Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle: Perils from the Sea - Are you stressed? Is this work-a-day life getting you down or making you feel weary? Do you feel like you just need to sit in a dark room and stare off into space? Then Perils of the Sea is for you. Perils of the Sea is the collaboration between Mark Kozelek, best known from his work in Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters , and Jimmy Lavalle, better known as The Album Leaf . The result [...]
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by Andrew Sacher Sun Kil Moon & The Album Leaf Slowcore mastermind Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon) and ambient artist Jimmy LaVelle (The Album Leaf) teamed up for a collaborative album, Perils From The Sea , which came out on Mark's Caldo Verde Records last week (4/30). It's as beautiful a collaboration as it sounds like it would be, with Mark's descriptive lyrics taking their usual forefront, but this time over minimal beats and [...]
Perils From the Sea comes about five years too late. I make this assertion for a pair of reasons. Perils is a collaborative album, one that splits the difference between Sun Kil Moon' s Mark Kozelek and the Album Leaf' s Jimmy Lavalle so neatly in half it may have been made on perforated paper. It seems about five years too late firstly because it's been about five years since those two names drew a crowd, unfair as that may be. And secondly, it seems five years too late because the sound the [...]
Those familiar with Sun Kil Moon and/or the Album Leaf could be forgiven for approaching the first official collaboration between Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle , with a certain amount of knowing expectation. The coupling of Kozelek’s world-weary musings and LaValle’s moody electronica seems such a natural fit on paper it’s a wonder it hasn’t happened before. Kozelek is a notoriously prickly figure, his misery so heightened it occasionally reaches parody. LaValle is less obviously troubled, though throwing both together seems unlikely to elicit life-affirming anthems. And yet, Perils from the Sea [...]
As JIMMY LAVALLE, multi-instrumentalist and head of THE ALBUM LEAF named MARK KOZELEK's music to be one of his major influences on various occasions, he might not have thought about collaborating with the former singer of legendary slowcore-institution RED HOUSE PAINTERS. And to be honest, a certain amount of scepticism felt appropriate indeed, when Perils The post Sun Kil Moon & The Album Leaf - Perils From The Sea appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
As I mentioned when it was first announced that Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon) and Jimmy LaValle (of the Album Leaf) had joined forces to work on a new album: Kozelek has scaled back his musical operations considerably over the last decade or so. He's built one of modern music's richest catalogs dating back to 1992 - when his first album with Red House Painters was released - but since starting Sun Kil Moon in 2002, his live performances have been almost exclusively solo affairs (not counting his wonderful performance on Fallon [...]
Words by Tom Johnson There are fewer more evocative instruments than the vocal chords of Mark Kozelek . As the voice of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters , his deep, worn and foggy croon has transfixed me since I first discovered it, as many of us probably did, on his much-heralded Ghosts Of The Great Highway LP. Upon discovery, I'd never heard anything like that record before. Beautiful and bruised acoustic strums sat right next to fourteen-minute, droney, alt-folk...THINGS...that weave together ginormous clouds of instrumentation, while somehow still [...]
Mark Kozelek's new collection, Like Rats , finds the Sun Kil Moon frontman reimagining songs by a host of artists whom he's never before covered - Misfits, Godflesh, etc. - as well as a few whose work he's already put his stamp on. Among the latter group is '70s pop gods Yes, whose "Long Distance Runaround" was initially recorded as a somber acoustic lament for Red House Painters' 1995 LP, Ocean Beach (the song appeared only on the vinyl edition of the album); later, a robust electric version of that cover was included on the band's 1996 [...]
I’ll admit that I haven’t really listened to anything by Mark Kozelek before. Once at a party someone played Sun Kil Moon, and I remember thinking, “This might be really awesome in the right setting.” Since then I hadn’t given much thought to Kozelek’s output, until recently listening to his latest record, Like Rats. Upon pressing play I was immediately struck by the feeling that I had heard something like Kozelek’s voice before. His rasping, deep, and oftentimes double tracked vocals are reminiscent of Swedish folkie Jose Gonzalez, or even a less raw Bill Callahan. [...]
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Hello world! Lets get two things straight - one, I'm neurotic as hell, and two, I devour music like a fat kid loves cake, and I love me some cake! Now that we have that out of the way… The lost art of the Mixtape. Remember when you would spend literally hours recording songs to those TDK tapes and trying your goddamned best to not cut the song off before it was actually over? Not only the recording part, but just sequencing the tapes was an art form too. Lest we forget dousing them with black ink penned [...]
Watch Mark Kozelek perform "Heron Blue" and "Sunshine In Chicago" at the Wilmot Church in Fredericton, NB as part of the Shivering Songs festival. Both songs are on his new LP: Live at Phoenix Public House Melbourne Pitchfork rated and review here
What can't Mark Kozelek do with a song? After more than 20 years fronting legendary sad sacks Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon , Kozelek, through his stripped-down, honest songwriting approach, has demonstrated an uncanny ability to cut straight through the bullshit and get at the core of what's real. But while Kozelek's original material has earned him a reputation as one of the most unflinching songwriters of his generation, his ability to unlock the sentimental riches in other people's work further cements his ability to find the heart of a song. Like [...]
I've read and written a lot about Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters fame) in my life, and spent a good deal more of that time listening to his music - I'm not exactly an obsessive fan of the guy, but if you and I talked in detail about my one-way relationship with Mark Kozelek over the past 20 years, you'd probably walk away thinking I was an obsessive fan. Point being: My perspective is admittedly skewed, but the important thing is, I'm making it clear upfront so that when I ask the question [...]
Sun Kil Moon & The Album Leaf - Baby in Death Can I Rest Next to your Grave Extrait de Perils from the Sea (sortie le 30/04)
Stream another track from Sun Kil Moon and the Album Leaf from his debut collaborative LP, a very hypnotic 8-minute long track from Perils From The Sea entitled “Baby in Death Can I Rest Next To Your Grave". Perils From The Sea arrives on April 30th via Caldo Verde.
Sun Kil Moon and the Album Leaf shared another taste of their debut collaborative LP last week with this hypnotic 8-minute track from Perils From The Sea . With a title like "Baby in Death Can I Rest Next To Your Grave," you might expect a haunting cut, and Jimmy LaValle's spare instrumentation - recalling the more subtle parts of John Carpenter's Halloween theme a bit - provides such an ominous backdrop to Kozelek's dirgeful vocal. Unsettling yet lovely, this collaboration has proven to be more than the sum of its parts. Hear it above. Perils [...]
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