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Mark Edward Kozelek (born January 24, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and occasional actor. He is the vocalist and primary recording artist of the
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act
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and was a founding member of the
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band
Red House Painters Red House Painters were an American rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1988, before relocating to San Francisco, California in 1989. Originally formed by singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek and drummer Anthony Koutsos, the pair were soon joine ...
, with whom he recorded six studio albums from 1988 until 2001. Upon meeting drummer Anthony Koutsos in
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, the pair moved to
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and formed Red House Painters alongside guitarist Gorden Mack and bass guitarist Jerry Vessel. Signing with record label
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, the band released four studio albums. In 1996, Kozelek recorded the band's fifth studio album, ''
Songs for a Blue Guitar ''Songs for a Blue Guitar'' is the fifth studio album by Red House Painters, released on July 22, 1996 in the UK, and a day later in the US. It is effectively a Mark Kozelek solo album, since no other members of the band are listed in the liner ...
'', mostly alone. The release of the band's final studio album, ''
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'' (2001), was delayed for three years. In the interim, Kozelek recorded both an album and an EP of
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cover songs. Reconvening with Koutsos and Vessel, the trio continued performing under the new name of Sun Kil Moon, releasing their debut album, ''
Ghosts of the Great Highway ''Ghosts of the Great Highway'' is the debut studio album by San Francisco quartet Sun Kil Moon, led by Red House Painters' founder Mark Kozelek, who composed all of the lyrics and music on this album. The other members are Anthony Koutsos (form ...
'', in 2003. Inspired by classical guitar music, Kozelek recorded Sun Kil Moon's fourth studio album, '' Admiral Fell Promises'' (2010), as a solo act and continued to record mostly alone on its follow-up, '' Among the Leaves'' (2012), and later '' Perils from the Sea'' and '' Mark Kozelek & Desertshore'', both released in 2013. In 2014, Sun Kil Moon's sixth studio album, '' Benji'', was released to widespread critical acclaim, and increased exposure with its follow-up, 2015's ''
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'', featuring lengthy compositions and
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lyrics. Across his work in Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters, and his own solo material, Kozelek has released 31 studio albums, with his most recent being '' All the Best, Isaac Hayes'' (2020). A number of commentators have described Kozelek as one of the greatest songwriters of his generation.


Musical career


Early years, Red House Painters, and solo releases

Kozelek was born on January 24, 1967 in
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. In his teenage years, he led a band named God Forbid. Upon relocating to
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, Georgia, he met drummer Anthony Koutsos. After the pair moved once again to
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,
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,
Red House Painters Red House Painters were an American rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1988, before relocating to San Francisco, California in 1989. Originally formed by singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek and drummer Anthony Koutsos, the pair were soon joine ...
formed with the addition of guitarist Gorden Mack and bassist Jerry Vessel. From 1992 to 1996, Red House Painters released a series of acclaimed albums, showcasing Kozelek's intense, highly autobiographical songs. However, Kozelek's parting with the record label
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, followed by a major label merger which left Red House Painters' 1998 album ''
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'' on the shelf, proved highly frustrating and stifled the group's momentum. In 2000, he released the solo EP '' Rock 'n' Roll Singer'', which featured three original songs as well as covers of
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's "Around and Around" and three
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songs ("Rock 'n' Roll Singer," "Bad Boy Boogie," and "You Ain't Got a Hold on Me"). Two of the AC/DC cover versions on ''Rock 'n' Roll Singer'' were radical re-arrangements of the originals which removed the
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-penned lyrics from their hard rock context and placed them into gentle, acoustic "folk ballad" settings. Kozelek expanded on this idea in 2001, releasing a full-length album composed solely of AC/DC covers titled '' What's Next to the Moon''.


Sun Kil Moon, solo releases, and guest appearances

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debuted with ''
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'' in 2003, and also features former RHP members Jerry Vessel and Anthony Koutsos as well as new collaborators Geoff Stanfield (formerly of
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) and Tim Mooney of
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. Their follow-up effort appeared in 2005 on Kozelek's newly formed label,
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. Titled '' Tiny Cities'', the album is made up entirely of covers of songs by
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. Once again, Kozelek's cover versions varied greatly from the originals. In a February 2014 interview with Seattle's ''The Stranger'', Kozelek commented that he's "never heard from Modest Mouse" as to what they think of the record. In 2006, Kozelek was invited by the Toronto
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label
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to exclusively contribute to their '' See You on the Moon! Songs for Kids of All Ages'' compilation with his original song "Leo and Luna". Then in November 2006, Kozelek released a live album titled '' Little Drummer Boy Live''. Kozelek returned in 2008 with the release of Sun Kil Moon's third album ''
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''. The album features 11 brand new recordings, including guest vocal contributions by
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, Will Oldham and Eric Pollard. The release of the new album also brought the re-issue of ''Nights of Passed Over'', a 256-page, hard-cover book of all the lyrics to Kozelek's solo songs, Red House Painters' songs, and Sun Kil Moon's songs. It also features setlists, handwritten lyrics, and a preface by Kozelek himself. The original edition of this book was released in 2002 in
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, and featured all the lyrics up to that point, printed in both English and Portuguese. The updated edition spans to his current Sun Kil Moon days, and the book also includes a 12-track bonus CD titled '' Nights LP'', featuring live and rare versions of songs dated 1996 to 2007. The edition is sold exclusively on his label's website and is limited to 2,500 copies. On December 9, 2008, Kozelek and Caldo Verde Records issued '' The Finally LP'', a CD collection of 10 unreleased tracks, including covers of songs by
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,
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,
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, and
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among others, as well as two previously unreleased instrumentals. Two newly recorded live albums, '' Find Me, Ruben Olivares: Live in Spain'' and '' Lost Verses Live'', followed in spring 2009. On April 23, 2010, the release of Sun Kil Moon's fourth album, '' Admiral Fell Promises'', was announced. The album was released on July 13, 2010. A documentary film titled ''Mark Kozelek: On Tour'' was released via Caldo Verde Records on August 16, 2011. The movie was filmed during portions Mark Kozelek's European/North American tours of 2010 and early 2011. Sun Kil Moon's fifth album, '' Among the Leaves'', was released on Caldo Verde Records on May 29, 2012. Kozelek also contributed as a vocalist and bass player to
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, a group featuring
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guitarist Phil Carney, classically trained pianist Chris Connolly, and more recently Sun Kil Moon drummer Mike Stevens. His first collaboration with Desertshore came on the group's second studio album, ''Drawing Of Threes'' (released November 22, 2011,
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). Kozelek appeared in 6 out of 10 tracks as a vocalist and bass player. He played a more major role in the third studio album titled '' Mark Kozelek & Desertshore'' (released August 20, 2013, Caldo Verde Records), where he is featured as vocalist and bassist on all 10 tracks. In the same year, Kozelek released '' Perils From the Sea'', a collaboration album with multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle of
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, and covers album '' Like Rats''. In 2014, Sun Kil Moon released '' Benji'' to wide acclaim, garnering a score of 85 from the critical rating aggregate website,
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. ''No Ripcord'' calls it Kozelek's "most intimate work yet" and
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of ''
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'' added, it "might well be this difficult artist's most direct work." Soundblab rated it the best album of 2014, stating "When I remember 2014 in music, there will be Sun Kil Moon's ''Benji'' and there will be everything else." Several publications praised Kozelek's songwriting skills and highlighted ''Benji'' as his best work to date. On September 5, 2014, during a Sun Kil Moon performance at
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in
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, Kozelek called the noisy crowd "fucking hillbillies" and told them to "shut the fuck up" or else he would leave. He traded insults with the crowd before saying that his previous comments were meant as a joke. Allison Hussey of ''
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'' first reported the incident, and linked to audio of Kozelek berating the audience. On September 9, 2014, Kozelek's label Caldo Verde began selling t-shirts with "All You Fuckin' Hillbillies Shut The Fuck Up" printed on the front. On September 14, 2014, Sun Kil Moon performed at the Ottawa Folk Festival in
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, Canada, and their set overlapped with that of American rock band The War on Drugs. Kozelek complained of noise from The War on Drugs' set bleeding over to his stage and told the audience, "I hate that beer commercial lead-guitar shit". He introduced his next song as being titled "The War on Drugs Can Suck My Fucking Dick". On October 6, 2014, Sun Kil Moon released a song about the incident, "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock". The War on Drugs' lead singer
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responded by calling Kozelek a "douche", and Kozelek released a second song about the feud titled "Adam Granofsky Blues". Sun Kil Moon's sixth album of original material, ''Universal Themes'', was released on June 2, 2015. The album again featured drummer
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, who previously played drums on ''Benji'' and then released an album in 2017 '' Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood''. Kozelek toured Europe, the United States, and South America in support of the album in 2017 and 2018. On May 11, 2018, Kozelek released an eponymously titled double CD album, which "was recorded in San Francisco hotels and studios between May 2017 and January 2018." In 2016, Kozelek released a collaborative studio album with Jesu, titled '' Jesu/Sun Kil Moon''. In August 2022, he announced two concerts in Hungary and Slovenia after an almost two-year absence from live performance.


Acting

Kozelek has also acted. Friend and director
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cast him in his film ''
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'' (2000) as Larry Fellows (the bass player in Stillwater) and in ''
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'' (2001) as a clubgoer who mocks
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's character. In 2005, he appeared in
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's film ''
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'', playing a musician who befriends and mentors
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's character. Kozelek also performed "Lily and Parrots" (a Sun Kil Moon song) live in the film. Kozelek appears as himself, and contributed to the soundtrack to
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's 2015 film, ''
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''.


Allegations by ''Pitchfork''

In August 2020, in an article published by ''
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'', Kozelek was alleged to have engaged in sexual misconduct with a woman named Sarah Golden, as well as two other unidentified women. On August 17, Kozelek denied the allegations against him and stated that he has retained a law firm to "investigate and pursue as necessary any claims against anyone participating to defame me". On March 25, 2021, ''Pitchfork'' published another article on seven more women who accused Kozelek of sexual misconduct. Several of these women alleged that, in separate incidents, Kozelek brought them back to a hotel room, promising them that the encounter would not be sexual, before later emerging from the bathroom unclothed or in underwear and then masturbating. He then allegedly groped some of these women despite repeated requests to stop, then repeatedly pressured them to have sexual intercourse with him until they either left or had sex with him. ''Pitchfork'' reported that Kozelek denied the allegations in a letter issued to them by his attorney.


Discography


Solo

Studio albums * '' What's Next to the Moon'' (2001) * '' Like Rats'' (2013) * '' Perils from the Sea'' (2013) (with Jimmy LaValle) * '' Mark Kozelek & Desertshore'' (2013) (with Desertshore) * '' Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols'' (2014) * '' Dreams of Childhood'' (2015) (with Nicolás Pauls) * ''Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites'' (2016) * '' Yellow Kitchen'' (2017) (with Sean Yeaton) * ''Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White'' (2017) (with Ben Boye and Jim White) * ''Mark Kozelek'' (2018) * ''Joey Always Smiled'' (2019) (with
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)
* ''Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White 2'' (2020) (with Ben Boye and Jim White) * '' All the Best, Isaac Hayes'' (2020) EPs * '' Rock 'n' Roll Singer'' (2000) * ''
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'' (2015) * ''Night Talks'' (2017) * ''Lovin' You'' (2021) Compilations * ''If You Want Blood'' (2001) * ''Nights LP'' (2008) * '' The Finally LP'' (2008) Live albums * ''White Christmas Live'' (2001) * ''Little Drummer Boy Live'' (2006) * ''White Christmas and Little Drummer Boy Live'' (2007) * '' 7 Songs Belfast'' (2008) * '' Find Me, Ruben Olivares: Live in Spain'' (2009) * '' Lost Verses Live'' (2009) * ''Live at Union Chapel & Södra Teatern'' (2011) * ''Live at Lincoln Hall'' (2012) * ''On Tour: A Documentary – The Soundtrack'' (2012) * ''Live in Copenhagen'' (2012) * '' Live at Phoenix Public House Melbourne'' (2013) * ''Live at Mao Livehouse Shanghai & Beijing'' (2013) * '' Live at Palladium: Malmö'' (2013) * ''Live at Victoria Teatern and Stenhammarsalen'' (2014) * '' Live at Biko'' (2014) * ''The Kids – Live in London'' (2014)


Red House Painters

*'' Down Colorful Hill'' (1992) *''
Red House Painters Red House Painters were an American rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1988, before relocating to San Francisco, California in 1989. Originally formed by singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek and drummer Anthony Koutsos, the pair were soon joine ...
'' aka ''Rollercoaster'' (1993) *''
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'' aka ''Bridge'' (1993) *'' Ocean Beach'' (1995) *''
Songs for a Blue Guitar ''Songs for a Blue Guitar'' is the fifth studio album by Red House Painters, released on July 22, 1996 in the UK, and a day later in the US. It is effectively a Mark Kozelek solo album, since no other members of the band are listed in the liner ...
'' (1996) *''
Old Ramon ''Old Ramon'' is the sixth and final studio album by American indie rock band Red House Painters, released on April 10, 2001 on Sub Pop. Originally completed in 1998, band leader Mark Kozelek had to wait until 2001 to release the album. The band ...
'' (2001)


Sun Kil Moon

* ''
Ghosts of the Great Highway ''Ghosts of the Great Highway'' is the debut studio album by San Francisco quartet Sun Kil Moon, led by Red House Painters' founder Mark Kozelek, who composed all of the lyrics and music on this album. The other members are Anthony Koutsos (form ...
'' (2003) * '' Tiny Cities'' (2005) * ''
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'' (2008) * '' Admiral Fell Promises'' (2010) * '' Among the Leaves'' (2012) * '' Perils from the Sea'' (2013) (with
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) * '' Benji'' (2014) * ''
Universal Themes ''Universal Themes'' is the seventh studio album by American indie folk act Sun Kil Moon, released on June 2, 2015, on Caldo Verde Records. The album was preceded by the singles, "The Possum", "Garden of Lavender" and "Ali/Spinks 2", and featur ...
'' (2015) * '' Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood'' (2017) * '' This Is My Dinner'' (2018) * '' I Also Want to Die in New Orleans'' (2019) * ''Welcome to Sparks, Nevada'' (2020) * ''Lunch in the Park'' (2021) * ''Quiet Beach House Nights'' (2023) * ''All the Artists'' (2025)


References


External links


Mark Kozelek website
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