey and the chat room says hey from Edinburgh,

Scotland. Well, hello, hello, very nice. Well let's do this.

Let's let's play another track I'd like to uh well actually I'll let you

pick though, what what what would you uh? What would you like us

to play? Uh? I don't know if my newest one, Fragmented release

back on Saint Patty's Day. Okay, cool, Yeah, that's a fun

This is the newest one. Very good. All right, let's let's give

this a listen and then we'll come back and chat some more. If you're

just joining us, we have Nolan Coda here and we're are we are featuring

and talking about his music from eons and Coded. This is his solo project.

And check this out. This is the newest one. This is Fragmented.

Do you sid and rather than around again, round the fire, that's

a body you burn, the friend said, un Lo the thingside another time,

let's be already shaking. I feel on the only one sody gets you

less and the mess I red cracking the code that's my comfort and starts the

field. Recently, go go investor, investor. Then they beat up my

red failing to catch my brother again for somewhere else. We can't ask me

as you can't deep in the water. I'm baking on the bed, nothing

to see, just me away, staying away, scared the voice shot in

my room, chilly out and you just hard cha pick up the pieces all

over a cover again. Sometimes I feel like a pullet the brood like chess.

The get that that be makes a harder and heart of the house.

Get me some time trying to feel the shark that my reason to stay speaking

and ships under a round again around the forest. Has the fund you had

a friend. She fights on the frankness of memories like what yoursel skates like

crystallize instantly show for so cannot as you say, burns into the water.

I wake besten, just bewas made your house scares you, strike you,

I will swear to of the pieces all over again. I love it that

is fragmented from eons and coded. And we have the man behind eons and

coded here on the couch with us in studio. Nolan Coda is here.

That's that's so good. We've got uh let's see Mike from Queen City Cabinetry

in the chat room says really good. Aaron Bilido says, Wow, this

is a great song too. Jay Fed says I'm digging this. Jenny says

loving this and uh, DNA coda a relation there, mother, that's your

mother? Yep, very nice. Yep, she says love fragmented top track

choice for me and Isaac Banks also said a great song. Yeah, that

is really good. And you know, we were kind of talking off air

while I was playing kind of a little bit of an eighties vibe there with

the keyboard riff, which is really catchy. Yeah. I wanted to like

replicate kind of a d X seven types sound like a Yamaha electric piano.

Yeah, and kind of like put some modern twist on that, add some

reverb to it and call it a day. Yeah. Yeah, give a

little different spin on that. Yeah. Melanie also has a non musical question

because she's watching online. What evil beings does Beard Man have on his shirt?

Oh? It's it's the scream uh y, yes, yes, I

got it. A hot topic, I think, Oh, yeah, I'm

getting ready for spooky season. Yes, Oh so is Melanie? Well,

I think for Melanie it's already here. So some people just you know,

Halloween is their giant giant. Yes, yes, already arrived for her.

Yeah, some people start uh Halloween really early. Nolan Coda from ianson Coded

and from Pointless Culture. Uh, Nolan too. We were talking off here

about your other band, Pointless Culture, and one of the guys in the

band is also in radio. You were saying, yeah, yeah, Harrison

Himan is our drummer and he's a very talented individual. I want to give

him a quick shout out. He's an awesome dude. Helps us a lot

with our booking and yeah, uh you know, getting stuff out there,

kind of managing our social media stuff as well. He does a lot for

the band, so I want to give him a little bit of love.

And he's on w j y y up and Conquered right, Yeah, one

off five j y y yep yeah station. I know. I used to

live in Conquered, so I know that's been really well, yeah, because

he been there a long time or yeah, we actually used to live together

up until this last month. Yeah. We're very close, very close friends,

cool, and so it's awesome that we get to do well, everything

we get to do together, you know, with the band and all that,

so yeah, super fun, excellent, excellent. Now with Pointless Culture,

you guys are you're currently recording right you're recording on an album. Yeah,

we're recording an EP and then an album hopefully fairly soon after that.

So we have like a four track we're working on right now, and yesterday

we just finished up two of those and then we gotta record one more and

then we're pretty much on part of release it probably the next month or two.

So that's really exciting. It's it's more of like an indie punk type

mix. Okay, so it's a lot different than what I write, but

it's like in my wheelhouse still and it's so much fun. Yeah, our

lead guy, who's also named Harrison, is a fantastic songwriter. A lot

of the songs are all of his, pretty much all of them actually,

and I want to give him some love too, and Ben in the band

fantastic musicians, very fun to work with. So yeah, we're we're on

part or release that pretty soon. It's gonna be just a little four track

and kind of like going over each of our style and you know, kind

of like what we are as a band, who we are as a band.

So we're looking forward to that. What do you do in that?

In that band? I'm the bass player. Okay, that's what I figured

because in the picture on Facebook, you're yep, he's got a bass.

Yeah, and there's two guys named Harrison in the band. There is,

yeah, very rare occurrence. Yeah yeah, I mean Harrison is not a

super unusual name, but it's not super common either, so yeah, that's

funny, like in between, right, yeah, and they both go by

Harrison, like neither of them's Harry or well, uh no, actually I

just number them in my phone, so they're kind of an order on how

I met them. So H one is who I named our drummer, Harrison

and who I used to live with, and H two is our frontman and

you know, kind of the lead and savior of the band as I call

them. But it's like a huge family in that band. We got a

whole like crew. It's it's a lot of fun. We just played in

Warner at the Summer Jam this past Saturday, a lot of fun. Played

to play a couple of new songs that we had, you know, in

the works, and they went super well. So you know, this is

this is really fun to have, like as a you know kind of like

I guess my main priority right now, just because like I haven't had like

a working original band before, and while guitar has always been like my main

instrument, I have found so much fun and enjoy playing bass. It's kind

of like opened up that passion right back up again that you know may have

like kind of dwindled over time because music is kind of like taxing at times.

Sure, but like just playing a new instrument primarily like that is a

huge like just breath or fresh air. Well, I was gonna say too,

it must be a relief in a way. I mean, obviously you

have a lot of passion for Jan's encoded, but at the same time,

not having to do everything yourself must be nice. Yes, yeah, huge

relief. But you know, we all get to you know, pull our

way. We get to put on our input that we you know, when

it comes to like writing O our songs and like how they want to go,

you know, our our direction, and you know, it's it's nice

to have that brotherhood with each other. We're like very tight knit, and

you know, we always come to like some kind of like solution or conclusion

to how we want to go about saying like recording the song or writing this

song, or what we play live, et cetera. So it's a fun

time and just couldn't ask for a better group of people. Now, the

the EP that you're recording, now, will that be the first thing that

you've released as a band. No. Last October, I think October six

we released some homebrew recordings called the Sampler, which was three of our songs

that we started, you know, our shows with the Line's Been Drawn left

Off in Little House. So those we recorded actually in our drummer, Harrison's

work, and we kind of just set everything up through a mixer and just

kind of like you know, just just got something out there and it turned

out it came out pretty good, I would say, you know, for

for being kind of done on our own and fairly quickly. Yeah. But

our first recorded like professional song like through Cedar House Sound in Sutton. Jerry

Pott incredible guy to work with, very very fun guy to talk to as

well. We recorded Severed Ties in a studio back in November, released it

in December, and that was like our first, like I guess, breakthrough

song and kind of bringing us out into like the professionalism side of things,

and we're working with him again for this EP, and it's just been an

overall fantastic experience. Okay, it gets better and better. Good goody has

the How long has Pointless Culture been around? Because I feel like I've heard

the name even before Jenny mentioned that she had booked you for the show,

I feel like I've heard of the band. So it's the four of us

have been a band with four members since about March, but we were a

three piece with I was with the other two Harrisons for about a year.

Oh okay, and then the other two Harrisons who went by h Squared or

Harrison Squared back then, they were like, you know, jamming out.

They've reconnected with each other, and you know, I was like, hey,

I want I want to play bass, you know, but they asked

me as well, and I was like, yeah, let's do it.

So we just kind of like formed it, you know, one by one

in a way, so as a full three and four piece band. Depending

on how you look at it, I guess like we really got our start

a year ago and Ben our second second guitarists back in February March time frame.

I did that. That's a cool name. Two pointless called sure,

what's what's the origin of that name? So the both Harrison's were trying to

come up with a name, and if I correct me, if I'm wrong,

guys, if you're listening, I think they were gonna go with divorce

Culture and then pointless something. But then they like kind of mended that,

mended them together. Some Pointless Culture was born. Yeah, I kind of

fuzzy details, yeah, but you know, they were kind of going the

same row I did and kind of like seeing, you know what sounded pretty

good. You know, we're generators are great when it comes to that,

and you got to try to find something that's not taken or right, you

know, is open to be used with. So I think it kind of

started the same way that my name did, but they kind of blended towards

together from other names, and so you know, Pointless Culture was born.

And I love the name too. It's fantastic. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Trying to find something that's not already taken that can be uh, that can

be one of the hardest things. I mean, it's a lot easier than

it used to be because now you know, you can google it, you

can look it up. But I remember a time. I've told this story

on the show before, but I had a friend I went to high school

with, and I remember running into him a couple of years after high school,

and he was a musician too, and he told me about this new

band he was in, this uh rock band, and I said, what's

the name? And he said Intuition And he said that to me, and

immediately I'm thinking, oh god, there's probably so many bands that have already

used that name. And then, swear to god, I ran into him

again a few months later and the same place, and I said, how's

the band, And he said, good, except we had to change our

name because we heard from another band already using that name. And I'm too

polite to say anything, but in my mind, I'm thinking, yeah,

of course, of course you had to change it. Intuition, like the

most obvious, you know what I mean, Like, of course, it's

probably a million different bands that have used that name, So yeah, that

can be. That can be a big part of the challenge is is finding

something where you're not going to run into a problem later exactly. Yeah,

the more words the better, and the less common the word the bet or

two, it's it's very competitive out there, not just with music but with

naming your music and all that. But you know, I'm glad we're able

to both find something both you know, the band and myself, something that

we could both use and call our own. Yeah, that's really really fortunate

to be able to say that we can do that. Now, did you

guys play out a lot with that project? Yeah? We played at the

Bang and Answer Stage last August this past August, and that was our probably

our biggest show yet. But we haven't played a ton. We've played maybe

six or so. We have one coming up in Acworth on the twenty third,

and our first one was at Tandy's Pub in downtown Conqueror and that was

the night before It was kind of like a little release party for Sabatias because

it was coming out that midnight, you know, of the of the next

day. Yea. So we were like, let's, you know, let's

do a cool little show there. And we got some help from a friend

of ours, Kurt Felder, who runs like, you know, kind of

like music journal journaling, like YouTube videos and very talented guy. Yeah,

really cool guy too, and he helped us get that gig. Okay,

So and then you know, we had kind of like a little drought in

between. We added Ben, we were kind of learning some new songs.

Then it wasn't until maybe this past you know, summer, where we started

to really get some more shows booked. But it can be tough to get

them booked now. Yeah, I mean summer is usually probably the busiest time,

oh yeah, for you guys as far as shows, right. I

mean, I know a lot of bands will you know, kind of use

winter to sort of record and then you know, and then you know,

spring, summer, early fall to play out. But it seems to be

the the easiest one. I mean, you know, I don't play anymore,

but when I was in bands, I was always to me, that

was always the best way to do it, because you know, in the

winter it's just miserable to Yeah, I've played shows before when I was lugging

equipment in the winter up upstairs outside and slipping almost dropping stuff and it's miserable.

Yeah. But yeah, we're kind of going that same route. You

know, we're just trying to take and maybe the winner maybe a few shows

here and there, but like kind of taking that time to really focus on

recording more stuff. Yeah, because we have so many things that we want

to add to you know, the music world out there, so you know,

it's it's kind of like the opportune time to do all that. Yeah,

we're really trying to book for next year. Yeah, excellent, Spring

summer excellent, excellent. Well why don't we play another? Why don't we

play another eons encoded song? I yeah, I definitely want to get one

more in before we run out of time. But I'll let I'll let you

choose one again. What suck. Let's go back to the first album,

inspect Element. Let's do let's do heading Away, Hidden Away. Yeah,

I think I've listened to that one. That's the one I wanted to go

for a deftnestyle style vocal. Oh okay, well I'm very okay, I

don't I don't think I did listen to this one. Then all right,

well I'm very curious now, all right, cool, So let's give this

a listen. This is this is hidden Away. The artist is eons encoded,

and that is eons encoded on the couch. That is Nolan Coda,

the and behind NS and coated. Let's check this out. This is called

hidden Away. Yer pick the three worm me more tree. You got those

dramatic endings. I love it. That is. Uh, that one's called

Hidden Away and that is Eons Encoded And Nolan Coda from Eons Encoded is here

with us. He is on the couch and we do have another family member.

I believe Belinda Brooks Coda is in the Facebook live chat. Hey Graham,

very nice, very nice. It's quil that they that they're supportive and

that uh you know, they come out to listen. I love it.

I love it. That is that is outstanding. Now what obviously, so

you're you're pretty busy, it sounds like with pointless culture. But do you

have more eons and coded music coming as well? Or I have a I

have a couple of songs that I'm kind of slowly chipping away at. Uh.

One of them is an older track I had back in like twenty fourteen

called Vanishing Point, and I don't know when that'll be done, but it's

it's got about a minute or so so far, just uh gotta you know,

just you know, get at it and when I can. Yeah,

it's so high. Yeah, with with how much I'm doing and how many

you know, different products, I'm a part of it. You know,

it's hard to find that time, uh to really sit down and focus on

that stuff. But it's it's gonna come. It's gonna come, and there's

yeah, I'm never gonna stop doing AONs. It's just I don't know when

you know I'm gonna be able to like pick it up again comfortably and stay

with it. And you know, burning out, burning yourself out's just you

know, not the move right right, So, but it's gonna come.

It's gonna come. My Facebook and Instagram, are you know the best way

to keep in you know, contact with me or see what I'm up to

for especially AONs because I have just made an account for that not long ago,

just to keep it separate from my own my own stuff. But all

those updates will be on there, uh you know when I get to it.

But I got a couple of things, yeah, I'm working on.

And for people looking for eons encoded online too, we should just clarify for

anyone who doesn't know EON's is spelled A E O N S. People might

be looking for it without the A and unable to find it. But I

wanted to go with the European spelling it look cooler. Yeah, yeah,

I don't know if I've ever seen it spelled the other way? Can you?

Is it sometimes spelled without the A? Yeah, I discovered the e

o NS is kind of the more western US way of spelling it, but

like with the added A is kind of European. It just looked cooler to

me. Oh yeah, yeah, no, it is cool. I think

it's pronounced the same. You can say AONs it's all, it all means

the same thing. Yeah, yeah, see, I have seen it spelled

without the A, but I just assumed it. Who people who are spelling

it without the A, we're spelling it wrong. But but but maybe that

is maybe that is acceptable. English is weird, Yeah yeah, or sometimes

things are wrong, but over time they become accepted because exactly spelled wrong or

spoken wrong so often. Yeah, I just thought it looked pretty cool.

Yeah, yeah, no, it does. It definitely does. It definitely

does. Well. I'm really glad you joined us today and we'll we'll actually

close out the show with one more track in a moment. But this has

been wonderful and thank you very much. Absolutely like well, you know,

like I said, we've been playing your music for long enough, might as

well, have you on. Yeah, very very humble and you know,

happy to be here. Yeah, thanks again, absolutely, thank you for

coming in and and I look forward to to getting Pointless Culture, to getting

you guys in here as well. Oh my god. Yeah, that'll be

We're we're super excited. That'll be cool. That'll be cool. If you

want to pick one more, Nolan, we'll we'll play one more to play

us out. Let's do Mobius. That's the one that somehow has the most

plays. And it's anything crazy. It's just kind of a fun little jam.

Oh interesting, which which one is that on? Is that on?

That's on inspect Elements? Kind of like my closer. Yeah, it's a

fun little tune. Okay, yeah, we'll go with that, all right.

Very cool. All right. So this is uh, this is Mobius

from the releases Inspect Element from Ions Encoded and Nolan, thank you again,

my friend, thank you very much for having me. Absolutely and here it

is. This is Mobius.