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John Kelman's Best Releases of 2018

by John Kelman
December 19, 2018

Once again, the chronic health problem that has reduced my writing pace to a crawl continues without any respite. My best of the year lists have traditionally been predicated upon having reviewed the releases chosen, but with only a relative handful of reviews to choose from this year (and with those choices, more than ever now, ...

Dwiki Dharmawan: Rumah Batu

by Friedrich Kunzmann
November 30, 2018

On his third album for Moonjune Records, Indonesian pianist Dwiki Dharmawan delivers a highly focused work and presents a wide array of styles, bound together by a core quintet and one common musical vision. While its predecessor Pasar Klewer found Dharmawan working with two alternating guitarists over a two-disc set of compositions, on Rumah ...

Clarinet Tales with Arun Ghosh

by Nick Davies
October 30, 2018

This show features an interview with clarinetist Arun Ghosh from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. We talk about everything, from music in general to his composing and the recorder. We also discuss his latest album But Where Are You Really From. Plus lots of new music from artists like D.F.A. through to Beledo. Playlist ...

Dwiki Dharmawan

Dwiki Dharmawan is one of Indonesia’s most gifted and celebrated music personalities: a multi-genre keyboardist, composer, producer, peace activist and cultural icon. With a career spanning over 30 years and performances in more than 70 countries, Dwiki remains one of his country’s most popular and respected industry stalwarts. On his debut for MoonJune, listeners were treated to an exotic musical mélange of the highest order — featuring fusion, jazz and progressive rock luminaries, Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip, as well the legendary violinist, Jerry Goodman. “So Far, So Close” featured adventurous compositions, augmented by sleek arrangements and performances. His follow-up release, “Pasar Klewer,” cruised at even higher altitudes — earning Dwiki a coveted 5-star review in the iconic Downbeat magazine, the widely read and highly respected All About Jazz, as well as equally exalted praise from respected music critics across the globe

Dwiki Dharmawan: Rumah Batu

by Ian Patterson
July 17, 2018

Dwiki Dharmawan's international debut, So Far So Close (MoonJune Records) (2016), pitted the Indonesian pianist with Jimmy Haslip, Chad Wackerman and Indonesian six-string maestros Thopati and Dewa Budjana in a mostly conventional jazz-fusion setting. On Pasar Klewer (2017) Dharmawan gave vent to his incredibly broad compositional palette, with a genre-bending mash-up featuring Jerry Goodman, Mark Wingfield, ...

Dwiki Dharmawan: Rumah Batu

by John Kelman
June 10, 2018

There are, in these times of reduced music sales, fewer and fewer models that help niche labels to survive. In the case of New York-based MoonJune Records and its intrepid head Leonardo Pavkovic, the path to survival seems increasingly more about doing what he does for the love of it, and less about fiduciary gain (much ...

Leonardo Pavkovic: Nothing is Ordinary

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2018

More than any other person, Leonardo Pavkovic has made me write some crazy shit. Pavkovic is the primal force behind the joyously eclectic MoonJune Records, which he established in 2001. “Established" may not be the right word: “I am truly an unusual and rules breaking call-it-record-company with a 'label' identity despite the fact that ...

It Must Be Jazz

By Dwiki Dharmawan

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dwiki Dharmawan - Pasar Klewer (Pasar Klewer) 12:13 video; Dusan Jevtovic - Yo Sin Mi (No Answer) 08:33 video; The Wrong Object - Saturn (Stories From The Shed) 06:52; Soft Works - Baker's Treat (Abracadabra) 05:40; Jason Smith - Up, Up And Away (Tipping Point) 06:17; simakDialog - One Has To Be (Patahan) 13:34; Beledo - Marilyn's Escapade (Dreamland Mechanism) 08:40; Mark Wingfield - A Conversation We Had (Proof Of Light) 04:50; Vasil Hadzimanov Band feat. David Binney - Nocturnal Joy (Alive) 11:23; Talinka - Talinka (Talinka) 04:27; Doubt - The Invitation (Mercy Pity Peace & Love) 04:00; Iron Kim Style - Adrift (Iron Kim Style) 07:44; Soft Machine Legacy - Kings & Queens (Burden Of Proof) 06:46; Phil Miller In Cahoots - Press Find Enter (Conspiracy Theories) 08:27; Dewa Budjana - Erskoman (Joged Kahyagan) 07:43; Othello Molineaux - Havona (Gospel For J.F.P. III - Tribute To Jaco Pastorius) 06:27; Slivovitz - Barotrauma (All You Can Eat) 05:41; Savoldelli Casarano Bardoscia - The Great Gig In The Sky - Money (The Great Jazz Gig In The Sky) 07:38; Hugh Hopper - Some Other Time (Numero d'Vol) 02:37; Tesla Manaf - Counting Miles & Smiles (Tesla Manaf) 04:59; Wingfield Reuter Stavi Sirkis - Fjords de Catalunya (The Stone House) 09:45; Machine Mass feat. Dave Liebman - Centipede (Inti) 04:43; XaDu - The Place With A View (Random Abstract) 04:55; Tohpati Ethnomission - Mata Hati (Mata Hati) 06:36; Holdsworth Pasqua Haslip Wackerman - It Must Be Jazz (Blues For Tony) 08:38.

Pasar Klewer

By Dwiki Dharmawan

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: CD1: Pasar Klewer; Spirit Of Peace; Tjampuhan; Forest; London In June. CD2: Lir Ilir; Bubuy Bulan; Frog Dance; Life Itself; Purnama; Forest (instrumental).

Dwiki Dharmawan's Pasar Klewer Plays Indonesia

by John Ephland
March 25, 2017

Dwiki Dharmawan's Pasar Klewer Various Locations Bandung and Jakarta, Indonesia March 2-5, 2017 It was supposed to just be a soundcheck and rehearsal. But the energy and focus delivered as Indonesian pianist/composer Dwiki Dharmawan ran his Pasar Klewer band through the various numbers most of this group had recorded in ...