Those who experienced Fulu Miziki at Pohoda on the Ground will probably not be surprised that we wanted to bring them to the “big” Pohoda as soon as possible. We are very glad that it will come true already this summer, and not only because they released a great debut EP Ngbaka, praised also by Pitchfork, a few days ago. Even without the praises of renowned critics, we have seen what makes this band special. Their concerts have a relaxed atmosphere, large portions of creativity and improvisations, cheerful fresh music, and positive energy they spread from the stage.   → read more

Pohoda festival 2022 will open its gates in 140 days and you can make the waiting for it shorter with the aftermovie from Pohoda on the Ground. It was again prepared for us by the Roadtrip studio, this time with the dynamic song I’ll Have What She’s Having from our friends from the band Wooze.   → read more

Visitors of Pohoda 2022 will dance also to the music of the Grammy 2017 winner for the best electronic album, Australian DJ and producer Flume. A pioneer and populariser of the future bass genre, he has also a member of the duo What So Not and collaborated with a number of names such as Lorde, Chet Faker, Disclosure, Tove Lo, and London Grammar. He became one of Australia’s biggest stars with his debut Flume, and gained the worldwide success with the album Skin, which The Independent described as the audio equivalent of ecstasy. At the beginning of February, he released the song “Say Nothing” as a teaser for his third album Palaces, which will be out on the 20th May, and visitors to Pohoda will be among the first to hear it. What can they expect from him live? The 303 magazine wrote after his concert at Red Rocks: “A breath-taking odyssey of light and music.” We have been trying to book Flume for years, since our external consultant Robo Brieška told us about him. We are glad that it finally worked out. We are sure that this will be a fantastic end to the Friday’s line-up on the main stage.” → read more

Pohoda 2022 will host also the recognised Palestinian DJ and extraordinarily creative producer Sama’ Abdulhadi. She describes her sets as Berlin techno perceived in a Lebanese way. A major populariser of electronic music in the Middle East, she received her music education in Beirut, London, Paris, and Cairo. She has worked on film music, played at festivals such as Fusion, OFF, and Sziget, and is well known to techno fans due to her great videos on platforms like Boiler Room and Beatport (the legendary Boiler Room video is among the TOP 10 most watched recordings on their favourite YouTube channel). This summer, her excellent techno sets will make dance visitors of festivals such as Coachela, Primavera, Exit, and Pohoda.   → read more

Visitors to Pohoda 2022 can look forward also to the Iranian-Israeli singer, dancer, songwriter, and actress Liraz. In her musical project, Liraz combines modern sounds and beats of Los Angeles and Tel Aviv with ethnic flavors of her Persian / Tehran roots.At the end of 2020, she released album Zan that, in early 2021, took over the renowned World Music charts Transglobal World Music Chart and World Music Charts Europe (WMCE).   → read more

You can look forward also to afrobeat at Pohoda 2022, performed by the London band Kokoroko. The winners of the Band of the Year category at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards and Urban Music Awards became popular thanks to the compilation We Out Here. Clearly most distinctive of the selection of contemporary London jazz bands is the poetic song “Abusey Junction” by the, until then, relatively unknown band Kokoroko, which immediately sky-rocketed and now is reaching 100 million hearings on Spotify and YouTube. At the beginning of 2019, they released an eponymous EP, which was also brought to attention by The Guardian and The Line of the Best Fit. Last year they added dance singles “Baba Ayoola” and “Cary Me Home” and just yesterday they announced a new piece “Something's Going On”. The ethereal song with a twinkling promise of a new era is a teaser for the upcoming album, and this all-star band will delight with it the visitors to the Trenčín airport in just five months. → read more

The Pohoda 2022 line-up will have Belarussan band Molchat Doma. Dark yet danceable, and with a heavy dose of goth ethos, their music is reminiscent of the Russian bands from the 1980s. The song “Sudno” was long one of the top viral songs on Spotify and Tik_tok, and the band usually plays to packed clubs in London, Warsaw, Helsinki, and Berlin. At the beginning of July, they will cheer fans of the post-punk, new-wave and synth-pop genres at the Trenčín airport. → read more

After the great set in front of the tram at Pohoda on the Ground, the talented Ukrainian DJ Miklei will also perform at Pohoda 2022. She plays acid, trance, and techno and is quite well known among Slovak fans of electronic music, as she has been performing and studying in Košice for five years now. Her sets are a fresh mixture of 4/4 bangers, raising awareness about Slovak techno producers while adding a spectrum of eastern underground clubbing influences. → read more

The Polish art-rock band Trupa Trupa has been a good example of the scene from Central and Eastern Europe for several years now, with world agencies, festivals, and Western media continuing interest in their work. Their songs are played by Iggy Pop, Mary Anne Hobbs, and Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music and they have also appeared on the KEXP and NPR Tiny Desk session. They are praised by The Times, Mojo, and Rolling Stone, and we can expect some more praise as early as the beginning of February, when they will release another studio album. As Pitchfork describes, “Trupa Trupa are the rare dystopian post-punk band to embrace optimism and levity as necessary survival mechanisms. They may not have the perfect prescription for a better world, but they welcome you to imagine one together”. This invitation applies to the Pohoda 2022 visitors as well. → read more

Probably the most played song in the office before Pohoda 2018 was "Boyfriend (Repeat)" by Confidence Man. After Glastonbury, Gigwise described them as one of the best live bands they had seen in recent years which was fully confirmed in Slovakia as well. According to The Independent, they launched into a type of tongue-in-cheek, hedonistic ambiguous disco bangers at Pohoda. Living up to their reputation as the summer’s greatest festival band, an hour in their company was the most delirious fun imaginable, combining the ridiculous, the highly camp, and the utterly magnificent." Since their last visit with us, they have recorded several singles. They released the latest one, Holiday, in November, and at the same time also announced the second album, Tilt, scheduled for release in early April. That’s why we didn’t hesitate when the opportunity arose to book them again, and so, at the 24th Pohoda, you will get to see also Confidence Man. → read more