Sun Kil Moon is a project from Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters fame. The ensemble consists of Painter's drummer Anthony Koutsos, drummer Tim Mooney (American Music Club), bassist Geoff Stanfield (formerly from Black Lab), and a string trio from the San Francisco Conservatory.
Their first album, Ghosts of the Great Highway, was recorded between March 2002 and May 2003 and released on November 4, 2003 on Jet Set Records.
TRACK LIST:
01. Glenn Tipton
02. Carry Me Ohio
03. Salvador Sanchez
04. Last Tide
05. Floating
06. Gentle Moon
07. Lily and Parrots
08. Duk Koo Kim
09. Si, Paloma
10. Pancho Villa
This cd has been said to be "the sonic equivalent of a tightly woven patchwork quilt, a sprawling aesthetic manifesto overflowing with empathy, warmth, nostalgia, and an intensely resigned anger and yearning to reclaim those who time has taken." (Hartley Goldstein, Pitchfork)
I tend to agree.