The Pau, an exceptional phenomenon on the Polish alternative scene is another confirmed name of Concert for the Attentive in Nova Cvernovka. Paulina performs alone, with an electric guitar and a mic. She records everything else on her own and stores it in her phone. With her modest behaviour, intense concerting and strong songs, she has gained many fans and in Poland she plays alongside the biggest names of the independent scene.  → read more

David Koller, the fundamental member of the Czecho-Slovak music scene, will perform at the Concert for the Attentive in Nova Cvernovka accompanied with his band. Koller was first active in the alternative band Jasná páka and then played in bands Žentour, Pražský výběr, and Blue Effect. In 1987 he co-founded Lucie, one of the most successful bands of Czechoslovakia. In March 2015, he released the album ČeskosLOVEnsko and in April this year, the album brought him three statuettes from the Angel Award issued by the Czech Academy of Popular Music: for the best singer, best album and band of quarter-century (Lucie). Koller in several songs of his latest album criticises the tendency of the powerful to turn to the Communist past. “I would be happy if our government didnʼt draw us the east direction”, was his message during the ceremony of the Angel Award issued by the Czech Academy of Popular Music. → read more

The pioneers of electro-oriental music Acid Arab live will also perform at Pohoda 2022. The Parisian band already stole our hearts away at Pohoda 2017. They play Eastern music on analogue rhythmic and bass boxes and create oriental acid, which is a fusion of cold techno, emotions and drama-charged orient. According to Pitchfork, their album Acid Arab Collections “is among the most enthusiastic collections of any sort of dance music to come out in recent memory.” The BBC presenter and DJ Gilles Petterson’s favourites released a great album Musique de France at the end of 2016 and in 2019 they added a new release Jdid with the band's new member, keyboardist Kenzi Bourras. They will present their new line-up and new music at the Trenčín airport in 2022.   → read more

After a yearʼs break, the Concert for the Attentive will once again have visitors, as well as a wonderful line-up. To commemorate with us the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Nová Cvernovka on the 17th November will be David Koller with the band, an exceptional figure of the Polish alternative scene The Pau, the uncompromising punk rockers from Trnava The Wilderness, and Vladimír “Potkan” Potančok aka DJ Mooshak will take you on a trip to remote worlds of music.  → read more

The Pohoda on the Ground festivals were perhaps best reflected by the concerts of the band Fulu Mizki. A relaxed atmosphere, a great dose of creativity, improvisation, collaboration, a lot of energy and many other positive attributes could be mentioned to describe this tireless band from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fulu Miziki use waste to create original masks, costumes and musical instruments, in which they are constantly discovering new sound possibilities. Under the varied visual-performative execution of the concert and afro-futurist masks lays a strong pan-African message of peace and a reference to the bad ecological situation in their home country and around the world. → read more

Another reconfirmed great name of Pohoda 2022 is Floating Points. London producer Sam Shepherd (who, by the way, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience) has been recording under this stage name since 2008. In March 2021, he released the album Promises, which took five years to record and which features the ingenious jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra. This masterpiece already deservedly appears in the preliminary selections of the best albums of the year, which The Quietus describes as follows: "It astonished ... It is a celebration of sound at its finest and most pure: from the smallest scratch to cathartic crescendos, from spiralling improv to contemplative silences. Every note, whisper, bleep, and shift is significant. It is marvellously multifaceted but never obnoxious: a refreshing, one-of-a-kind conversation between jazz, classical, and electronic." → read more

Another re-confirmed name for Pohoda 2022 is the British-Korean duo Wooze. With their amazing shows as well as special collaborations the festival was definitely not short of (for instance, they welcomed Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw on stage to play Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” cover together) and with the way they had fun during other bands’ concerts, this band stole our hearts at Pohoda on the Ground. In the summer, they contributed to the compilation of cover tracks of The Strokes’ legendary album Is This It. A few days back, Wooze released their second EP Get Me to a Nunnery. According to Dork magazine, the EP “supersedes expectations, examining what the 80s’ would look like today”. DIY adds Wooze “have set their stall on crafting a stylish and riveting brand of indie-disco, and they have achieved just that”.  → read more

Another confirmed name of Pohoda 2022 is Black Midi.In late June 2019, they released their debut Schlagenheim, which brought them a nomination for the prestigious Mercury Prize and fantastic reviews. According to Paste magazine, the album is: “experimental, genre unclassifiable, extremely noisy with exceptional results. Schlagenheim is much more than just special, it is the only one of its kind - a masterpiece.” At the end of May this year, they released their second album called Cavalcade and it has already been included in the selection of the top albums of the year by magazines such as NME, SPIN, Stereogum, and many others. NME wrote that with this album, one thing confirmed is that they’re miles beyond the flash-in-the-pan buzz band, it’s certain that they’re here to stay, and their intense fire shows no danger of burning out. Under the Radar add that it’s hard to imagine any rock album this year beating Cavalcade in pure genius. We do believe that we will read similar reactions also after their concert at Pohoda 2022. → read more

We could compile odes from the reactions of the people who saw a Murman Tsuladze concert, or quote various media... But perhaps this time will be sufficient the fact that we begged this French-Georgian band after Pohoda on the Ground to extend their stay in Slovakia and play at our internal afterparty #hairsaloononstage #improvizedjacuzzi #weddingscammers #frenchafrogeorgianelectropop. And so it may not come as a surprise (and we believe that many will be pleased) that Murman Tusladze will make dance the crowd at the Trenčín Airport also at Pohoda 2022. → read more

Brooklyn’s art-punk band Gustaf was formed only in 2018, and already before releasing their debut, they had gained a reputation of one of the most reliably fun bands in New York. The rumours about their qualities spread quickly, so without any recorded music and solely by word of mouth, they sold out concerts in LA during their premiere on the East Coast at the end of 2019.  → read more