Barbara Panther and Jahcoozi represent a cosmopolitan Berlin where multiple influences meet and give rise to hybrid sound signatures. For her first engagement in France, Barbara Panther chose la Gaîté lyrique to showcase her flamboyant, universal and sometime melancholic style. Influenced by her collaborations with such varied artists as Björk, REM and Yoko Ono, and produced by Matthew Herbert, "Grace Jones of the years 2010" is a devastatingly charismatic energy bomb ready to be discovered in preview form during Berlin Next !

As for the members of the Jahcoozi group, they could never have met each other except in Berlin: an alliance between a jazz musician from Tel Aviv, a London-based singer of Sri Lankan origin and a local producer, the group makes the most of a cocktail of ethnic influences, digested in Berlin's electronic reggae.