stearica | Danilo Battocchio

20 years of Stearica

dano — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:42:57 +0000

Last saturday Stearica celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band in the venue I’m currently working in, Magazzino Sul Po, in our hometown Torino. It’s really been intense, they had Can’s Damo Suzuki, Girls Against Boys’ Scott McCloud and Fluxus’ Franz Goria as guests. I really enjoyed doing sounds for them and for such great guests! Here’s a short excerpt of their set, Girls Against Boys’ Bulletproof Cupid featuring Scott McCloud.

Summer/Fall 2017

dano — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:08:51 +0000

Sooo, it’s time for a brief summary of what happened in the last months.
Aside from my studio activity (which has gone great, expect some great stuff coming from Tons, Thirst Prayer and Last Minute To Jaffna) I did some live engineering aswell. Last August I flew with Stearica to England, at Arc’Tan’Gent Festival precisely. We played the main stage a couple hours after noon, and it’s been really great. Twenty years ago I remember them playing at our school’s party, and now they’re playing the same stage Converge played some hours later!

Back home I did FOH at Varvara Festival, like every year. It’s been such a pleasure working for a living legend as Justin Broadrick, who took part as JK Flesh.
Here’s some live videos:

JK Flesh

Brighter Death Now feat. Lina Baby Doll (aka Deutsch Nepal)

Omega Machine

Karman Vortex Street

Last October I’ve been touring with Zatokrev, from 16th to 24th. After a warm-up show doing FOH for The Leaving (solo project of Zatokrev’s Fredi) in Basel with my friends Father Murphy and the goddess Jarboe, we left for Eastern Europe. We had a great time through Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, met cool people and great bands. We shared the bill three times with Au Dessus and in Varna I had the pleasure to do FOH for them aswell.

Here’s a video from their show at Disorder Club in Svishtov:

Lots of news!

dano — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:42:34 +0000

Many things happened in the last few weeks and many are to come.

First of all, I just got back from a 2 weeks tour with my buddies in Stearica. 11 gigs in 14 days, hitting Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain, gloriously ending at AM Fest in Barcelona with Davide stagediving while playing with his sticks. Here you can find the video of Nur at AM Fest

While we were on tour, Marco Di Nocco released his drumcover video of Yelawolf’s Marijuana, which has been recorded, mixed and mastered by me. Here’s the video.

Last but not least, this week The Worst Horse finally released their debut EP, again recorded and mixed by me, and mastered by the mighty Lorenzo Stecconi.

Stearica @ Vasto Siren Fest, video excerpt

dano — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:44:14 +0000

Short excerpt of Stearica’s show at Vasto Siren Fest. Quite good for not having soundcheck, huh?

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ns64hb2hE51r9tw56.mp4

Vasto Siren Fest with Stearica

dano — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:52:59 +0000

I’m back from a trip to Vasto Siren Fest with Stearica last friday. It’s been a pretty cool job, finally working with them after almost 20 years (we met in high school!). Their stage was in front of an ancient gate, directly facing the sea. The only big disappointing things were we didn’t have soundcheck and the front of house was actually a side-of-house, so I had to run all the time to make sound adjustments while they were playing.
I’s been cool also because I got to work with two of the most talented drummers I know in a single week, being them Davide from Stearica (of course) and Andrea from Dogs For Breakfast.