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Michal at ILMC conference
Yesterday, Michal introduced Pohoda to the audience through a documentary about festival’s green solutions. Several attendees left nice comments regarding festival and camping sites’ cleanliness on Twitter. The French We Love Green Festival appreciates Pohoda’s idea of encouraging artists…
Pitchfork names Anna Meredith’s album Varmints Best New Music
As the author of the review, Laura Snapes, says, “Her trademark as an arranger is intensely detailed maximalism, but with a keen sense of pop phrasing that keeps things limber. Her first wholly independent project reveals her to be one of the most innovative minds in modern British music: She…
Three short videos from Bažant Pohoda 2014
You can now watch three short videos from Bažant Pohoda 2014 online. Each one of them is different – Polish server Mine TV that came to our festival for the first time released a nice aftermovie; Curaprox Company prepared a minidocumentary about atmosphere in their chill out tent and musician…
387 performances took place at Bažant Pohoda 2014
387 performances took place at the festival Bažant Pohoda 2014, and amongst these were 167 concerts, 61 dance workshops and other workshops, 16 theatre performances, 68 debates, 24 literary readings, 48 films, 1 dance competition, 1 slam poetry event, and 1 magic show. 66 authors were introduced at…
Ernest Ranglin & friends
Self-taught guitar player, Ernest Ranglin became one of the most recognized players of this instrument. In the year when Rolling Stone released their debut album, Melody Maker readers rated him as the best jazz guitarists of the world. He has collaborated with artists like Millie Small, The Wailers (Bob…
Hollie Cook
Hollie grew up listening to the music of artists such as Marc Bolan, David Bowie, and The Cure. In 2006, she went on tour with The Slits. In was in this band where, besides the role of a vocalist and keyboard player, she first was also an author of a song ("Cry"). In 2010, she started cooperation…
Flying Lotus
Just like Thundercat, Flying Lotus comes from a family of acclaimed musicians (John and Alice Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane and Marilyn McLeod). FlyLo is a big fan of movies, comics and games. This taught him to interweave music with the stories and visual aspects of his work. According to Pitchfork,…
Thundercat
Thundercat has music in his blood. Literally. His father, Ronald Bruner Sr., is a world-class jazz drummer (The Temptations, Diana Ross, etc.) as is his brother, a Grammy Award laureate, Ronald Bruner Jr. (Roy Hargove, Stanley Clarke, etc.). It was his brother who brought Stephen to join Suicidal…
Oratnitza
In world music (or rather ethno fusion), Oratnitza is a Balkan export article. They started out as musicians playing on the streets of seaside resorts. With a number of gigs played, their fanbase spread out from coasts of the Black Sea to Europe. These talented musicians also import a quality…
Anna Meredith
Anna Meredith combines conventional music education (Royal College of Music) with significantly unconventional methods. Her work typically features original instruments. More often than not, the instruments you see sound different than expected (for example, a bassoon transformed into “Slash electric…