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Red House Painters was an alternative rock band from San Francisco, CA, United States, formed in 1989 by singer/songwriter Mark Kozelek. The band is described, along with Low and American Music Club, as one of the linchpins of the slowcore movement in alternative rock. Kozelek used this group primarily as a vehicle for his very personal and emotional songs of despair, pain and suffering. In 1994, they released an EP entitled Shock Me and in 1995, the introspective Ocean Beach, which saw Kozelek’s songs becoming more acoustic-based and folk influenced, and featured far less of the lengthy, dreamlike epics of the group’s first two albums. His lyrics also showed a considerable shift in tone, as he increasingly began to write about the power of memory and the significance of geography, a subject that would become an obsession in his subsequent recordings.
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Describes hearing Kozelek masturbating in his bed while she attempted to sleep in a separate cot each night. The original report from August 2020 detailed accusations from two women, Sarah Catherine Golden and “Andrea” (who requested a pseudonym), that outlined alleged nonconsensual behavior from Kozelek. Golden, a mental health specialist based in Los Angeles and a Sun Kil Moon fan, described meeting Kozelek on a flight from Madrid to Portugal during which he offered to put her on the guestlist for his show in Porto. After attending the show, Golden was invited by Kozelek to his hotel, where she said she assumed she’d be drinking in a group setting with him and his bandmates. But Kozelek is a master of covers, and makes the songs his own; plus, there are more than enough originals here to balance it out. Even accounting for the added years and maybe some Kozelek burnout, the four LPs in this boxset remain Red House Painters' most magical records, and some of the most beautiful works of Kozelek's career.
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The album picks up where "Sparks" left off, detailing his summer, fall and winter of 2020. All direct purchases through the Caldo Verde website will receive a FREE, limited 4 song Sun Kil Moon EP entitled I’ll Be There. The EP includes covers of Stereolab, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, and The Jackson 5.
be included on an all covers Mark Kozelek album due out this Spring.
On January 2016, Mark's collaboration with Justin Broadrick entitled Jesu/Sun Kil Moon was released via Caldo Verde/Rough Trade Records, to positive reviews. The band promoted the album with live shows in Europe, USA and Japan and will tour again in September and November of this year. On May 27, 2016, Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites was released through Caldo Verde Records. The album features guest singers Mimi Parker, Minnie Driver, Mike Patton, Will Oldham, and Rachel Goswell. Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys of Blood was released by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon on February 24, 2017.
Piano by Chris Connolly of Desertshore/Sun Kil Moon. Guest singers include Mike Patton,
(Pitchfork reviewed video of Laura onstage singing with Kozelek.) According to Laura, he asked her to have a drink after the show, and said he’d prefer his hotel over the local pub she suggested. She figured she’d be socializing in a group with his bandmates at the lobby bar, she says, but when they arrived, Kozelek brought her to his room alone. In early 1994, they released an EP entitled Shock Me, featuring two cover versions of an Ace Frehley-written KISS song. Founding guitarist Gorden Mack left shortly after the album's release, and he was replaced shortly thereafter by Phil Carney. An accuser named Claire met Kozelek in 2014, while she was attending the Newport Folk Festival in a professional capacity with access to the backstage area. They made plans to hang out at a nearby hotel later, and she agreed to meet him at the pool, hoping the public area would dissuade any sexual advances.
The album was coupled with Mark’s 2001 release White Christmas Live, recorded in Scandinavia. On October 11, 2019, Caldo Verde Records released the collaborative album Mark Kozelek and Petra Haden, Joey Always Smiled. Longtime friend and collaborator Alan Sparhawk interviewed Mark about the album for Talkhouse. Sun Ki Moon Welcome to Sparks, Nevada, was released January 7, 2021. The album is about Mark's life and times throughout the first half of 2020.
If you're someone who's been put off by his feuds and outbursts, put aside those reservations—these records deserve it. And, really, when you come back to them, even after all these years, that mystery somehow still remains. In fact, now and then I need to remind myself just who it is I'm listening to. Kozelek's lyrics are personal, and moving, but come cloaked in ellipses and metaphor rather than the tell-all logorrhea of Benji.
Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Seven More Women - Pitchfork
Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Seven More Women.
Posted: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Kozelek’s candour wasn’t the only reason that Benji met with more attention. His live banter has often been antagonistic, but last September, a cruel streak emerged. A week later, he actually released a song called War on Drugs Suck My Cock, in which he also attacked the “spoiled bitch rich kid blogger brat” female journalist who reported his “hillbilly” comments. In another song, Adam Granofsky Blues, Kozelek read and laughed at the War on Drugs frontman’s bewildered comments about the affair. In his teenage years, he led a band named God Forbid.[14] Upon relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, he met drummer Anthony Koutsos. Listening closely to these records now shines a light on the rest of Kozelek's career.
When reached by NPR, a representative responded that Kozelek was not available to comment on the allegations. In its piece, Pitchfork reported that it reached out to Kozelek and his representatives over a dozen times over a period of months seeking comment, and that none of its messages were returned. In spring 2019, a 25-year-old Sun Kil Moon fan, who remained anonymous for the article, reached out to Kozelek via email to thank him for his music. The two began an email and text exchange, and in October 2019 agreed to meet up in San Francisco for lunch. The woman’s boyfriend was uneasy about the planned meetup and made a post to Reddit’s Am I the Asshole forum, where users seek advice on whether they’re behaving inappropriately in a situation.
Once at the hotel, she recounted to the website, Kozelek got undressed and asked her to get into bed with him. According to Golden, when she declined he began masturbating, groped her and attempted to kiss her. Releases other than his own include Alan Sparhawk of Low’s self-titled Retribution Gospel Choir debut album, for which Mark worked as producer. Caldo Verde has also released albums by Jesu, Kath Bloom, and Advance Base. Sun Kil Moon's I Also Want To Die In New Orleans, was released March 1, 2019, on Caldo Verde Records.
Soon after that, she says, he got fully undressed, without any prompting from her. She says she expressed her discomfort and got up to leave, but he pleaded with her to stay the night, and she reluctantly agreed. He asked her if he could masturbate in front of her, and if she would have sex with him, she says. She told him no, she says, but he continued asking, seeming to feel entitled because she’d previously told him she admired his acting performance in the 2005 film Shopgirl. Pitchfork also reported a third allegation, from a woman musician who asked not to be named.
Still, she alleges, he was sexually aggressive in ways that violated her consent. Anjuli, who requested that her last name be withheld from this article, had dinner with Kozelek after introducing herself to him at a Sun Kil Moon show in San Francisco in 2014. (Pitchfork reviewed screenshots of texts about the dinner between her and Kozelek.) He offered to walk her back to her apartment, then asked to use her bathroom when she told him she was going inside, she says. He began grabbing at her, she claims, attempting to pull her toward him and place her hands on his body, continuing even as she protested multiple times that she was uncomfortable with the situation and wanted him to stop. When she told him she was calling him a cab, he asked her if he could masturbate on her bed, and she said no, but he got into her bed anyway, she claims.
The alleged incident took place in 2017, when she was 24 and Kozelek was 50. She first made contact with Kozelek at a concert the previous year, where she handed him a comic that one of his songs had inspired her to draw, with her email address attached. He thanked her via email and invited her to contact him if she ever wanted to attend a show in the future. When she saw a scheduled performance in her city—she requested that the location be obscured in this article—she took him up on the offer. Less than 10 minutes after they arrived at his room, he went to the bathroom with the door open, and emerged in only a T-shirt and underwear, Laura says.
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