To celebrate 15th years of MoonJune Records and to celebrate the legacy of Alberto Bino Bonomi, MoonJune Records is offering a Free download of Duty Free Area’s (D.F.A.) celebrated live album “Work In Progress Live”. This special offer is valid until Sunday, June 26. “Despite the band’s semi-legendary status in the progressive rock circuits, many fans of the genre are still unaware of this truly fantastic band, and of the great talent of Alberto Bonomi,” says Leonardo Pavkovic, MoonJune Records.
Leonardo indicates that MoonJune Records started on June 23rd 2001, on the first day of the third annual progressive rock festival NEARFest, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; the first public appearance as a new record label and one of the festival’s vendors. Exactly one year before, at the second annual NEARFest,Leonardo discovered what became one of his favorite acts, and one of the label’s most celebrated bands, the progressive rock fusion quartet from Verona (Italy), Duty Free Area, known as D.F.A.
After the release of the studio album 4th in 2008, another of the great and critically acclaimed MoonJune’s albums in the label’s 15 years history, a tragic event marked the end of the band’s career. Alberto Bonomi, D.F.A.’s keyboardist, and with the drummer Alberto De Grandis, the band’s main composer, died in a car accident on Sunday, June 28th, 2011, at the age of 48.