Mark Kozelek

About Mark Kozelek

Who is it?: Soundtrack, Actor, Composer
Birth Day: January 24, 1967
Birth Place:  Massillon, Ohio, United States
Birth name: Mark Edward Kozelek
Origin: Massillon, Ohio, United States
Genres: Folk rock slowcore indie rock spoken word experimental
Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter musician record producer record label owner
Instruments: Vocals guitar piano
Years active: 1989–present
Labels: Caldo Verde
Associated acts: Red House Painters Sun Kil Moon Jimmy LaValle Desertshore Jesu God Forbid
Website: www.sunkilmoon.com

Mark Kozelek

Mark Kozelek was born on January 24, 1967 in  Massillon, Ohio, United States, is Soundtrack, Actor, Composer. Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys of Blood is the new release by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon. Released February 24, 2017 on Caldo Verde Records/Rough Trade, the double album was recorded in 2016 with drummer Steve Shelley. Sun Kil Moon will support the album this year with tours in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and The USA.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. The album includes favorite songs of Mark's friends and loved ones. 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 throughout 2016.Universal Themes was the 7th full length Sun Kil Moon Album, released in 2015. The album received some of Kozelek's best reviews including a 9 out of 10 in Uncut Magazine and an A- at Consequence Of Sound. In 2015 Mark also released a free EP entitled Down In The Willow Garden as well as a spoken word album entitled Dreams Of Childhood with Argentine actor Nicolas Pauls. Kozelek's music is also featured extensively in the latest Paulo Sorrentino film Youth.In late 2015 Caldo Verde Records released Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols.Benji was the sixth full length record by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon. The album was released February 11, 2014 and features guest musicians Steve Shelley, Will Oldham and Owen Ashworth. On August 20 of 2013, Mark Kozelek's Caldo Verde Records released Mark Kozelek & Desertshore, the third record from Mark Kozelek and Phil Carney's side project, Desertshore. 2013 also saw the release of Mark Kozelek, Like Rats, featuring an eclectic mix of covers ranging from Sonny and Cher to Bad Brains. At the same time Mark also released 2 live albums and the Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle collaboration, Perils From The Sea. Both Mark Kozelek & Desertshore and Perils From The Sea made Uncut's top 100 best albums of the year. In 2012, Mark Kozelek released an 18 track album under his Sun Kil Moon moniker, entitled Among The Leaves. Mark toured solo in support of the album and made his debit TV appearance on Fallon performing with The Roots.In August of 2011, the film Mark Kozelek: On Tour was released via Caldo Verde Records. The film follows Mark on two different tours in support of the Sun Kil Moon release, Admiral Fell Promises, released in 2010. The album was played entirely by Mark Kozelek on nylon string guitar and includes 10 original songs. A limited EP entitled I'll Be There coincided with the release. The 4 song EP includes 1 out-take and 3 covers, including the Jackson's 'I'll Be There.' On November 22, 2011, Desertshore's second album was released. Mark Kozelek contributed vocals to 6 of the album's 10 tracks.In May of 2009 Caldo Verde released Mark Kozelek: Lost Verses - Live. The album was recorded in intimate, seated venues throughout the US and Europe in 2007 and 2008. This 14 song 'best of' collection features Red House Painters classic 'Katy Song' as well as several picks from the Sun Kil Moon catalog including 'Carry Me Ohio', 'Lucky Man,' and 'Lost Verses.'A 13 song live CD entitled Mark Kozelek: Live in Spain was released simultaneously as a free bonus CD.Mark Kozelek's third album with Sun Kil Moon: April, was released through Caldo Verde on April 1, 2008.A hardback edition of Nights of Passed Over, a collection of Mark's lyrics originally published in a limited edition in Portugal in 2002, was also released in 2008. The book includes a preface by Mark and a 12-song rarities CD entitled Nights LP. The book is out of print.In December of 2008, Mark released The Finally LP, a rarities collection featuring covers of Husker Du, Stephen Sondheim, Kath Bloom, Low, and others.Mark's music has been licensed to numerous television shows including The O.C., The Big C, Revenge, Brothers and Sisters, Friday Night Lights, Sons of Anarchy, and Roadies, as well as several films including Tarnation, Against The Current, The Elephant In The Living room,, Excess Baggage, Vanilla Sky, and The Fault In Our Stars. Mark scored original music for the films Farewell Bender, Last Ball, and Lorena Ochoa: El Camino a la Cima.In 2005, Mark started his own label, Caldo Verde Records. 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.Between 1992 and 1999 Mark released six full length studio albums with Red House Painters.Little Drummer Boy - Live, released on November 28, 2006, contains live recordings from various shows in Europe and North America. The double CD covers a broad range of Mark Kozelek material, including Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon and personalized covers of Modest Mouse, The Cars and AC/DC.In 2007, Drummer Boy was released on vinyl as White Christmas & Little Drummer Boy Live as a 4 LP set. The album was coupled with Mark's 2001 release White Christmas Live, recorded in Scandinavia.On January 23, 2007, Caldo Verde Records re-released the first Sun Kil Moon album Ghosts of the Great Highway with reworked packaging and a six song bonus CD featuring two versions of Leonard Bernstein's 'Somewhere', alternate versions of 'Carry Me Ohio' and 'Salvador Sanchez', a radio performance of 'Gentle Moon' recorded in Portugal and the previously unreleased instrumental, 'Arrival', recorded for the movie The Girl Next Door. Originally released on November 3, 2003, Ghosts of the Great Highway received superlative reviews, moved quickly to the #1 on college radio and has become one of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek's most loved and best-selling albums of his 14 year career. Ghosts tracks 'Carry Me Ohio' and 'Lily and Parrots' were featured in the Steve Martin film Shopgirl, in which Mark plays the role of a lead singer in a fictitious rock band. Mark also contributed several tracks to several compilations. His version of Will Oldham's 'New Partner' is included on a CD entitled I Am A Cold Rock, I Am Dull Grass. Sun Kil Moon's version of Neil Diamond's 'Kentucky Woman' is featured on Songs from the Brown Hotel which also features Elvis Presley and Nancy Wilson, the original composition 'Leo and Luna' appears on a Canadian Compilation from Paperbag Records, and an exclusive, live version of 'Have You Forgotten' appears on the soundtrack to the HBO documentary film The Trials of Darryl Hunt.Other highlights include producing Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver; Retrospective, a two-CD collection featuring various rarities and live tracks alongside favorite RHP material; and appearing as an actor in Cameron Crowe's critically acclaimed Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky as well as appearing as himself in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth.
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Popular As Mark Kozelek
Occupation Soundtrack
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born January 24, 1967 ( Massillon, Ohio, United States)
Birthday January 24
Town/City  Massillon, Ohio, United States
Nationality United States

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Mark Kozelek’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Mark Kozelek was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.

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"Their backgrounds are extremely harsh and they work very hard to move up in their careers. I was in attendance at the Manny Pacquiao-Agapito Sanchez fight in San Francisco in 2001. When I heard Sanchez was murdered shortly after, it had a profound effect on me. It hurts when anyone dies young, but when you see the backgrounds of these guys and the path they've taken to try to find some light in their lives, it hurts to see them die young."

Biography/Timeline

1992

Kozelek was born and raised in Massillon, Ohio. In his teenage years, he led a band named God Forbid. Upon relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, he met Drummer Anthony Koutsos. After the pair moved once again to San Francisco, California, Red House Painters 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.

1996

Born and raised in Massillon, Ohio, Kozelek developed an interest in music as a child. Upon meeting Drummer Anthony Koutsos in Atlanta, Georgia, the pair moved to San Francisco, California and formed Red House Painters alongside Guitarist Gorden Mack and bass Guitarist Jerry Vessel. Signing with record label 4AD, the band released four studio albums to critical acclaim. In 1996, Kozelek recorded the band's fifth studio album, Songs for a Blue Guitar, mostly alone. The release of the band's final studio album, Old Ramon (2001), was delayed for three years. In the interim, Kozelek recorded both an album and an EP of AC/DC cover songs.

1998

However, Kozelek's parting with the record label 4AD, followed by a major label merger which left Red House Painters' 1998 album Old Ramon on the shelf, proved highly frustrating and stifled the group's momentum. Kozelek opted to occupy himself with a series of idiosyncratic solo recordings as Red House Painters dissolved.

1999

Kozelek has also dabbled in acting. Friend and Director Cameron Crowe cast him in his film Almost Famous (1999) as Larry Fellows (the bass player in Stillwater) and in Vanilla Sky (2001). In 2005, he appeared in Steve Martin's film Shopgirl, playing a musician who befriends and mentors Jason Schwartzman's character. Kozelek also performed "Lily and Parrots" (a Sun Kil Moon song) live in the film.

2000

In 2000, he released the solo EP Rock 'n' Roll Singer, which featured three original songs as well as covers of John Denver's "Around and Around" and three AC/DC 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 Bon Scott-penned lyrics from their hard rock context and placed them into gentle, acoustic "folk ballad" settings.

2001

A limited edition live recording, White Christmas Live, was released by the Sub Pop label in late 2001. In addition to his solo material, it featured several Red House Painters songs done in a stripped-down, acoustic guitar-and-vocals style, and one a cappella rendition. An early version of his current project Sun Kil Moon's "Lily and Parrots" is tacked onto the end as an uncredited bonus track. It also features one previously unreleased song, "Admiral Fell Promises".

2002

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 Portugal, 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 link and is limited to 2,500 copies.

2003

Sun Kil Moon debuted with Ghosts of the Great Highway in 2003, and also features former RHP members Jerry Vessel and Anthony Koutsos as well as new collaborators Geoff Stanfield (formerly of Black Lab) and Tim Mooney of American Music Club. Their follow-up effort appeared in 2005 on Kozelek's newly formed label, Caldo Verde Records. Titled Tiny Cities, the album is made up entirely of covers of songs by Modest Mouse. 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.

2006

In 2006, Kozelek was invited by Toronto indie rock label Paper Bag Records 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. On the album's two discs, he plays songs from his solo career, covers, and material from the catalogs of both Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon.

2008

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 Stephen Sondheim, Will Oldham, Hüsker Dü, and Low 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.

2010

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.

2011

Kozelek also contributed as a vocalist and bass player to Desertshore, a group featuring Red House Painters 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, Caldo Verde Records). 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 The Album Leaf, and covers album Like Rats.

2012

Sun Kil Moon's fifth album, Among the Leaves, was released on Caldo Verde Records on May 29, 2012. On the whole its 17 tracks display by far the most lighthearted approach to songwriting Kozelek has ever taken, though the songs remain autobiographical and poignant.

2014

In 2014, Sun Kil Moon released Benji to wide acclaim, including a score of 9.2 from Pitchfork and an 85 from the critical rating aggregate website, Metacritic. No Ripcord calls it Kozelek's "most intimate work yet" and Kitty Empire of Observer added, it "might well be this difficult artist's most direct work."

2015

Kozelek appears as himself, and contributed to the Soundtrack to Paolo Sorrentino's 2015 film, Youth. His 2015 Sun Kil Moon album, Universal Themes, often references his experiences while filming Youth.

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