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

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

Vladimír “Potkan” Potančok alias DJ Mooshak is another confirmed name of Concert for the Attentive in Nova Cvernovka. After having graduated from ethnology and social anthropology, he is currently the editor of the magazine Slovenský národopis and the moderator of the radio program Hudba sveta on Rádio_FM. In 2015, he co-founded the World Music from Slovakia platform, later hosting the Percussion Festival and World Music Festival Bratislava. His sporadic DJing was replaced by a series of popular-science lectures on the unusual musical instruments Cverna v uchu in the Cabinet of Slowness (2018 – 2019) in Nová Cvernovka and later the regular opening of Elektrohafla evenings (2019 – 2020). At the Concert for the Attentive, Mooshak will perform on his home stage and is preparing an eclectic two-hour afterparty for visitors. → read more

The Wilderness is another confirmed name of Concert for the Attentive in Nova Cvernovka. The band is an absolute proof that punk at its best is not dead. Great lyrics, excellent music and uncompromising attitudes make The Wilderness an essential band on the Slovak music scene. Their video for the song “Čo s tým hnevom” (also made at Pohoda 2018) was named the video of the year by Hudba.sk.  → read more

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