3910 search results
PJ Harvey released the album Hope Six Demolition Project
She recorded The Hope Six Demolition Project before the eyes of the public in an improvised studio in Somerset House. The recording also reflects the journey she took with photographer Seamus Murphy that brought them to Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington D.C. Oliver Rehák of Denník N writes:…
Vaults
Guitarist and songwriter Ben Vella with producer Barney Freeman were recommended by a common friend to see the appearance of singer Blythe Pepino. She was then acting in a street theatre and using a special therapeutic singing method to teach people with learning disabilities. Ben and Barney asked her…
We are looking for co-creators of our festival
The call includes any expression of spatial arts. These may be objects, happenings, space media, installations, and interactive works with intermedia projections that will become part of festival life. After the conclusion, the proposals will be evaluated by a professional jury and selected proposals…
Mbongwana Star
The core of the seven-member band Mbongwana Star consists of two former members of the famous Congolese band of wheelchaired persons and street children named Staff Benda Bilili (members Coco Ngambali and Théo Ntsituvuidi) and the Irish producer Liam Farrell (Doctor L). Liam met the band through…
Farmer’s report: sunflowers to bloom at Pohoda again
Vladimír Jurčák, the boss of plant production, manually spaded the site (it took him only a few weeks; he was tired and destroyed at the end but slimmer and happier, too), then, as a reward, he used a cultivator to cultivate it and fertilised it with organic fertilizer, which are sheep…
Xenia Rubinos
Laura Snapes of Pitchfork says there are 4 basic components of her music: Xeniaʼs electric smoky voice, keys with an expressive drive resembling electric guitar, a lover of syncope – drummer Mark Buccelli, and funk bassist Adam Minkoff. Xenia ideally mixes all her essential musical influences,…
Lola Marsh are returning home
They first came to Pohoda as an unknown Israeli band, but immediately gained many fans here. A small autumn tour in Slovak clubs and another performance at Pohoda followed, the latter one in front of an audience of over 20 thousand people. In the…
Pohoda ranked among the sixteen best festivals in the world
The author of the text in the magazine particularly highlights the interesting location of the festival, a wide range of different arts, and their genre diversity. www.jetsetter.com/feature/best-summer-music-festivals-2016?nm=magazine photo: Jaroslav Novák…
Max Jury
Max started playing piano at the age of 6. His first attempts at song-writing are symptomatic – he used music to move on from a break up and, subsequently, to cope with anything that happens in life. He got into the prestigious Berklee College of Music twice and twice he dropped out to pursue his…
Moonlandingz
The fictional band project was started by the video for the song “Sweet Saturn Mine” that was released on Valentine's Day last year. In the video, British actress Maxine Peake acts as an obsessive fan of Johnny Rocket, a singer of a local band Moonlandingz. The song gained an immediate…