Pohoda in the Air will host Raptor Koch with his 50th album entitled The First Album. Raptor started with fairy tales Havko Piťko, continued with the project Peacar and Pas mech aliby, from which the current Raptor Koch emerged. He also won over the attenders of the Dutch festival Pinguin Radio Showcase and last year's Pohoda with songs such as Veľký pán slon, Mucha Jara, or cover versions Nepobočkana a Zvieratá. → read more
The Martinus Literary Tent is opening its gates at Pohoda for the eighth time. The programme was again prepared in cooperation with literarnyklub.sk, this time, however, in a virtual form and in unusual places. Writers Balla, Vlado Janček and Laco Kerata will perform at the Literary Circus of KK Bagala, books will be read by Zuzana Fialová and Robo Roth. FCVK KVLT, Fejbs, Modré hory, Boy band will be featured in LiteRAPture. Jakub Jošt and Oliver Rehák will play three chess-literary-philosophical games with Ján Markoš and poems wll be read at the airport control towers. → read more
Pohoda in the Air will also host darlings of our team, Midi Lidi. After the Give Masterpiece a Chance! album, they recorded music to many movies such as Prezident Blaník, Trash on Mars Soundtrack, Divoké bytosti and Republika Blaník, and in January they again started recording songs for their new album (during 2 weeks they worked on approximately 40 tracks) – first songs are Nejsi v tom sám and Hemmennex. Whether the new tracks will be a part of their set list at Pohoda in the Air next week remains unclear, as title of their concert is: Major hits unplugged. → read more
Veľká Potreba first performed at Pohoda in 2017 on the Garage stage as a couple of artificial-fabric-wearing punk rockers combining guitar riffs with robotic beats and a plastic trombone. The band has since played several concerts in various countries and expanded by three members. The bigger formation has debuted with V rohu a few weeks ago. With its childish precision, naive nihilism, and a sense for generalization, the album anatomizes the desires and frustrations of the individual in meeting their daily needs. In just a few days, they will play songs from their debut live at the on-line festival Pohoda in the Air. → read more
A romantic concert at sunset will be played and danced at Pohoda in the Air by the festival favourite—a one-man-box band with an extremely entertaining live show, Ventolin. Throughout the day David Doubek, aka Ventolin, lectures on cultural anthropology at Charles University, at night he entertains people at gigs. During the decade on the scene, he’s become one of the most sought-after electronic producers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. → read more
One of the non-traditional venues of Pohoda in the Air will be a military radar locator. Here, Slovak-Hungarian band Drť will play songs from the album Puntičkár. The author of the project is the composer and saxophonist Miroslav Tóth, also known for his collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. The band also includes other well-known musicians—composer Lucia Chuťková, Marek Buranovský (Vojdi), Márton Csernovszky (The Best Bad Trip), Áron Porteleki (Thisnis, Dorota), and Michal Kaščák (Bez ladu a skladu). The songs are muzicalization of the statements of the former head of the State Security Service, Alojz Lorenc, and the stylization was taken care of by Marek Kundlák and they are dedicated to the victims of persecution, repression, and murders of the communist regime. → read more
We discovered the band Fulu Miziki from Kinshasa literally a few days ago; we quickly fell for their ability to find inspiration in a dump and transform it into a unique artistic statement. 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. → read more
Noisecore band 7 minút strachu will also play at Pohoda in the Air. They’ve played 111 concerts and released 77 records with labels from around the world, mostly on tapes and vinyls. In addition to Central Europe they also played in America, Japan and South Korea. Their line-up includes drums, bass, sew and screamo. In their own words, they play classic haraam merzb'n roll mixed with Ulaanbaatar freejazz. Before their gig in Kubík, Consumeanddie collective wrote aptly about them: "Who released the most songs, separate albums and destroyed the most eardrums in Slovakia? These guys. 7 minutes in their name are not just for fun. They really play for 7 minutes. They can't do it longer, because no one would survive." → read more
Pohoda in the Air will also feature Stroon with his Preludes & Embers project, which is basically a selection of songs from his two albums – Solar Preludes and Temple Timbre Embers. The latter was released at the end of May. It's formally based on contemporary church music and dance electronics, and in terms of content on the themes of love, energy, joy and space. This is his third album since the beginning of the year, in addition to the record Songs of Concealed Amplitude and EP Infant Territories which he released under his other alter ego Early Millenial. → read more
The Nitra indie-electťro-pop band LUVVER will play Pohoda in the Air too. They combine a dreamy and melancholic atmosphere with uplifting harmonic soundscapes, intertwined with four-to-the-floor downbeats and powerful vocal melodies. They were nominated in the Newcomer of the Year category and won the Advance Investments Foundation award (grant for music production) at recent Radio_Head Awards 2018. They have just recently released new songs Vile/Divine, Viber, Dark Times, and #StayMild from the upcoming debut “It is what it is”. For Pohoda in the Air, they have chosen the most dance set with songs they have not played live yet. → read more
