The funny thing is that, due to the long quarantine, we managed to meet each other in person many months later, just in time to record our album “Perpetual Chaos”. Eventually, I got the job and now the band has a line-up with members from Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Greece. This happened while we were on lockdown due to Covid-19 so my audition happened through a video call.

While she was looking for a drummer, she came across one of my drum covers on YouTube and she sent me an email to audition. In April 2020 the singer/bassist and the drummer left the band and the only remaining member, guitarist Prika Amaral, started looking for new members. JM: I’ll have to check these artists out! It’s impossible to not notice you’re in a legendary woman-led Metal band, Nervosa! How did you girls meet?ĮN: Nervosa is an all-female metal band that was founded in Brazil with a currently multi-ethnic line-up. I would recommend Sofia Sarri, Mother of Millions, Murder That Sound, Oceandvst, Ayrenn, Villagers of Ioannina City, Above Us The Waves, and Manos J Kouris just to name a few. Even though Greece is a small country, it was a vast music scene. Who are some notable musicians coming out of Greece you’d recommend to us?ĮN: That’s a tough one. JM: A lot of notable artists and philosophers have come from Greece so it only makes sense that it is a hub of endless creative inspiration. If I wasn’t living in the most crowded, multi-cultural city of Greece, I definitely wouldn’t have developed this creative process and this view of art. From my drums to my octapad, to basically every surface that I can hit to create sounds. That’s why I love experimenting with anything that produces sound. And I want to translate this 24/7 “noise” into music. Even while I’m writing these words, I hear people outside my house hanging out at coffee shops, I hear car engines, people playing music. Everything has changed the way I view music and art in general.

The street art, the theatres, the small underground gigs with local hardcore and electro bands, the comic book conventions. Athens has this huge urban and industrial character that I completely love. I moved to Athens, which is the capital of Greece, at the age of 18 to study in a university, and saying that I had a cultural shock is an understatement. I grew up on an island so my upbringing was relatively quiet. JM: Wow, Greece!? That is so dope! How has Greece shaped your overall creative process?ĮN: I think what has changed my creative process the most is moving to Athens. I mostly play metal music but I love experimenting with pop, electronic, hip-hop, trap, and basically all music genres. JM: Before we dive into the creative force that you are, set the stage for those who don’t know you! Who are you? Where are you from? What is it you do?ĮN: My name is Eleni Nota and I’m a drummer based in Athens, Greece. In this segment, I talked to Nota about her all-female band Nervosa, the music scene in Greece, how the pandemic affected her creativity, and much more. Dabbling in genres such as metal, electronic, and hip-hop Nota is a renaissance woman of her craft. Eleni Nota is a drummer who has a burning passion for making the most out of her music.

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