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All You Can Eat

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2015

Article: Album Review

Italy continues to be a source a wonderfully original and thoroughly modern jazz. Maybe there's something in the water over there but, for whatever reason, everytime I check my e-mail or snail mail there seems to be something wonderful and Italian in it. I keep hoping for a pair of handmade shoes, a nice shirt, or ...

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Marcello Giannini: Frammenti

Read "Frammenti" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
May 18, 2015

Il chitarrista napoletano Marcello Giannini ha già avuto modo d'imporsi in significative e variegate collaborazioni: con Enrico Rava (On the Dance Floor), i 99 Posse (Cattivi Guaglioni e Curre Curre Guagliò 2.0), Daniele Sepe (Canzoniere illustrato), Cristiano Arcelli (Brooks), il gruppo Slivovitz e altri. Questo disco, realizzato per l'etichetta di Marco Valente, è il ...

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Slivovitz: Bani Ahead

Read "Bani Ahead" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
January 6, 2012

Slivovitz--also the generic name for a type of plum brandy popular throughout the Mediterranean--is a fascinating jazz-rock band that's been around for a decade or so. Bani Ahead, its second recording for the MoonJune label and third overall, is a charming blend of jazz and progressive rock with pronounced Balkan and circum-Mediterranean folk influences. Part of ...

Album

Bani Ahead

By Slivovitz

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Egiziaca; Cleopatra Through; Fat; Vascello; 02-09; Opus Focus; Bani Ahead; Pocho.

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Article: Record Label Profile

MoonJune Records: A Decade of Progressive Rock Documentation

by Mark Redlefsen
October 5, 2011

On a moon of this past June, appropriately enough, Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the progressive jazz label MoonJune Records, gave All About Jazz an interview at the label's office in Union Square, New York City. The name MoonJune Records, which Pavkovic started back in 2001, is taken from the title of a song, “Moon In June," ...

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Slivovitz: Hubris

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 17, 2010

Fortunatamente il gusto del calembour e della provocazione ironica che troviamo nei titoli dei dodici brani di questo album li ritroviamo anche nella musica variegata e un po' pazza che possiamo ascoltare. A cominciare da quella “Zorn a Surriento" che avremmo voluto ancora più sulfurea, visto l'omaggio al folletto newyorchese. Rimane solo da chiedersi se il ...

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Hubris

By Slivovitz

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Zorn A Surriento; Caldo Bagno; Mangiare; Errore Di Parallasse; Ne Carne; Ne Pesce; Dammi Un Besch O; CO2; Sono Tranquillo Eppure Spresso Strillo; Canguri In 5; Tilde; Sig M. Rapito Dal Vento.

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Slivovitz: Hubris

by Nic Jones
December 3, 2009

For fusion to have any auditory impact these days it arguably has to be played with a twist, something to take it beyond the level of a series of technical exercises. As a band, Slivovitz seems to realize this, but the degree to which it transcends the self-imposed limits of the idiom is questionable, especially when ...