
Feb. 13 → May 4
Jean-Marc Vallée: Mixtape
The story of a Quebec filmmaker shaped through music
Centre
Free
Saturday: 3 pm*
*The semi-direct broadcast of the performance will happen on this page
LIVE Event on PHI.ca
Afro-centric collective Moonshine presents a hybrid performance combining song, music, dance and djayin with live audiovisual broadcasting in front of an audience.
Featuring their fourth album, SMS FOR LOCATION, Vol. 4, this project brings together the collective's main MCs, DJs and musicians, including Pierre Kwenders and San Farafina, accompanied by a set designed by resident visual artist Boycott.
PHI invites you to attend a semi-live broadcast of the performance on this page on December 4, 2021.
featuring Pierre Kwenders, San Farafina, AKAntu, Uproot Andy, Comme un grand, Felix Noê, and Kizaba (Percussion)
Depending on whom you ask, the esoteric effects of lunar cycles can be wide-ranging: good fortune, human fertility, ocean tides, werewolf prevalence and loss of sanity among them. For the like-minded musicians, DJs, dancers and visual artists who make up the Moonshine collective, the planetary satellite above all inspires their eponymous monthly event, driven by an inclusive ethos and a shared love for experimentations in dance culture.
Since its founding in 2014, Moonshine has carved out an enviable niche in Montréal’s nightlife milieu by celebrating a wide range of fledgling local talents, championing Afro-futuristic, bass-heavy, electro-funk sounds, and bringing together communities that wouldn’t necessarily cross paths otherwise. As the name indicates, the lunar-based Moonshine recipe has the collective throw an all-night, sensory-soaked party on the Saturday after every full moon in ever-shifting, unpredictable locations across the city, always strictly disclosed via text messages. With fresh cuts supplied by resident DJs Pierre Kwenders, San Farafina, Odile Myrtil and AKantu, visual installations by Boycott, and a slew of live musicians and performers that have included Kaytranada, Dâm-Funk, Le1f, Venus X, DJ Windows 98 (Arcade Fire’s Win Butler), Bambii and Branko, the parties have become a staple of the after-hours scene, in Canada and abroad, with appearances in NYC, LA, Paris, Brussels, Milan, Lisboa, Barcelona and Santiago.
“The essence of Moonshine came out of parties we used to throw in our kitchens,” recalls Kwenders. “We felt like we couldn’t go out and find what we had cooked up in that kitchen. It’s one of the reasons we started Moonshine: to share that with more people who felt just like us, and who didn’t have access to such sounds or vibes.” Still going strong four years on, Moonshine has also begun making use of the aesthetic, network and structure it established with the parties to promote affiliated artists, expanding its vision from ephemeral moonlit soirées to an expanding catalog of genre-busting music, art and apparel.
This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada
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