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We have launched a website dedicated to film Orchestra from the Land of Silence
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European festivals outlined the form of the 2021 festival summer
Vaccination of the most vulnerable segments of the population and people from critical infrastructure, increasingly accurate and faster testing options and a natural decline in respiratory diseases in summer months give culture fans hope. Other representatives of the European festivals joint in the Yourope…
Fulu Miziki at Pohoda 2021
Fulu Miziki means “music from the garbage” in the local Lingala language. The collective of these multidisciplinary artists creates instruments from waste and tirelessly discovers new possibilities of sound in them. They also make original masks and costumes from thrown away items. The…
We wish Slovakia good health
“With hope, joy and admiration for the scientific community, we welcome the beginning of the vaccination process in Slovakia. We are aware that in addition to the indisputable health aspects of this important preventive tool, vaccination is also a necessary step towards the full functioning of…
The artists of Pohoda 2021 scored in the end-year best albums charts Several performers of Pohoda 2021 and their albums scored in the end-year selections of renowned media. Yves Tumor was on fire – his album Heaven To A Tortured Mind was praised by Pi
Yves Tumor’s album Heaven To A Tortured Mind released last April, conquered a place in several of The Best Albums of 2020-charts. According to www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2020/ they reached the 14th place when making the total aftermath of music reviews published. The Guardian…
Purity Ring at Pohoda 2021
Singer Megan James and producer Corin Roddick started Purity Ring in Edmonton, Canada in 2010. Two years later, they debuted with Shrines, featuring Jon Hopkins. The album was included by several magazines (Pitchfork, DIY, Spin, Gigwise, etc.) in their yearly selections of the best recordings. The song…
The Doma dobre festival to take place online, the problems of the homeless remain in the real world
The festival will be opened by Katarína Zagorski, who, as part of the Kilometre Dance, will bring the audience on a daily route of homeless people from the nearest public transport stop to the dormitory. After that, Dorota Nvotová will perform together with Marián Slávka and…
Devendra Banhart at Pohoda 2021
Devendra Banhart was born in Texas and spent his childhood in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, but left the school and moved to Paris. He lived there for a while as a homeless man, began to pursue music and soon opened shows for bands…
Orchestra from the Land of Silence, a documentary produced by Pohoda, is at international festivals and has also been nominated for film awards.
On November 8th and 9th, at noon, the attenders of the online version of Jeden svet (One World) festival will also be able to watch the film. The Slovak premiere will also include a discussion entitled "What is the role of music in the struggle for freedom?" Orchestra founder Zohra Ahmad Sarmast,…