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Mikele and the Mattress is an Antwerp based project formed in the end of 2013. It started as a collaboration between the extinguished band “Botsotto” with Mario and Michele. Not so long after Jimmy joined the band as the drummer. Soon adopting a different posture torwards music making, another name was adopted as to form a new band. The first EP, The Trains that Lead to Antwerp, was produced in collaboration with Honeysound (barcelos, PT) and consists in a set of 6 songs which sonorities vary between progressive, psychedelic tunes and post-rock. This EP was based on the works of portuguese writer Herberto Helder