Barbora Tomášková, an extraordinarily inventive young author, will also debut at Pohoda. The former student at VŠMU (The Academy of Performing Arts, program: Composition) and VŠVU (The Academy of Fine Arts and Design, program: Sculpture) can be characterized by her unconventional approach to music-making and its live implementation. She combines live electronic music with objet trouvé as well as with her own DIY sound objects she designed and constructed during her studies at VŠVU in Bratislava. Barbora is the author of a made-to-order concert for NEXT Festival, she collaborates with the Czech Radio and composes scenic music and film scores. Last year, she became the Konvergencie competition prizewinner and her composition for solo piano was selected for the World New Music Days in China organized by ISCM (The International Society for Contemporary Music).   → read more

Following their premiere at Pohoda on the Ground, God and Eve are coming to Pohoda 2022 as well. The band is Eva Sajanová and Richard Grimm (Max Bazowski, Raptor Koch, Boh Vajec). They are both studying music composition and love contemporary classical music, jazz as well as artpop. Eva composes music, writes lyrics and makes recordings of initial song versions. Richard then focuses on arrangements and production. Together, they fine-tune them until they reach their final form. Their debut EP The Creation was released in February 2021 via Slnko Records label. According to Hudba.sk portal, they confirm their uniqueness with their second EP The Fastest Way to Deep Clean a House. During their live performances, the duo is accompanied by Marek Buranovský on guitar,  Jakub Kačic on bass and Tomáš Hríbik on drums. Currently, they are working on their debut album and, today, they are representing Slovakia’s music scene at Ment, a showcase festival taking place in Ljubljana. → read more

Timea quickly became very popular on the domestic scene at the end of 2020 with her debut EP “Confusion of Warmth”. Even before that, she appeared at the Pohoda in the Air festival in Trenčín, where she performed at Welcoming the Sun. Together with Norbert Daniš and Martina Repková, she was picked by our jury in a Facebook contest, and also the time confirms the obvious⸻that they chose very well. Patrik Marflák of Hudba.sk wrote in the title of the review of her EP: “A worldly voice and mature songs: Singer Timea is one of the top discoveries of 2020.” → read more

 At Pohoda 2022, you can also experience the drum-and-bass/pop project Meowlau x Val whose debut EP Nevermind released in February this year has put them on the map in the local scene. The project’s distinctive feature is represented by the collab of two female artists: Laura Jašková (Meowlau) who covers electronic production and Valentina Vlková (Val) who provides vocals. → read more

One of the novelties of Pohoda is the stage with zero emissions, “Žiť energiou” (Living with energy). Every day there will be three concerts, two debates, and one jam. We start announcing the artists of this stage with the Slovak-Hungarian musician Adela Mede, who is researching the relationship between voice, technology and field recordings. Her intimate ambient confessions with a spiritual aspect are accompanied by experimental electronics with a number of influences, from minimalism to folklore. → read more

The band Bez ladu a skladu stopped playing together shortly after the concert at the very first Pohoda. However, our festival later became their favourite “meeting point”, where they played on average every five years. At Pohoda 2015, they slightly intensified this modest periodicity. They performed at the Concerts for Ján and Martina, at the Concert for the Attentive, the anti-fascist event Slovenská krčma, and at last year’s Pohoda on the Ground, when the Stromoradie club picked them for the line-up. Their tour on the 35th anniversary was interrupted by the pandemic, but they for sure will appear at the 25th birthday of Pohoda, and Michal said about it: “I’m looking forward to playing together; it perhaps is the only time we don’t argue. Rišo Rybníček, who was with us at our beginnings, will play drums, so we will perform in our most classic formation. For him, it will actually be the first Pohoda as a drummer of Bez ladu a skladu. We keep our fingers crossed for him... :).” The Trenčín legend of alternative music will appear at home in less than a month.  → read more

Pohoda 2022 will also have Czech band Bert & Friends, whose members claim that they have returned from 2050 to save the music scene with their songs and they say about their work: “Bert & Friends is Karel Svoboda and David Lynch, alternative and pop, campfire and jazz, it is hyperbole and seriousness, the beauty and the beast.” The band is led by Albert Romanutti. Graduated composer and conductor, he is the originator of the soundtrack to the film Two Ships; for several years, he was also a member of the band Katarzie. He is responsible for the viral hit Plody Moří as well as the great live album “2050: Live at Strahov” and we are glad that they will return from future to the Trenčín Airport in just a month. → read more

For almost four days, the Trenčín Airport will become the third Amazon site, after Bratislava and Sereď. The company will be there not only because many of their employees love Pohoda, but mainly to help bring the festival to those who, unfortunately, will not be able to be there physically. And just as they deliver every day to its customers what they need, the Amazon stream will deliver the “food” for the ears (and eyes) to all fans of quality music, festival atmosphere, and Pohoda. After Pohoda in the Air, we decided to focus more also on the festival livestream. We will bring live streams of concerts from several stages and hope to stream them in the best possible quality. We will try to do this in cooperation with Amazon. → read more

The Icelandic band GRÓA, which offers a powerful mix of alternative post punk and improvisations, will also perform at Café Kušnierik in just a month. Their motto is energy, energy, and again energy, which is exactly what they bring to their live shows. This is confirmed by the Icelandic music critic Arnar Eggert: “With GRÓA it is clearly noticeable what is going on from the first note. Here is passion, energy, creativity, agitation, fun and joy. There is hardly a pulse measurable in you if you do not notice this after about a half flow through one of their songs.” → read more

The Icelandic Saturday at Café Kušnierik will offer also a concert by only twenty-year-old songwriter Arny Margret. A native of the picturesque Westfjords region, she released her debut EP Intertwined this February. Clash called the eponymous single breathtaking and suggestive. The Flood magazine likens Arny to Aldous Harding and José González, and writes about her EP: “It emits the kind of warmth that welcomes vulnerability, like friends around a winter fire unlocking secrets and fears never spoken before.” → read more