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Sun Kil Moon, the latest project by Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek, will release a new album on November 1st on Kozelek's own Caldo Verde Records in the U.S. and on Rough Trade Records for the rest of the world. The album, Tiny Cities, finds Kozelek covering 11 songs by Modest Mouse. As anyone who has followed Mark's career would expect, the songs are vastly reworked, and offer listeners a new look at the unorthodox songwriting of Isaac Brock.
Recorded at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco in early 2005, Tiny Cities is the second Sun Kil Moon release. The 2003 debut Ghosts of the Great Highway was one of Kozelek's greatest commercial and critical successes, lauded by Rolling Stone as "elegant beauty." For Tiny Cities, Sun Kil Moon reunites for more of the slow, gorgeous musicianship fans have come to expect.
Mark Kozelek first began performing Modest Mouse songs after seeing a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in 2003. Intrigued with Brock's lyrics and vocal delivery, Kozelek first added a few of Brock's songs to his live sets, and then, eventually took them to the studio for what became this full-length recording.
Not new to the world of covers, Kozelek has reinterpreted, recorded and performed materials by a diverse array of artists including AC/DC, Kiss, John Denver, Simon & Garfunkel and more. In addition to this new recording, Kozelek recently recorded Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman" for the Songs from the Brown Hotel charity compilation EP, organized by Cameron Crowe to coincide with his new film Elizabethtown. Kozelek also appears in the upcoming Steve Martin produced Shopgirl. In September, he joins Alan Sparhawk's Retribution Gospel Choir as guest guitarist for several U.S. tour dates.
Recorded at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco in early 2005, Tiny Cities is the second Sun Kil Moon release. The 2003 debut Ghosts of the Great Highway was one of Kozelek's greatest commercial and critical successes, lauded by Rolling Stone as "elegant beauty." For Tiny Cities, Sun Kil Moon reunites for more of the slow, gorgeous musicianship fans have come to expect.
Mark Kozelek first began performing Modest Mouse songs after seeing a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in 2003. Intrigued with Brock's lyrics and vocal delivery, Kozelek first added a few of Brock's songs to his live sets, and then, eventually took them to the studio for what became this full-length recording.
Not new to the world of covers, Kozelek has reinterpreted, recorded and performed materials by a diverse array of artists including AC/DC, Kiss, John Denver, Simon & Garfunkel and more. In addition to this new recording, Kozelek recently recorded Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman" for the Songs from the Brown Hotel charity compilation EP, organized by Cameron Crowe to coincide with his new film Elizabethtown. Kozelek also appears in the upcoming Steve Martin produced Shopgirl. In September, he joins Alan Sparhawk's Retribution Gospel Choir as guest guitarist for several U.S. tour dates.
