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Olaf Bender started experimenting with 16mm film as the medium “film” as well as the raw material “film” during school time. Thanks to his love for film, in 1988, he became a member of the East German band AG Geige and got into musical aspects. Together with Frank Bretschneider…
Papyllon
Back in 2010, at the very beginning of their musical journey, Papyllon already shone on the scene as winners of a talent contest Prešovský Liverpool. In 2015, they released EP Sink or Swim and introduced it to the audience in the neighboring countries as well as at festivals such as Rock…
Michal Kaščák received the Outstanding contribution to music award
Michal became a prominent figure of the alternative music scene as a teenager, when he was the singer of the band Bez ladu a skladu. Subsequently, he performed in many other bands (as a singer in Neuropa, drummer in the punk band VBPS, and the first and second violin in the band Hore Belu Voda Beží...).…
Concerts for Ján and Martina in Košice, Nitra and Bratislava
Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová met in Nitra during their studies at the Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University. University teacher Július Fujak and folklore ensemble Ponitran are also connected with the university and another local ensemble, Zobor,…
Dälek
Experimental hip-hop band Dälek formed in 1998 in Newark, NJ, around a lineup of Dälek (Will Brooks), Oktopus (Alap Momin) and Joshua Booth. After a hiatus, the band appeared on the scene again in 2015 with lineup featuring MC Dälek, DJ rEK and Mike Manteca. In 2016, they released LP Asphalt…
Eurosonic 2019 focusses on Czech Republic and Slovakia for the first time ever
Slovak artists used to appear in Groningen more or less sporadically, which Pohoda and Wilsonic teams declared, for example, by naming their foosball teams “Why There Are No Slovak Artists Playing at Eurosonic”. This partially changed in 2016 thanks to focus on central and eastern European…
Onuka
“We discovered Onuka at Eurosonic 2017. They put on an amazing show; their use of tradition in electronic music is exceptional, imaginative and unforced. I think that any artist from Kraftwerk to Prodigy would like to compose a song like “Vidlik”,” said Michal Kaščák. Eugene…
Yasmine Hamdan
The first time we saw Yasmine Hamdan was in 2004 when she played with her project Soapkills at Womex. Together with Potkan, host at Hudba sveta_FM (World Music_FM) program, we were standing in the front row, completely mesmerized by amazing music and since then, we’ve been trying to have Yasmine…
tUnE-yArDs at Pohoda 2018
NYC native Merrill Garbus first played in several bands on the East Coast, but after she worked with Nate Brenner on her first album, she moved to California. The debut BiRd-BrAiNs was originally recorded DIY-style with handheld voice recorder and then released on recycled cassette tape. Its…
Ride
Ride founding members Andy Bell and Mark Gardener met in 1988 at Cheney School, appearing in the school’s musical theater productions. Laurence Colbert and Steve Queralt joined them at art school in Banbury. Jim Reid of The Jesus and the Mary Chain came across the copy of their demo and it then…