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Mario Batkovic

Mario Batkovic has been played on NTS in shows including Tom Furse, featured first on 10 December 2017. Songs played include Semper, Gravis and Quatere.

Mario Batkovic is a Swiss virtuoso solo accordion player born in Bosnia. His playing can be challenging and experimental, yet it maintains a masterfully beautiful quality. He scratches every nuance out of the instrument, integrating scratches and clicks into the arrangements and making a feature of the kind of tonal scars and birthmarks which are usually eradicated from recordings and live performances.

At times the playing sounds like low end distorted feedback, at other times like an obscure analogue synthesiser. But…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Semper
Mario Batkovic
Invada2017
Semper
Mario BatkovicInvada2017
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Gravis
Mario Batkovic
Invada2017
Gravis
Mario BatkovicInvada2017
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Quatere
Mario Batkovic
Invada2017
Quatere
Mario BatkovicInvada2017
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Gravis
Mario Batkovic
Invada2017
Gravis
Mario BatkovicInvada2017
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Surrogatum
Mario Batkovic
Invada2021
Surrogatum
Mario BatkovicInvada2021
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Chorea Duplex
Mario Batkovic feat. James Holden
Invada2021
Chorea Duplex
Mario Batkovic feat. James HoldenInvada2021
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