MOONJUNE RECORDS MoonJune's ongoing goal is to support music that transcends stylistic pigeon-holing, but operates within an evolutionary musical continuum that places jazz at one end and progressive rock at the other. The ever-expanding boundaries of these two musical signposts have since come to include everything from jam-rock to the avant-garde, neoclassical, experimental music and more. As MoonJune continues to grow so, too, will its commitment to representing this evolving musical space. Particular emphasis is paid to current and archival performances, as well as innovative genre cross-pollination. (Artists who fit in the above description of music genres are more than welcome to send audio and video promos/demos/press kits.)

To date MoonJune has released a handful of records, but its broad scope has already been defined through the inclusion of an archival 1975 live recording by British Canterbury jazz/rock legend Soft Machine (Floating World Live), new live music from Italian progressive rockers DFA (Work in Progress Live) and Finisterre (Storybook), a tribute to the late bassist Jaco Pastorius (Gospel for J.F.P. III) and an eponymous studio release from New York-based avant-rockers TriPod.

Another goal for MoonJune has been to bring together musicians whose paths have intersected in the past, just not necessarily all at the same time. Soft Works, the first such effort, brought together Soft Machine alumni Elton Dean (saxophones, electric piano), Allan Holdsworth (guitar), Hugh Hopper (bass) and John Marshall (drums). After one studio album and a brief tour, Holdsworth moved on and was replaced, in 2005, by guitarist John Etheridge. Renamed Soft Machine Legacy, the quartet released Live in Zandaam and the 2006 studio recording Soft Machine Legacy. With Dean's untimely passing in 2006, SML is continuing on with woodwind multi-instrumentalist Theo Travis - a leader in his own right, co-leader of the ambient electronica band Cipher and member of recent incarnations of Gong.

A newly-inked North American distribution deal will provide MoonJune with significantly greater visibility, allowing it to step up the pace of releases in 2007, with upwards of twenty titles planned.

Already in the works are new studio releases by SML; legendary Canterbury guitarist Phil Miller and his jazz-centric group In Cahoots; and Numero D'Vol, a new improvisational quartet featuring Hugh Hopper.

Live recordings are already in the can by Italian progressive band Arti & Mestieri, a late 2005 collaboration between Elton Dean and French improvisers The Wrong Object, and Los Angeles-based drummer Jason Smith's trio featuring bassist Dave Carpenter and Gary Husband, who trades his better-known drummer cap for his no less-accomplished keyboard fedora.

Planned reissues include a two-CD set featuring remasters of DFA's first two albums (1996's Lavori in Corso and 1999's Duty Free Area) with added bonus tracks; and the beginning of a series of remastered Phil Miller titles, available in North America for the first time . MoonJune will also aim to create greater international presence for groups such Indonesia's simakDialog representing very different aspects of the progressive fusion arena, with albums previously only available in restricted markets.

MoonJune Records, named after Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt's famous epic 'The Moon in June," has already established a name for itself with "in the know" fans. Now, with increased visibility and distribution, it will raise the profile of its growing roster of artists to a larger audience vizibility and distribution, it will raise the profile of its growing roster of artists to a larger audience.