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London Elektricity Big Band
London Elektricity will perform at Pohoda 2017 twice: as Big Band and as a DJ set. This project of Tony Colman, the pioneer of the Drum & Bass genre and a co-founder and chief of Hospital Records, is also referred to as fast soul music, thanks to the spectacular delivery by the 22-member big band…
B-Complex
One of the most distinctive export articles of the Slovak music scene, B-Complex, will be playing Pohoda as well. Matia, who’s behind the project, has played clubs, cities as well as festivals across Europe and beyond. In 2010, Radio_FM named her Discovery of the Year. Her track “Past Lessons…
Tolstoys
A few minutes before we came to announce in program “Ráno na eFeMku” that Solange would be playing Pohoda, band Tolstoys were playing live in the studio. Great sound, vocalist Ela’s original voice and a nice mix of dream pop and acoustic music caught our attention right away.…
Kieslowski
Pohoda 2017 will also see a Czech urban-folk duo Kieslowski. Kieslowski is guitarist and vocalist David Pomahač (a.k.a. DKP) and vocalist and keyboardist Maria Kieslowski. They played festivals such as Waves Vienna; Urkulte in Sweden and Frazy in Poland. “Kieslowski know how to write a powerful…
The Ills
They are played on KEXP, mentioned by NPR, Clash, and the BBC. IQ magazine editor in chief Gordon Masson included them in the selection of bands to be seen. Vic Galloway of BBC Scotland likened them to the best of post-rock Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai. They received a positive feedback from the…
Ghost of You
Another amazing band from Czechia confirmed for this year’s Pohoda is Ghost of you. This export article of the Czech music scene has more than 200 gigs under their belt, including shows played at the biggest Czech festivals, a series of concerts in London or a gig at Sziget festival as winners…
M.I.A.
British rapper, singer-songwriter and visual artist M.I.A. played Pohoda back in 2011. The amazing show she put on was the main reason why we wanted to have her play our festival again. She herself added a couple of good arguments, too: excellent albums Matangi (2013) and AIM (2016) on which she collaborated…
Slowdive
Thursday evening at Pohoda will be completed with the legend of shoegaze Slowdive and one of the most abroad successful Slovak bands The Ills. Pitchfork wrote that Slowdive recorded 3 out of the 15 best shoegaze recordings of all time and NME included two of their albums in a similar chart (TOP 10).…
Les Amazones d’Afrique
The greatest vocalists and musicians of West Africa have joined voices to support gender equality. Band Les Amazones d’Afrique is a phenomenon on the world music scene that cooperated with the likes of Nneka or Mariam Doumbia (Amadou et Mariam). Their concert at last year’s Womad in London…
La Mambanegra
Catchy Colombian melodies and rhythms will be played also at Pohoda 2017. They will be delivered by band La Mambanegra, which was, ranked by Billboard one of the five Colombian bands that you should know. As Guardian put it, the first class musicians deliver their energetic mixture of salsa, Caribbean…