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| MoonJune Records continues its Don Quixotesque Journey with New Productions and a Big Special Sale for MoonJune's Honcho's 56th Birthday Dear Friends & Music To celebrate my 56th birthday (May 17th), I am engaging in another madness, to produce more non-compromised untrendy non-commercial music to be released in 2019. MoonJune is a different label, I only work with musicians who are friends and who understand difficulties in today's music "business" environment (music business, what is that?). I am heading now to a very magic place, La Casa Murada, an XI Century mansion owned by renowned Catalan rock musician, excellent sound engineer and friend Jesus Rovira, one hour west of Barcelona, in the proximity of the very famous Priorat wine region. Some of my best friends-musicians, and among the most talented musicians I am aware of, will be with me: innovative guitar genius Mark Wingfield, drums/piano/keyboards uber-maestro Gary Husband, drum poet Asaf Sirkis, XXII century music visionary Markus Reuter, and my new friend bassist extraordinaire Kevin Glasgow. La Casa Murada 3.0 is happening on May 19/20/21/22/23/24. We will create some fantastic music, have some amazing local food, enjoy fabulous local wine, be in a magic environment. Life is great! La Casa Murada 1.0 took the place in February 2016 and several albums from those 6 magic days were already released: WINGFIELD REUTER STAVI SIRKIS "The Stone House", DUSAN JEVTOVIC "No Answer" (with Vasil Hadzimanov and Asaf Sirkis), WINGFIELD REUTER SIRKIS "Lighthouse" and MARK WINGFIELD "Tales From The Dreaming City" (with Yaron Stavi and Asaf Sirkis. La Casa Murada 2.0 took the place in May 2017 and three albums from those sessions will be released this year: DWIKI DHARMAWAN "Rumah Batu" (with Nguyên Lê, Carles Benavent, Yaron Stavi, Asaf Sirkis), DUSAN JEVTOVIC' next studio album (with Gary Husband, Markus Reuter, Bernat Hernandez) and DWIKI DHARMAWAN "Hari Ketiga" (with Markus Reuter, Boris Savoldelli, Asaf Sirkis). La Casa Murada will become an annual gathering of selected current and upcoming "moonjunistas" and might turn into something else, in the near future. In order to continue this donquixotesque journey, MoonJune and "moonjunistas" can be helped simply with supporting what we are doing and buying some music, either in digital or physical format. We are in a survival mode and struggling, but stubbornly convinced that we must go forward, must continue to create and support art, and we cannot surrender, no matter how difficult it is in today's music business environment. Rather than consuming our energy complaining about the streaming fandango and decline in interest in culture and arts, we prefer to quietly continue what we like. You can read about my unusual way in the recent interview in All About Jazz with the great Chris Slawecki, "Nothing Is Ordinary": https://www.allaboutjazz.com/leonardo-pavkovic-nothing-is-ordinary-leonardo-pavkovic-by-chris-m-slawecki.php And have another news to share, I decided to write a book together with my dear Seattle friend and "moonjunista" extraordinaire Dennis Rea, an excellent musician (Moraine, Iron Kim Style, Zhongyu) and published author of books. It will be fun! Thanks for the support. Leonardo MoonJune Pavkovic MoonJune Records – an unorthodox out-of-box rules-breaking record label accidentally established in 2001 by the urge to help an old friend, the legendary Elton Dean (R.I.P.), and named after Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt's famous 1970 epic "The Moon in June" – has already established a name for itself with "in the know" fans. Its focus is to release internationally-situated music by artists exploring the expanding boundaries of genuine, challenging, non-over-produced music that cannot be easily categorized into any specific format. MoonJune Records' ongoing goal 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 avant-garde to jazz-rock, and anything in between and beyond. www.moonjune.com write your comments about the article :: © 2018 Jazz News :: home page |