Makoto Holmberg

Makoto Holmberg is Andrea Picella, a young Italian producer, engineering student who has always been passionate about electronic music. The solo project Makoto Holmberg was born in 2015, after several years in which Andrea plays the bass in Alternative \ Post Rock bands. Initially, the project was intended to a live dimension, and Makoto Holmberg immediately begins to present a live visual / ambient live, performing in England and Germany. His music is an electronics influenced by artists such as burial, Arca, Apparat and other artists of the current one. By the end of 2015 Andrea decided to work on the first EP, released in 2016 for the Milanese label Syntheke Records. His title is "Slow Night", an ep 4 track plus two remixes, well received by the environment, and judged a good first debut by Rockit, Stordisco, Elita, Soundbounds and others. His latest live of 2016 is in Milan, at the Linecheck Music Festival, dividing the stage with LIM. After this last performance, Andrea decided to stop doing live and work on his second EP, looking for a more elegant and more expressive sound.

"La slow night di questo primo lavoro si muove emozionale e d’impatto in un elettronica d’autore splendidamente eseguita…”
“La musica di Makoto Holmberg  non necessita di una profonde catalogazione sui generi né di grosse chiacchiere su pattern o synth, è elettronica visiva…”
“Makoto Holmberg è il nome più promettente che ci sentiamo d’indicare tra quelli e sono tutti di assoluto valore che si sono affacciati fin qui nel 2016…”
ROCKIT (ITA)

“Raffinato, ben prodotto e contenente sprazzi di estro creativo piuttosto interessanti, Slow Night si appresta a diventare colonna sonora delle lente notti in bianco di chi ne scriverà…”
STORDISCO (ITA)

“This is an EP generous with its assets, and it bears all the hallmarks of a creator with an extraordinary grasp of music.
Makoto Holmberg’s sound is beautiful, rhythmic, yet unobtrusive. It fuels the imagination, and sets the mind at ease…”
TUNELOUD (USA)

“In questo Slow Night troviamo qualcosa in più, quel tocco personale che riesce a smarcare la produzione facendola fluttuare con una gravità tutta sua, un microcosmo pulsante che si fa breccia con lucida freddezza…”
FORMALDEIDE (ITA)