sun kil moon

sun kil moon is another band i discovered via frank cervantez's mix cd. the band's name comes from a korean boxer, as does "duk koo kim," the song i dug the most on frank's cd. that song's namesake was killed in the ring in november 1982, while i was stationed in korea, in a bout with the american boxer ray mancini. i remember them telling us when it happened not to bring up the topic if we were traveling off-base.

the band sun kil moon is the current project of guitarist-singer-songwriter mark kozelek, whose previous band the red house painters was much beloved by goodwin's evil dictator daniel gomez. their music has a somber, morose neil young-like quality that i find quite appealing. their 2003 rec ghosts of the great highway was highly acclaimed. they gots a new one called april that's due on april fool's day on kozelek's caldo verde label.