Léon grew up in Lille, the son of a printmaker and a train conductor. He spent most of his teenage years in a disused signal tower near the rail lines, where he wrote songs on a nylon-string guitar while freight trains rattled past. He studied photography at École des Arts Décoratifs, where his professors said he had “a gift for silence.” Léon started performing solo under the name Artois Noir.

Mara was raised in Montpellier and originally trained as a classical pianist. After discovering trip-hop and glitch music in her late teens, she left the conservatory, dismantled her grandmother’s old radios, and started building custom oscillators from thrift-store circuitry. She moved to Paris for sound-design school and became known for performing “invisible DJ sets” that featured long, whispered ambient pieces played from small speakers hidden inside art gallery installations. Mara is the architect of the band’s signature sound: warm, haunted, and half-analog.

Éloi is the quietest member of the group. Born in Besançon to a family of watchmakers, he grew up surrounded by precise, miniature mechanisms. That sense of measured timing shaped his musical style: minimalist, steady, never flashy. Before joining the band, he worked as a bike mechanic by day and played deep, hypnotic bass lines in late-night jam collectives along the Canal Saint-Martin.

Claire Nomade was born in Avignon and raised between train stations and temporary apartments. Her parents were stagehands who worked touring theater productions across France. Claire grew up among crates of lighting gels, scraps of painted canvas, and the mechanical hum of backstage machinery. That sense of constant movement shaped both her temperament and her art.

She originally studied modern sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, fascinated by raw materials, industrial surfaces, and the way objects carry echoes of the places they’ve been. During school, she secretly taught herself guitar on a battered instrument rescued from a sidewalk pile. Claire never learned conventionally. She thinks in shapes, textures, and negative space, not scales.

She became known in Paris’s underground scene for her immersive “sound sculptures”: looping feedback through metal sheets, feeding reversed samples into tiny amps, and creating ghostly drones from broken pedals. Claire brings a tactile, almost cinematic dimension to the band’s sound.

Jonas grew up in a fishing village near Saint-Malo. He began drumming on overturned buckets on the docks and later joined a Breton folk ensemble, but he always craved something darker and more experimental. After moving to Paris, he worked as a projectionist at an independent cinema, where he learned to sync improvised percussion to silent films. That atmospheric, rhythmic storytelling still shapes his drumming. He builds many of his own percussion instruments from driftwood and found metal.