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| MoonJune Celebrates 15th Anniversary -BIG PROMOTIONAL SALE Dear Friends in Music MoonJune Records is celebrating its 15th Anniversary this month. I have never thought I would be arriving to this point when I started the label in June 2001 with my first three releases, launching since then the total of 79 great albums of progressive music that explores boundaries of Jazz, Rock, Avant, Ethno and The Unknown. MoonJune artists are congregating from various parts of the world - Indonesia, United Kingdom, Brazil, Spain, Japan, Uruguay, Serbia, Canada, Belgium, Israel, USA - into one friendly place, which is the Planet MoonJune's Extended Family, and in the name of all my artists, I thank You all for the great support during all the fifteen years. During the month of June 2016, MoonJune is offering a very SPECIAL SUPER SALE. 15 CDs for only $99 (Free Shipping in the USA, $30 shipping anywhere else) or 15 Full albums Downloads for only $69. This offer is valid only until June 30th. Once You made Your donation, please e-mail us Your selection, and Your order will be shipped the same or the next business day. For more info about each of MoonJune Records' releases, You can go to: www.moonjune.com or www.moonjunerecords.bandcamp.com Yours truly LEONARDO PAVKOVIC MoonJune Records | MoonJune Music | MoonJune.Asia The following CDs are NOT available: Elton Dean & Mark Hewins "Bar Torque", Finisterre "Storybook", TriPod "TriPod", Soft Machine Legacy "Soft Machine Legacy", D.F.A. "Kaleidoscope", Arti & Mestieri "First Live In Japan", Phil Miller "Conspiracy Theories", D.F.A. "4th", Alex Maguire Sextet "Brewed In Belgium", Beppe Crovella "What's Rattlin' On The Moon", Slivovitz "Bani Ahead", Allan Holdsworth "Hard Hat Area", Marbin "Last Chapter Of Dreaming", Soft Machine Legacy "Burden Of Proof". MoonJune Records came into being in 2001. The company represents the fruition of vision from entrepreneurial producer, tour manager and promoter Leonardo Pavkovic, and draws its name from Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt's famous 1970 epic, "The Moon in June." MoonJune has already established its' pedigree with "in-the-know" progressive music fans. The focus of MoonJune is to discover and release music by artists from a variety of international settings - exploring the expanding boundaries of genuine, challenging, "non-over-produced music" that cannot be easily categorized into any specific format or genre. The ongoing goal of MoonJune is to support music that transcends stylistic pigeon-holing, but operates within an evolutionary progressive musical continuum that places jazz at one end and rock at the other. The ever-expanding boundaries of these two musical categories have since come to include everything from progressive rock to ethno-jazz, from experimental avante-garde to jazz-rock, and anything in between. Few testimony about MoonJune Records. FROM MUSICIANS Leonardo is what we would have to call a serious music enthusiast. It's the only explanation for his continued and tireless dedication to the music and Artists he looks after. His years of work with Allan Holdsworth alone should put him on the shortlist for sainthood. He wholeheartedly and unselfishly represents music which would not be called "mainstream" but is of great and sometimes historical importance to musicians and fans of jazz, fusion, and prog. And Leonardo continues to do great work in our unique corner of the music business. Thanks for keeping this flame alive! – Jimmy Johnson bass player (Allan Holdsworth, James Taylor, Dewa Budjana, Steve Gadd, Sergio Mendes, Flim & The BBs, Henry Mancini) So it's been fifteen years already since Leonardo Pavkovic started out on the MoonJune label ! It's time to look back and salute his amazing achievements as a record company owner, a discoverer of new sonic landscapes and a visionary manager capable of anticipating new developments in jazz and rock while maintaining his focus on the legacy of past revolutions. Because Leonardo's vision and erudition know no physical or mental boundaries, MoonJune might seem an oddity founded by a starry-eyed idealist, a rather utopian proposition in our increasingly prefab musical world, but to me, MoonJune is not just a record label pushing out alternative music. It feels more like a family of like-minded musicians keen to explore new grounds while collaborating with each other and engaging in a dialogue between the past and the present. Leonardo has succeeded in creating an environment for post-Canterbury, post-jazz-rock, post-everything artists to find and follow their own paths. As far as I am concerned, bands like douBt and Machine Mass simply would not have seen the light of day without his unflinching support. And it is largely thanks to his efforts that The Wrong Object's visibility has increased exponentially over the last decade.Since its inception in 2001 MoonJune has received rave reviews worldwide, enjoying a reputation unmatched by any other "small" label. It has also managed to attract countless emerging talents alongside legends such as Allan Holdsworth, Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Soft Machine Legacy. I am extremely proud and grateful to have been, and to continue to be, part of one of the musical world's most extraordinary venture. – Michel Delville guitar player (The Wrong Object, Machine Mass, Doubt, The Gödel Codex, Comicoperando) In these days of immense difficulty brought on by the sudden, drastic devaluation of our art, it is, undoubtedly more than ever before, great to have gallant and determined ambassadors of music around - especially when they come in the form of fellows like sir Nardini, who's company, MoonJune, now celebrates it's 15th year championing, pioneering and relentlessly forwarding artists and their work. Here is a man who gets behind everything and everyone he believes in - whatever the hardship and unfeasibility he faces - with gusto, wisdom, integrity and with real heart. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been a part of a number of innovative, far-reaching and hugely significant projects he has brought about, and I look forward to every opportunity I hope to get in the future to do the same. His continual support and management of our mutual friend and genius Allan Holdsworth over many years has been monumental, he is a true visionary, he is a walking encyclopaedia of progressive music, and in addition to all of this, his constant energy and enthusiasm appear to be literally unceasing! Leonardo, thank you, congratulations and huge respect to you sir! You are a colossal inspiration to us all, and more than everything, a great friend and human being. – Gary Husband, drummer/pianist (John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, Allan Holdsworth, Billy Cobham, Level 42) It’s no exaggeration to say that MoonJune Records literally changed my life, in the best way possible. Before I first encountered Leonardo – through simply ordering a Soft Machine archival release from the MoonJune website and receiving his kind and curious reply – I’d had a long and respectable music career, but remained well below the public’s radar. All of that changed when Leonardo generously offered, to my great surprise, the opportunity to release my work on MoonJune; now, six releases into the best label relationship a musician could ever wish for, awareness of my work has increased exponentially, as have the many deeply satisfying performance opportunities that have come my way as a result, from Siberia to Mexico. Equally important, my association with MoonJune has brought me into an extended family of mutually supportive kindred spirits, from the remarkable roster of nonpareil MoonJunista musicians from all over the globe, to the uncommonly attuned listeners who give our work its raison d’etre. Like its namesake orb, MoonJune steadily casts its light across a commercially ravaged musical landscape without ever capitulating to ‘the market, ’ a rare paragon of musical virtue in ever more culturally bankrupt times. Boundless thanks to Leonardo for your belief in me and the other members of MoonJune’s singular tribe, and for bringing nourishing musical sustenance to fearless listeners worldwide – long may the Moon shine! – Dennis Rea (Moraine, Zhongyu, Iron Kim Style) MoonJune is much more than a records label and a booking management agency. It is a musical planet within our crazy world where great music is made and heard. Leonardo Pavkovic is the most incredible and passionate music lover I've ever met. His knowledge of music, musicians and beyond is huge. In our very difficult time when the music business almost doesn't exist, Leonardo manages to make so many things happen and doesn't give up on it. I am extremely happy to be part of the MoonJune planet and I wish Leonardo and MoonJune many more great years and success. – Yaron Stavi, bass player (Mark Wingfield, Phil Manzanera, Robert Wyatt, David Gilmour, Nigel Kennedy, Richard Galliano, Gilad Atzmon, John Etheridge, Asaf Sirkis) MoonJune stands out because it doesn’t get caught up in pointless concepts like “is this too jazzy for us?, maybe this isn’t jazzy enough, is this too rock?, is this world music?" etc… Instead MoonJune works with criteria like, “how high is the quality of this music, what feeling does it have, is there something really new here”. That’s why the MoonJune label has become associated with quality and innovation. MoonJune ignores the conservative critics who reject or downplay anything outside their own restricted genre biases, and looks to the place where musical innovations have historically always happened, in the genre free mixing of influences. When it comes to committing the crime of presenting genre defying, innovative music in a world of compartmentalised, risk averse, musical mundanity, Leonardo Pavkovic is the Godfather. – Mark Wingfield, guitarist FROM PRESS Since first becoming aware of MoonJune write your comments about the article :: © 2016 Jazz News :: home page |