Van Garderen played in the band Genetic Factor (together with Richard Zijlstra and Jan Snijders) and met Lidia Fiala, who already wrote poems and lyrics since she was 15 years old.

In the meantime van Garderen and Fiala became a couple and within two years they composed about 60 songs,[2] from which almost half of them were released on several records until 2013.

[3] Much to her surprise Fiala found that people were interested in her music, that the "Radio Nome" LP was sold for insane prices,[7] and that even a whole CD of Nine Circles was released without her knowledge.

Since van Garderen lived a different life where music had no place, he couldn't join Fiala in the band, but he supported her by sending her most of the old recordings to be officially released on vinyl.

Through Facebook and MySpace Lidia Fiala met Per-Anders Kurenbach (Psyche, Shock Therapy, The Eternal Afflict)[10] and both recognized that they were on the same wavelength.