Anonymous asked: First I want to say, you guys are amazing.....true music....my question is, how did you all meet? Have you known each other before the band? And did you guys have an idea collectively for the sound you were going for when you started up the band?

We went to high school in the same area, and knew each other through our various high school bands playing together. We wanted to do something weird and technical at first, as a side project of our other bands. But improvisation proved to be a big part of the fun, and the songs got longer and more atmospheric. That’s how Europa and Départe were born, in the Fall of 2003.