Another reconfirmed name of Pohoda 2021 is the joint transatlantic project of Hudson Mohawke and Lunice – TNGHT. Seven years after their fantastic debut, which greatly influenced the electronics of the past decade, they’ve returned to the scene with the album TNGHT II. It’s not the kind of music suitable as background noise or music you’d hear in a café. Hud Mo and Lunice describe it as the most perfect record they’ve ever made in terms of instrumentation. The result is excellent electronics with no categories applicable. It’s a record that falls outside the market rules or the expectations of others, one the duo made on their own terms. As Hud Mo says about the album: "I think it’s a good indicator if something sounds weird and refreshing to us". → read more

Tittingur are releasing their third album called “Epiphany” today. They will perform it publicly in premiere at the Pohoda in the Air festival. In fact, it will be a digitally-streamed public release of the album, which is, paradoxically, their first recording on analog media. The band said that in the new album, they are moving into yet more abstract territories of the zeitgeist sound of electronic music. Ambiguous rhythms, ferocious synths, inexplicable collages, braindancing; everything more explosive, piercing and exaggerated than ever before. Broken sound dystopia and a view of the natural world in decay. The album was created mainly in Copenhagen over the past year and it will be released as the first Tittingur album on a disc under Weltschmerzen label. https://tittingur.bandcamp.com/ → read more

Another reconfirmed name for Pohoda 2021 is the British rap star - Slowthai. As mentioned by Hypebeast, "he is a turbulent punk rocker born in the era of grime." In May 2019, he released a debut album called Nothing Great About Britain, on which he collaborated with artists such as Mura Masa, Skepta and Slaves. The album made it to a top 10 of British chart, The Guardian placed it among ten best albums of the year and gave it the highest possible rating. Portal Dazed put the album to the third place among top recordings of the year. Slowthai was also nominated to the Mercury Prize. He is one of the undervalued voices of his generation whereas his texts serve as a manifesto of poor suburbs and excluded communities.  → read more

The Pohoda Visual Art Contest jury decided to evaluate both the proposals for material and on-line art. The winner of the 6th edition of the contest is Andrej Kolenčík and his project “Coming Soon”. The intention of this short ecologically engaged video is to evoke in the viewer a worrying feeling about the future and to provoke a disputation about the topic with the controversial execution of the video. The fate of the twins as a symbol of the next generation will be unclear and untold. What is the future of our children in the current functioning of the world?   → read more

The Slovak-Hungarian band Drť released their debut album Puntičkár on May 15th with the Pohoda festival record label. It is dedicated to the victims of persecution, repression, and murders of the communist regime. The author of the project is the composer and saxophonist Miroslav Tóth, also known for his collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. The band also includes other well-known musicians—composer Lucia Chuťková, Marek Buranovský (Vojdi), Márton Csernovszky (The Best Bad Trip), Áron Porteleki (Thisnis, Dorota), and Michal Kaščák (Bez ladu a skladu). The songs are muzicalization of the statements of the former head of the State Security Service, Alojz Lorenc, and the stylization was taken care of by Marek Kundlák. → read more

The latest re-confirmed names for Pohoda 2021 are Thom Yorke Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, Glass Animals, Jenny Hval and Liraz. During Pohoda Day_FM, festival representatives also revealed the winner of the 6th edition of Pohoda Visual Art Contest, Andrej Kolenčík, and info regarding Pohoda in the Air festival. The first confirmed artists for the festival are Milan Lasica,  Dorota Nvotová and the electronic duo Tittingur. → read more

Ultrazvuk, Čavalenky, Luvver, Isama Zing, Blanch, and Fvck Kvlt will perform this Friday, May 15, as part of Pohoda Day_FM. In addition to the concerts, the festival representatives will announce more reconfirmed names of the rescheduled 24th edition of Pohoda and the winners of the Pohoda Visual Art Contest. They will also reveal the first information about the Pohoda in the Air festival. The Slovak-Hungarian band Drť will present their debut album and release their first music video; and the Báseň 2020 (Poem 2020) contest will be announced. Director Lucia Kašová will talk about the documentary Orchestra from the Land of Silence (Orchester z krajiny ticha) of the Pohoda production about the first Afghan women's orchestra Zohra. The festival representatives will present a new ecological initiative of the greenest European festivals, the Green European Experience. In the afternoon, the current situation will be discussed by epidemiologists, and in the early evening on the Baláž & Hubinák show, people from behind the scenes of culture will discuss the topic of Culture in the (bad) times of the coronavirus. → read more

Together with three other festivals, Pohoda Festival is a part of the Green Europe Experience (GEX) project. Our festivals are known for supporting creativity. What we also need to take into account when implementing our ideas is the limited availability of resources our planet has to offer. We will be working on this project for three years. During this time, we will create, test and assess new environmental approaches with focus on sustainable festival food and scenography.  → read more

A quick reminder that the deadline for Pohoda Visual Art Contest is approaching – there is one week left for submitting your proposals. The new challenge concerns the online Pohoda in the Air festival, so in addition to the works for the airport area, we are also opening a special category for digital works. Proposals will be accepted until midnight next Wednesday, May 13, and the names of the winners will be announced on May 15 during Pohoda Deň_FM. You can enter the contest by filling in the form available at www.pohodafestival.sk/en/contest. → read more

Today we went been to Trenčín Airport to check the Pohoda in the Air venue. We will tell more in live broadcasting of Radio_FM during Pohoda Day_FM on Friday, 15th of May 2020.  Stay tuned ;) → read more