Was linked in reality to the more resigned and anti-spectacular songwriters of Had been led by Catheads and had culminated with Style, initially influenced by the school of folk-rock from San Francisco that Kozelek was one of the greatest poets of the rock music in the '90s. His (Translated from the Italian by Troy Sherman) Ocean Beach (1995) brought even more life to the compositions, dispensing with the most austere elements of their slow acoustic chamber folk. Each song was a moment in time, an impressionistic watercolor. The demo-quality of those recordings contributed to the sense of philosophical melancholy, but Red House Painters (1993), also known as Rollercoaster, revealed a much lighter and brighter mood: rather than whining, Kozelek was contemplating the universe. Like with the music of Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley and Nick Drake, the effect was both subdued and majestic, a contradiction that became the quintessence of their art. San Francisco's Red House Painters, an acoustic quartet led by introverted poet Mark Kozelek, penned the depressed mantras of Down Colorful Hill (1992): shy guitars that played chords as if they were reciting rosaries, and moribund dirges that seemed to end before beginning but then lasted for eternity, created quietly unnerving atmospheres that blurred the border between sorrow and ecstasy. Sun Kil Moon: I Also Want To Die In New Orleans (Caldo Verde, 2019), 5/10 Sun Kil Moon: This Is My Dinner (Caldo Verde, 2018), 5/10 Sun Kil Moon: Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood (Caldo Verde, 2017), 4/10 Jesu/ Sun Kil Moon: 30 Seconds To The Decline Of Planet Earth (Caldo Verde, 2017), 5/10 Jesu/ Sun Kil Moon (Caldo Verde, 2016), 4/10 Sun Kil Moon: Universal Themes (Caldo Verde, 2015), 6.5/10 Mark Kozelek: Mark Kozelek & Desertshore (2013), 4.5/10 Mark Kozelek: Perils of the Sea (2013), 5.5/10 Sun Kil Moon: Among the Leaves (2012), 4.5/10 Sun Kil Moon: Admiral Fell Promises (2010), 5/10 Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts Of The Great Highway (2003), 6/10 Mark Kozelek: What's Next To The Moon, 4/10 ( Copyright © 1999-2019 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use) Red House Painters: biography, discography, reviews, best albums, ratings
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