Parisian filmmaker Vincent Moon, who has won multiple awards for his music videos for rock bands and artists such as Sufjan Stevens, R.E.M., Tom Jones and Arcade Fire, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to press on vinyl and release on the Le Saule label the collection "Chansons du Pérou" — a compilation of Peruvian music recorded during a three-month journey. The non-profit initiative, promoted on the Ulule platform, comes after an incredible journey through the most remote places of Iquitos, Cusco, Lima, Pucallpa, Mara and Ayacucho.

"I wanted to make 33 films, a matter of life or death. After all, it's a mystical number. I was about to spend three months in Peru with not the slightest idea of what I would do," the filmmaker explained. But then he met Justina, a singing teacher and healer in a village near Pucallpa, the Andean Orquestra Tipica with twenty saxophonists, and Manuelcha Prado, one of the greatest guitarists in South America.

A curiosity to explore the cultures and sounds of the world at close range — documenting in particular the relationship between music and trance across the five continents — has led Vincent Moon to live literally on the road since 2008. In just a few years, he has filmed and recorded a countless amount of traditional music and religious rites, from shamanic ceremonies in the heart of the Amazon to the peripheral rituals of Hanoi, taking in the noise scene of Singapore and Sufi dances in Chechnya.

Vincent Moon's ethnographic gaze on today's world, as experimental as it is poetic, is collected on his "nomadic" label Petites Planètes. Here he pours out productions made alone or with people encountered along the way, more often than not launching projects without financial resources, seeking to make and distribute his films far from the standards of the Western cultural industry.