varvara | Danilo Battocchio

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:

Varvara 2016

dano — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:16:39 +0000

In a few days summer will officially be over. This year I spent it mainly working in studio, but took a break from recording to work at Varvara 2016, which happened in the end of August. It’s been really exciting to me, since I got to live-mix one of the most extreme bands I’ve ever seen live, Ramleh, in the amazingly beautiful location of San Pietro In Vincoli desecrated cemetery in Turin, Italy.
This is more or less what happened.

Oren Ambarchi live @ Varvara Festival 2016 Preview #2

dano — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:58:26 +0000

Oren Ambarchi live @ Bunker, Torino // Varvara Festival 2016 Preview #2 on June 21st.
Video courtesy of Pay No Mind To Us, FOH by me.

Videos from Varvara Festival

dano — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:35:50 +0000

The guys at Televisione Pirata released today their complete footage of Varvara Festival 2015. Here you can find some excerpts of Larsen’s and Lay Llamas’ sets, which I live mixed. Enjoy!

Varvara Festival 2015

dano — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 23:23:50 +0000

This year’s Varvara Festival for what I’m concerned ended with these words posted by Cindytalk: “the sound (…) was immense – brilliant soundsystem with outstanding engineers. Big thanks to them too”

For me and Stefano Genta it’s been 6 days of work in a odd venue, doing sounds on two stages, operating an Avid Venue console (which was kinda new to me), but it’s definitely been a pleasure to work in for such inspiring people as Cindy, Larsen, Paolo Spaccamonti, Ancient Methods, Fukte, Cut Hands, Sleeparchive, Phurpa, Space Aliens From Outer Space and Gianni Giublena Rosacroce.

I’m looking forward to next year!