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

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Artist: Shin Joong Hyun | Label: Light in the Attic |Format: 2xLP |Genre: World | LP Condition: New| Jacket:Sealed

Shin Joong Hyun
Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea’s Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974

Light in the Attic 065 – re-issue 2 LP set in a thick gatefold jacket

* (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

NEW SEALED re-issue 2 LP set in a thick gatefold jacket