It all started with a fan direct messaging a band on Instagram, and then a flash of memory. One and a half years ago, Mumbai-based artiste manager Madhura Rumde had started an online conversation with Moses Koul, founder of multi-genre outfit Kraken from Delhi. While talking, Rumde — a cosplay enthusiast — had casually suggested that Koul include elements of the art form at one of his gigs. That was that. The conversation lay dormant from there on. Until, it all came rushing back to Koul one day about two months ago when he was sitting in his studio, after Kraken had just finished fixing the nitty-gritties for a three-city tour. "Why not implement Madhura's suggestion?" Koul thought to himself. And so he gave Rumde a call, who connected with the country's relatively niche cosplaying community, and thus was born Appearance Disappearance, the first series of concerts in the country that will marry cosplay and live music.

Moses Koul