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Sun Kil Moon is the project of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek
Mark Kozelek

Mark Kozelek is an United States singer/songwriter and frontman of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters....
, best known for his previous band, Red House Painters
Red House Painters

Red House Painters were an alternative rock group formed in 1989 in San Francisco by singer/songwriter Mark Kozelek. They, along with American Music Club, are considered the linchpins of the slowcore movement in alternative rock....
. Sun Kil Moon sees Kozelek undertake the writing, composing, singing and guitar playing accompanied by Tim Mooney and Anthony Koutsos on drums, and Geoff Stanfield on bass.

The band is named after Korean
Korean people

The Korean people are an ethnic group originating in East Asia. Most Koreans speak the Korean language....
 bantamweight
Bantamweight

The term bantamweight usually refers to a boxing weight classes in boxing or boxers who human weight between 112 and 118 pound . Wrestling also has similar wrestling weight classes including bantamweight....
 boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 Sung-Kil Moon
Sung-Kil Moon

Sung-Kil Moon is a former two-division world champion boxer from South Korea. His name is also spelled as Mun Seong-Gil....
.

Sun Kil Moon's debut album, Ghosts of the Great Highway
Ghosts of the Great Highway

Ghosts of the Great Highway is the 2003 debut 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....
, first released in 2003 by Jetset Records
Jetset Records

Jetset Records was a Manhattan-based indie rock record label. The label has released a variety of independent bands, including Firewater, Sun Kil Moon and Mogwai....
, contains several songs concerned with true-life stories of deceased boxers, such as featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez
Salvador Sánchez

Salvador S?nchez Narvaez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de M?xico....
, flyweight Pancho Villa, and also Duk Koo Kim
Duk Koo Kim

Duk-Koo Kim was a South Korean boxing who died following a boxing match against Ray Mancini....
.

Ghosts of the Great Highway was re-issued as a double CD on February 6, 2007 on Kozelek's own label, Caldo Verde
Caldo verde

Caldo verde is a popular soup of Portuguese cuisine and Brazilian cuisine cuisine....
.






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Sun Kil Moon is the project of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek
Mark Kozelek

Mark Kozelek is an United States singer/songwriter and frontman of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters....
, best known for his previous band, Red House Painters
Red House Painters

Red House Painters were an alternative rock group formed in 1989 in San Francisco by singer/songwriter Mark Kozelek. They, along with American Music Club, are considered the linchpins of the slowcore movement in alternative rock....
. Sun Kil Moon sees Kozelek undertake the writing, composing, singing and guitar playing accompanied by Tim Mooney and Anthony Koutsos on drums, and Geoff Stanfield on bass.

The band is named after Korean
Korean people

The Korean people are an ethnic group originating in East Asia. Most Koreans speak the Korean language....
 bantamweight
Bantamweight

The term bantamweight usually refers to a boxing weight classes in boxing or boxers who human weight between 112 and 118 pound . Wrestling also has similar wrestling weight classes including bantamweight....
 boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 Sung-Kil Moon
Sung-Kil Moon

Sung-Kil Moon is a former two-division world champion boxer from South Korea. His name is also spelled as Mun Seong-Gil....
.

Sun Kil Moon's debut album, Ghosts of the Great Highway
Ghosts of the Great Highway

Ghosts of the Great Highway is the 2003 debut 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....
, first released in 2003 by Jetset Records
Jetset Records

Jetset Records was a Manhattan-based indie rock record label. The label has released a variety of independent bands, including Firewater, Sun Kil Moon and Mogwai....
, contains several songs concerned with true-life stories of deceased boxers, such as featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez
Salvador Sánchez

Salvador S?nchez Narvaez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de M?xico....
, flyweight Pancho Villa, and also Duk Koo Kim
Duk Koo Kim

Duk-Koo Kim was a South Korean boxing who died following a boxing match against Ray Mancini....
.

Ghosts of the Great Highway was re-issued as a double CD on February 6, 2007 on Kozelek's own label, Caldo Verde
Caldo verde

Caldo verde is a popular soup of Portuguese cuisine and Brazilian cuisine cuisine....
. The second disc features six bonus tracks, including the cover of "Somewhere" written by Leonard Bernstein.

The band's follow-up Tiny Cities
Tiny Cities

Tiny Cities is the second album by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon, released November 1, 2005. It features the same lineup from their debut release, Ghosts of the Great Highway. This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005 ....
 was released on November 1, 2005 on Kozelek's Caldo Verde Records
Caldo Verde Records

Caldo Verde Records is a San Francisco-based indie rock and folk music record label founded by Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek in 2005....
. The album covers eleven songs by the indie/alternative group Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock , drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy....
.

Sun Kil Moon's third studio album is called April and was released April 1, 2008. It features guest vocals from Will Oldham
Will Oldham

Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy , is an United States singer, songwriter, and actor. Prior to adopting his current moniker, he performed and recorded under various permutations of the Palace name, including Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music ....
 and Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard

Benjamin Gibbard is an United States musician who has formed several Indie bands. He is most notable as the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, although also known for his project ?All-Time Quarterback!....
.

Discography

  • Ghosts of the Great Highway
    Ghosts of the Great Highway

    Ghosts of the Great Highway is the 2003 debut 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....
     (November 4, 2003)
  • Tiny Cities
    Tiny Cities

    Tiny Cities is the second album by Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon, released November 1, 2005. It features the same lineup from their debut release, Ghosts of the Great Highway. This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005 ....
     (November 1, 2005)
  • Ghosts of the Great Highway
    Ghosts of the Great Highway

    Ghosts of the Great Highway is the 2003 debut 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....
     2CD re-issue (February 6, 2007)
  • April (April 1, 2008)


Soundtracks / Songs in Films or Television

  • "Kentucky Woman" (in Elizabethtown
    Elizabethtown (film)

    Elizabethtown is a 2005 in film United States film written and directed by Cameron Crowe starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Orlando Bloom plays a shoe designer visiting his father's hometown in Kentucky in the days following the father's death, and Kirsten Dunst plays a flight attendant....
    )
  • "The Arrival" (in The Girl Next Door)
  • "Carry Me Ohio" and "Lily And Parrots" (in Shopgirl
    Shopgirl

    Shopgirl is a 2005 in film United States romance film drama film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by Steve Martin is based on his bestselling Shopgirl ....
    )
  • "Gentle Moon" (in Friday Night Lights
    Friday Night Lights (TV series)

    Friday Night Lights is an American Serial drama television program adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream and Friday Night Lights of the same name....
    )
  • "Blue Heron" (in Crash season 1, episode "F-36, Sprint Left, T-4" during closing credits)


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