Another name of Pohoda 2022 is the Norwegian saxophonist and artist Bendik Giske. He is known for his great interconnection of music and movement and expressive use of physicality and vulnerability. While the sound of his debut Surrender can be described as stripped to the core: no overdubs, looping, or effects, just his body, breath, the saxophone and a resonant physical space, plus lots of microphones, this year’s album also has a significant share of electronic music, which is also the result of cooperation with producer André Bratten. → read more

If you enjoyed performances that took place on the radar at Pohoda on the Ground, we have great news for you. We will make its area accessible also to visitors to Pohoda 2022. The location will serve as a residential space for the Canadian art collective Crack Cloud. Its members will perform here on all festival days with audiovisual works created especially for our festival. → read more

Pohoda 2022 will also feature Chinese-American singer and producer of electronic music ZHU. In early 2014 he released the song "Faded" which was nominated for a Grammy and was among the top 10 most sold records in several countries. His debut album Generationwhy even made it to the very top of the American dance chart. The artist himself started in anonymity and still keeps a rather low profile. According to his loved ones, he wants to get people to focus primarily on his work this way and not on his personality.  → read more

Pohoda 2022 will also feature the Russian electro-hip-hop band Aigel. AIGEL are: Aigel Gaisina - a poet and singer from Kazan and Ilya Baramiya - a beatmaker from St.Petersburg famous for the last 20 years for participation in various electronic projects. In October, the UK magazine The Line of Best Fit praised their performance at Tallinn Music Week: "On stage, Gaisina’s charismatic presence holds the audience hostage as she sings, raps or speaks her poems in Russian and Tatar with conviction, honesty and pain so powerful that all language barriers seem to break down. But it would not give Baramiya the credit he deserves to overlook how his deep groove fills the whole room and gets the crowds moving." → read more

For the first time ever, Doma dobre will be a multi-day event. Already this Sunday, 12th December, you can watch the livestream from the St. Vincent de Paul dormitory featuring the performance of FVLCRVM. The stream session will also include a debate. The organisers will then share songs by artists recorded from the comfort of their beds on the Facebook pages of Pohoda and Depaul Slovensko at 7 pm each day until the 1th of January. This is to symbolically point out that even an “ordinary bed” is not a matter of course for many people. You will hear songs by Lola Marsh, Jana Kirschner, Bazzookas, Midi Lidi, Katarzia, Chiki liki tu-a, Tolstoys, Štefan Štec, Ventolin, Nina Kohoutova, Lasky, Nina Rosa, Fyasco, Timea, Raptor Koch, Kristin Lash & Jacob Grey, Lomnické Čháve, God & Eve, Quatro Emocione, Braňo Jobus, and 52 Hertz Whale. On Sunday, 26th December, we will return to the dormitory, where we will end the eighth edition of Doma dobre with carols performed by Muzička at 4 pm. → read more

Amazing! We have bursted with joy :)  Trenčín is the European Capital of Culture 2026. Congratulations to the Trenčín 2026 team, we are honoured to have worked with you guys, and we are looking forward to this amazing adventure :) → read more

“On December 1st, the official statement about Grape Festival’s relocation to Trenčín Airport was released. Festival representative Peter Slameň informed me about this decision during a meeting on November 11th and it was indeed a surprising step. A year ago, Pohoda and Grape team representatives held a meeting together where three festival representatives – Ján Trstenský, Juraj Podmanický and Peter Slameň – promised Grape would not be moving to Trenčín. Given our professional and personal relationships, there was no reason to suspect they wouldn’t keep their promise. → read more

10,000 miles and 8 centuries undergone within one single show and stage. This is how we could describe a new project by avant-garde-prog-rock band PoiL from Lyon, France. They were supposed to play Pohoda 2020 already, but the long wait for their premiere in our country has brought something positive as well in the form of new band member additions. The virtuoso trio now has a bass-player Benoit Lecomte from band Ni and traditional Japanese music singer / satsuma biwa (an instrument similar to lute) player Junko Ueda in the line-up. The theme of their compositions revolves around the Japanese epic story ‘Heike-Monogatari’ from the 13th century. In their music, the traditional Japanese music and Buddhist Shomyo chant meet the experimental approaches of a modern European band. You can experience how these brilliant musicians can merge seemingly incompatible elements into an original solid piece at the beginning of July 2022 at Trenčín Airport. → read more

Balming Tiger – a music collective from Soul offering a more alternative or underground approach to K-pop. The band reflects and popularizes culture of the younger East-Asian generation of today’s society and has quickly caught the attention of outlets such as DIY, NME and Stereogum.  → read more

The Pohoda 2022 line-up grew today (again) by an exceptional formation originating at our western neighbours. After more than twenty years, one of the most inventive Czech bands of the 1980s and 1990s will share the same stage with the most prominent lady of the Czech alternative scene, Iva Bittová. Last week they released a selection double album RELOADED – The Best Of 1988 – 1996 mapping the remarkable artistic career of the legend of the Brno scene of the eighties.   → read more