Mario Batkovic

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…

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Why This Artist

Mario Batkovic has 45K listeners but only 1K platform followers (ratio 33:1) — organic discovery is doing all the work. Hand-picked by NTS Radio DJs across 2 episodes. Active in experimental.

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