Hyun, Shin Joong: Beautiful Rivers & Mountains: Psychedelic Rock Sound 1958-74 (Vinyl LP)

* (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. - AllMusicShin 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