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…