BEAUTIFUL RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS: THE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK SOUND OF SOUTH KOREA'S SHIN JOONG HYUN 1958-74

**** (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 its 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.

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