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Palestinian 'Techno Queen' Sama' Abdulhadi at Pohoda 2022
Sama’ Abdulhadi is a native of Ramallah, Palestine. Her first experience with music was first connected with hip-hop and rap, but it was the technical side that drew her in first, leading her to study in Beirut. She returned to Palestine with a new understanding of electronic music, inspiring a…
Liraz at Pohoda 2022
Liraz’s family emigrated to Israel in the 1970s on the brink of the Iranian Revolution. Israel is where Liraz then grew up, in an Iranian community that held on to many of their traditions. However, a painful memory of a country left behind and to which members of her family can never return…
Kokoroko at Pohoda 2022
The name of the band means “to be strong” in the language of the Nigerian tribe Orobo. Kokoroko is a group of excellent musicians coming from the London jazz community. The band reflect the rich history hidden in the genome of their musical role models and roots, both in topics and performances.…
Trupa Trupa at Pohoda 2022
According to Metro, they are combining post-punk and psych with skill. “The Beatles sing Joy Division oversimplifies them but doesn’t misrepresent them”. According to The Guardian, “the band’s music blends off-kilter melodies, dense instrumentation and lyrical explorations…
Confidence Man at Pohoda 2022
Confidence Man finally made a breakthrough with their performance at The Great Escape and Glastonbury in 2017. After their show, Gigwise compared their sound to a combination of LCD Soundsystem and The B52s. After their concert at Pohoda, the same website wrote: “If it’s a…
Noga Erez at Pohoda 2022
In her music, Noga Erez discusses global issues, sexual violence and problems that affect her native country and both sides of the conflict – especially common people. The titles of her songs such as "Dance While You Shoot" or "Globar Fear" are also very telling. According to…
Snail Mail at Pohoda 2022
The impact of sudden success on the young person required a break in the form of residential treatment, during which she did not have musical or recording instruments at her disposal, so she noted down her first ideas for the second album on paper in the form of poems and tablatures. She developed…
Sigrid at Pohoda 2022
She gained attention in Norway with the song Sun already at the age of 16, but the groundbreaking hit on an international scale in was the song Don’t Kill My Vibe (from the eponymous 2017 EP). Another same-year single, Strangers, brought her even more success, bringing her to the Top 10 charts…
Kevin Morby at Pohoda 2022
Morby moved to New York at the age of 17, where he made his living as a messenger and waiter, and played bass in the band Woods. He and his roommate Cassie Ramone founded another rock band, The Babies. High rents drove him to another bastion of contemporary music, to Los Angeles, just like it happened…
Mezerg at Pohoda 2022
With this project, Mezerg pays homage to jazz bars and nightclubs, their whirl of energy and irresistible sounds. He sets the rhythm with his feet, plays melodies and harmonies with his hands, and at the same time, he controls a number of effects that complete the colour of his musical expression.…