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The Orielles
Since forming in Halifax, West Yorkshire, over a decade ago when they were still teenagers, indie rockers The Orielles have evolved from lo-fi DIY indie origins (2018 album Silver Dollar Moment) to avant-pop (2020 album Disco Volador) and even directed and shot their own experimental film (La Vita Olistica,…
groove&
This year Pohoda has invited groove& – a Korean women’s trio playing traditional and non-traditional percussion instruments who performed at this year's Womex World Music Festival. They draw from tradition and create new songs based on Korean rhythms. That’s what their name…
TRANSmisia
Bratislava-based DJ TRANSmisia is a blend of electronic post-club music influenced by queer sounds, Soundcloud remixes and deconstructive sets. Influenced by underground and hyperpop artists like SOPHIE, Arca or Laura Les, she combines rhythmic melodies and ridiculous sounds. In the local scene, she…
Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal is a noted Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. His compositions appear on albums by Miles Davis and other jazz heavyweights. Pascoal’s sextet is an extra-sensory musical unit that has been with him for over 40 years and used to rehearse daily. The music runs from the lyrical…
Yard Act
Yard Act was formed in 2019 in Leeds. The duo of Ryan Needham and James Smith soon grew into a four-piece band when a drummer and a guitarist joined them. Critics have categorized their music as post-punk and indie rock, but they often use elements of Italo disco and hip-hop as well. Their powerful lyrics,…
Massola
Noisecore band Sedem minút strachu will return to Pohoda in 2023. This time they will share the stage with the similarly tuned Czech duo Massola, who combine jazz and grindcore (and are also known for similarly short but extremely intense performances). It's not yet known for how long they'll…
Wet Leg
At the next edition of Pohoda Festival we will welcome one of the biggest current discoveries and talents in the UK. The indie rock band Wet Leg was formed in 2019. One would think that doing so just before the pandemic was not the luckiest decision. But they used the fact that they could not perform…
shame
shame were tourists in their own adolescence - and nothing was quite like the postcard. The freefall of their early twenties, in all its delight and disaster, was tangled up in being hailed one of post-punk’s greatest hopes. In 2018, they took their incendiary debut album Songs of Praise for a…
Pete & Bas
This is the funniest story and the most serious music yet from the announced names for Pohoda 2023. Come listen to what British drill sounds like, performed by Pete & Bas, two seventy-year-old retirees who mix cockney with contemporary British slang in catchy rap songs. They were discovered…
ERØ
Erik Žigmund aka ERØ is a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Trenčín. He studied guitar at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His work combines elements of various genres, but mainly soul, jazz, R'n'B and folk. He is accompanied by Mirka Čonková on the cajón.…