RADAЯ: Open-air live sessions in Pankow 

03.08.2023

NANACO is a versatile artist. She showcases her versatility every time she plays her violin. She transforms everything with her music. While her focus is on jazz, her versatility allows her to blend any style professionally, from hip-hop and R&B to classical. Her musical influences result from over 10 years of traveling worldwide, immersing herself in knowledge and culture to combine with her Japanese culture. Besides violin and vocals, Nanaco uses loops, consoles, and keyboards to create huge soundscapes in her performances.
She enjoys going out, playing freely in the streets, participating in jazz jam sessions, and discovering new people and places. Due to her constant artistic projects, Nanaco always travels between Berlin and Tokyo, the two places she has defined as “her two homes.”
Instagram: @nanacoviolin.

10.08.2023

KAYAN Project. With a strong influence from the Middle Eastern culture, the quartet led by the main voice, Eden Cami, transcends border and language barriers. Adding improvisation and original compositions, Kayan Project creates a fascinating and emotional atmosphere on stage, bringing together two sister languages and musical traditions with Arab and Jewish roots in a boldly positive approach for today’s times. This vocal vibration is enhanced by the sober instrumental sound of a double bass, oud, percussion, and drums played in each of their compositions.
Instagram: @kayanproject

17.08.2023

ASTAN KA encompasses it all. She is a performer, composer, singer, dancer, actress, model, and art curator. She refers to herself as the “daughter of reconciliation” due to her dual culture (French-Malian). Her musical universe constantly experiments with various genres such as jazz, punk-rock, afro-tech, trip-hop, slam, and trap. Currently, she is working on a musical universe she calls “Gangsta Jazz” and leading the band “Asphalt Djelis,” whose compositions blend nostalgia from the past with futuristic sounds. Her compositions deal with love, life, friendship, protest, intellectual rebellion, and women’s and racial rights. While much of her work celebrates black women, her message is strong and clear about universality. Instagram: @tisskeen

07.09.2023
D.$AHIN. The mix between R&B and Indie-rock-pop of her compositions comes from the influences between her two worlds: traditional Turkish music (Saz, the Turkish guitar) and Western pop music. Originally from Istanbul, D.$HAIN arrived in Germany in the early 1990s with her family as a refugee; she was granted asylum and citizenship as a teenager. D.$HAIN versatility is infallible. It´s her voice and guitar. It may sound like just a definition, and is not. It´s a musical spectacle.

14.09.2023
Zazuka. This is the artistic name of the Jordanian producer, and composer, Zeina Azouqah. She began her career at a young age traveling from Amman to Beirut and Cairo with musical and theatrical productions. Through these experiences, she offers an authentic style for cross-cultural musical arrangements and compositions. Her voice oscillates between the wise and the mischievous, navigating Arabic, Turkish, and English lyrics, while the arrangements travel between sparse soundscapes to glorious polyphonies and tapestry of counter melodies.

28.09.2023
Canto Diáspora. Under the direction of the Colombian singer, Carolina Riaño, Canto Diáspora is a women´s choir from Berlin. It is made up of more than 20 women from different origins, mostly Latin American migrants, who intertwine their voices in Spanish to find collective songs that belong to the Latin American popular songbook, such as traditional rhythms like the Colombian bullarengue and the Bolivian cueca giving the audience the best of the Latin American roots. Canto Diáspora is a meeting point for migrant woman in which, through the music, the strengthen sisterly ties.