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Something is growing. Sound. Movement. Conversation. A rhythm rooted deep, branching outward. Circles forming. Ideas unfolding. Layers connecting like rings in wood. [ Afro Brasilica. ] Coming soon. 📍: @contxtbytrane 🎶 : @trusttheprocesspress (@lupinore @olasconola ) 📸 : @sambaranthony 🖼️ : @skeirgallery

A month since we wrapped MiBoSo: Prose In Focus @contactphoto at @decoytoronto - and the amount of time it took for us to soak in the energy and reflect on an incredible exhibition. Extending infinite gratitude to Decoy Bar, our host venue, and the entire team (Brandon, Jordan, Corey, Michael, Marisa), CONTACT Photography Festival, our family and friends (old and new). Thank you! Gratitude: @decoytoronto @brandonslimbs @decoreytoronto @_voltage_drop_ @stickeryou @cubanokings @familystyle

Just a bit over two weeks left. 📷 Breaking Sound, the photography exhibition by Rhandy Adolphe (SAMBAranthony), part of the @contactphoto Festival, is still up at @highnotesco , 2057 Dundas Street West. To everyone who's stopped by so far, thank you. It's been a joy talking through the work and the process with you. The exhibition wraps up with a closing event on Saturday, May 30th, more details on that coming soon. And yes, there's a giveaway happening. Check the link in the bio for details. If you haven't made it out yet, now's the time.

A huge thank you to @djronjon for joining us last week for Afro Brasilica! It was a special one. We’d love to have you back soon. In the meantime, we’re at @contxtbytrane every Thursday. See you tomorrow. 🙃 🎉 Afro Brasilica 📍 254 Lansdowne Ave (upstairs) 🕖 7 pm doors, 8-11 pm music

This week! Thursday, May 14 @contxtbytrane : Afro Brasilica is excited to welcome Victor Monsivais to the stage, a musician whose understanding and passion for Bossa Nova, Brazilian Samba, Latin Jazz and beyond is something best experienced in person. 🗓️ Thursday, May 14 📍 254 Lansdowne Ave (upstairs) 🕖 7 pm doors, 8-11 pm music For nearly 40 years, Victor has been composing, arranging and performing across genres with a rare authenticity. Over the past decade he’s become a fixture at some of the GTA’s most beloved rooms - The Rex Hotel, Reservoir Lounge, The Gladstone and Lula Lounge. His repertoire pulls from the greatest Brazilian composers, Jobim, Newton Mendoça, Ary Barroso, Dorival Caymmi and Ze Ketti, sung in their original Portuguese. His Latin and Jazz sets carry the same spirit: Buena Vista Social Club, Santana and Ellington, played the way they were meant to sound. Fun fact! Victor is also a trained architect, and it shows. There’s a structure and intentionality to the way he moves through music that makes every set feel like something designed, not just played. If you haven’t caught him live yet, Thursday is a good night to change that.

This week! Thursday, May 7 @contxtbytrane : Afro Brasilica welcomes a dear pal of @trusttheprocesspress - @djronjon - as our special guest selector for the evening. He’ll be sharing some incredible tracks from his collection traveling through the core sounds of this series, and beyond. 🗓️ Thursday, May 7 📍 254 Lansdowne Ave (upstairs) 🕖 7 pm doors, 8-11 pm music Ron Charlemagne a.k.a. DJ Ron Jon has been involved in the music scene both as a DJ and promoter for over 20 years specializing in various musical genres such as rock, jazz, funk, hip hop, alternative, world music and house. He has been a resident DJ at venues such as Insomnia Restaurant and Lounge, the former The Merchant Restaurant and Broadview Hotel over an 8 year span. Ron Jon has also played at other venues such as Thompson Hotel, Gladstone Hotel, Aga Khan Museum, Old Mill Tavern, Soho House, Yauca’s Lounge, Luanda House, Pink Sky, Sofia Restaurant, Radius (Hamilton, ON) and Kost (Bisha Hotel). He is also affiliated with and has played at various events for DJ/branding services Nth Degree Entertainment. dConcept and StokeS Entertainment. Ron Jon has also made appearances on former radio stations CKLN, CHRY and Scarborough Fusion Radio (U of T). He has hosted a weekly world music radio show called Colours of Rhythm on Toronto internet radio station iLive Radio Toronto (to.iliveradio.com) and Drop The Beat on CTRL Room (ctrl.ca), co-hosting with Canadian DJ/recording artist Gene King. He is also a DJ/band member of local Afro-Latin music group RITMO Collective and has performed with them at events throughout the city. He is currently partnered with UK/Canadian recording artist/songwriter Simon Law (a.k.a The Funky Ginger) for a series of DJ events called A Funky Dance Reincarnation.

Join us this Saturday (May 2nd) at @highnotesco to celebrate the launch of Breaking Sound - an exhibition by Rhandy Adolphe (SAMBAranthony) - part of CONTACT Photography Festival. From 12PM until close, step into a space where photography and sound move together. An exhibition you can walk through with an amazing lineup of performances you’ll feel in your chest. All are welcome. Details in the bio. Breaking Sound is a month-long exhibition by Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist Rhandy Adolphe (SAMBAranthony). Through a body of work that fuses sound and sight through movement, the exhibition translates photography into visual sound waves captured through dance and DJ’ing. The installation explores vibration as a shared language; one capable of bending perception and dissolving boundaries between what we hear and what we see. At its core, Breaking Sound reflects on the idea that all sensation originates from the same material force: vibration itself. Visitors are invited to move through the space at their own pace, whether in stillness or in motion, and to return throughout the month to experience the work from new perspectives. We’ll be raffling off an exclusive print from the exhibition, with the winner announced at the end of May. So come through early, come back often, and give yourself a few chances to take a piece of it home! DJs and Performances: DJ Ron Jon (@djronjon ) | 12:00pm - 1:30pm Soul, Funk and House The MAZZz (@mazzucadpi ) | 1:30pm - 3:00pm Disco, New Wave, Electronic and specializes in the genre of “HSIHNHTIA” (holy shit I have not heard that in ages) Dimitry (@handdrawndmitry ) | 3:00pm - 4:30pm psych, rock, r&b, folk, instrumental, new wave, disco, electronic, & jazz) olasconola (@olasconola ) | 4:30pm - 6:00pm Sound Travels : A sonic journey around the world. Baila! K2 (@sonomadic_music ) | 6:00pm - 6:45pm Free jazz improvisation Jeff Paris (@jparis1976 ) | 6:45pm - 8:15pm Vinyl-only former rave DJ. Detroit techno snob. Deep crates, zero compromises. That Dude From Lupinore (@lupinore ) | 8:15pm - 9:00pm Zouk, Kompa, Funk, Soul, House

We’re getting ready for #InternationalJazzDay on Thursday, April 30 - what better way than to celebrate @contxtbytrane for our Afro Brasilica residency! A small sample of the many records we have lined up for you! Join us at 8 pm - April 30. 🗓️ Thursday, April 30 🕖 7 pm doors, music from 8 pm to 11 pm 📍254 Lansdowne Avenue 🎟️ RSVP in bio 🍽️ excellent dinner by @honeyguruinc

A cultivation space for joy, movement and energy. Always. Through sound and image. Conversation and connection. We are back tomorrow - Thursday, April 23 - for Afro Brasilica at @contxtbytrane . Delivering the goods through a b2b DJ set paired with incredible dinner offerings by @honeyguruinc ! APRIL 30: we celebrate International Jazz Day with our finest records and a special film screening! 🎥 🎶 MAY 7: guest DJ set by @djronjon in the sprit and format of his former, much loved and longstanding radio show Colours Of Rhythm 🔊 PWYC / kindly RSVP in bio to hold a spot! 🎟️ 🗓️ Thursday, April 23 / April 30 / May 7 🕖 8-11 pm 📍 254 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto

Breaking Sound is a photography exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Rhandy Adolphe (SAMBAranthony) as part of this year’s CONTACT Photography Festival (@contactphoto ) Through a body of work that fuses sound and sight, the exhibition translates photography into visual sound waves and explores vibration as a shared language; one capable of bending perception and dissolving boundaries between what we hear and what we see. At its core, Breaking Sound reflects on the idea that all sensation originates from the same material force: vibration itself. Visitors are invited to move through the space at their own pace, whether in stillness or in motion, and to return throughout the month to experience the work from new perspectives. May 1 through May 31, 2026 @highnotesco - 2057 Dundas St W Opening Reception : Saturday May 2nd 2057 Dundas St W, Toronto 12 PM - 9 PM Featuring a lineup of local DJs and performers - TBA soon. Looking forward to welcoming you at the exhibition reception, and excited to share this body of work throughout the month of May. Link in Bio to RSVP. We extend gratitude to High Notes Coffee + Vinyl (@highnotesco ) for fostering a space where art and music can harmoniously co-exist. Can’t express how much new music and new artists have been discovered within its walls.

Sak pase, Monreyal? @trusttheprocesspress will be in La Belle Province for some friends, digs and spins. Next Saturday, April 18 @barlerecord : crossing the borders of time and place with Ondes Continentales: an unbounded night traversing sonic landscapes of some of our many favourite styles, on wax. @lupinore and I are excited to spin alongside our pals @rhythmandhu.es (Tumbao, La Murga, CHI Archives) and @vinyl_love_mtl (Vinyl Caravan)! Two awesome, community-driven people with deep knowledge of their diverse and ever expansive crates. Learn more about them below! No cover, needle drops at 9 pm! 🗓Saturday, April 18, 2026 📍7622 Rue St-Hubert Montréal, QC 🕘 9 PM - 2 AM 🖼️ @sambaranthony *** 🪩 DJ Rhythm & Hues has been setting dancefloors alight for over a decade, in places as far-flung as Mexico City, Cotonou, New York and Hong Kong. Co-founder of the Tumbao DJ collective, his specialty spans the afro-latin-brazilian-caribbean spectrum, with a predilection for vinyl. He is currently resident DJ at La Murga, a popular salsa dura monthly. 🧳 Maxime Daigle has been active in Montréal music scene with different DJ projects like Vinyl Love Collective founded in 2010. He is also the co-founder of Vinyl Caravan, a company that organised many record fair and pop up dance party since 2017.

Bringing that casse croute de vinyles @ 180 g on Friday, April 17 - @olasconola & @lupinore (Trust The Process Press) kick off Rhandy’s birthday weekend with mixed crate magic behind the decks at one of our fave spots to dig in Montreal! We’ll be playing a myriad of stuff: reggae, house, r&b, NJS, zouk, international grooves, etc. etc… 🗓 Friday, April 17, 2026 📍 180 g, 5866 Av. De Lorimier, Montréal, QC 🕘 8 PM - LATE!