Shin Joong Hyun - Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea

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* (4 Stars) "An incredible collection" - Record Collector

* (4 Stars) "... as important to Korean rock in 1970-75 as Phil Spector had been to America's pop scene a decade earlier, and every bit as busy." - MOJO * (4 Stars) "

The ten-plus-minute title track that closes the set is a labyrinthine folk-psych, acid-drenched masterpiece... It's an epic worthy of Morricone's spaghetti Western scores - had Morricone been born a guitarist. Ultimately, Beautiful Rivers and Mountains is more than a mere curiosity piece; for all it's easy-to-recognize styles, Shin's way of enmeshing them into something original underscores rather than erases their strangeness and splendor - even to widely exposed Western ears - making this is an excellent introduction to his work." - AllMusic
Shin Joong Hyun's tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions but also reverberating with echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable. These career-spanning anthologies gather Shin's work as a guitarist, songwriter, producer and arranger of mind-altering experimental pop, acid-folk, and extended psych-funk jams. A musical trip existing somewhere between Motown, Hendrix, and the Velvet Underground.

     Includes:
Moon Watching - Shin Joong Hyun
Please Don't Bother Me Anymore - Golden Grapes
The Man Who Must Leave - Kim Sun
The Sun - Kim Jung Mi
I Don't Like - Lee Jung Hwa
Please Wait - Jang Hyun
Spring Rain - Park in Soo
Tomorrow - Lee Joong Hwa
'J' Blues 72 - Shin Joong Hyun
Pushing Through the Fog - Jang Hyun
I've Got Nothing to Say - Shin Joong Hyun
Why That Person? - Bunny Girls
Sunset - Jang Hyun
Beautiful River and Mountains - Shin Joong Hyun & the Men

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