Shooting For The Moon

Leonardo Pavkovic spends a lot of his life talking. Talking to his family, to promoters, to musicians, to airlines, vehicle rentals, pressing plants, printers, venues, engineers, post office clerks, hotels, insurance agents. Today, in a break from his usual calls, he’s talking to Prog about MoonJune Records, the record label he founded in 2001. Pavkovic isn’t always the easiest of interviewees to follow. Talking at his customary quick-fire speed, he can veer from one topic to another in rapid succession, such is his passion. In part, it’s simply an outward manifestation of the enthusiasm for the music he’s done so much to bring to the listening community.

Named after Robert Wyatt’s epic , the label was initially associated with members of Soft Machine and the wider Canterbury scene, but over the last 20 years it’s matured into an outward-looking