“There is never enough music”
Nosound’s Giancarlo Erra released his debut solo album, Ends, in 2019 and for the follow-up he had “a very general idea to do something that was different” from its neo-classical chamber feel. But after it was released he found out that his father, from whom he’d been largely estranged since the age of 14, was terminally ill with cancer and so he began flying back and forth to visit him in Italy. It was while they were re-establishing their relationship, Erra started the music that makes up Departure Tapes.