Playlist "Psyche van het Folk", Radio Centraal, Antwerp, Belgium KOREAN PSYCHEDELICA RADIOSHOW 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 1, He5 & He6: * label? He5 : Merry Christmas Psychedelic Sound (KO,1969)**°°° Tr.1, "Holy Night" 4 min Tr.7, "Jingle Bells/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" 13 min Tr.8, "title ?" 6 min About the album : It is an all instrumental album. First track is good garage psych version with Shadows-like guitar. Second track, "White Christmas" is a-go- go garage psych. It's left out for time limitation reasons. Third track is purely go-go beat styled, still enjoyable. Some other tracks are kitschy & funny too, so as a go-go style only. Funny is also the 13 ! minute track, which start with a Shadows-like a go-go psych version of "Jingle bells", then suddenly turns into a fantastic psychedelic interpretation of (the long version of) Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" !? -including the drum solo- and then turning back over some fragment of "Paint it Black" to the "Jingly bells" tune. Pretty unique and here also successful idea! A similar successful mix is done on the last track. Recommended album! Last track is influenced by black music like from James Brown etc.. * Grand Rec. He6 : Vol 1 (KO,1970)**°° Tr.1, "The love of grassland" 3 min Tr.3, "Wulrung Island Ballad" 5 min Tr.5, "Wang Castle place of old time" 5 min Tr.11,"title?" 3 min 16 -39 First track is 60's psych styled with sweet vocal harmonies and birds sounds. Second chosen track is similar, and has great additional electric guitar solo's and handpercussion in stead of drums. The covers on the B-side, like "Proud Mary" and "Aquarius let the sunshine in" and "Let the sun shine" I like much less than the original songs. Especially the first side is highly recommended to 60's psych fans! * Grand Rec.He6 : Would you He6 with go go Music ? vol 1 (KO,1971)***° Tr.1, "Theme 1 : Introduction music" 8 min Tr.3, "Theme 3 : Running Human" 10 min 18 -57 First track is great instrumental a go-go psych with stretched middle passage with drum & bass solo mostly. Second chosen track is funky psych track, also with some flute, and lots of percussion. Recommended album. Other tracks used from He5/He6 (compiled on one cdr for practical reasons) : * Jigu Rec. He5 with Jun Sisters : Hey Jude/Come Back (KO,1970) -? Compi.tr.6, "You keep me hanging on" 5 min Good Korean cover version of this known song from Vanilla Fudge ???. * King Rec. He5 with Lee Sueng-Jae (KO,1970) -? Compi.tr.9, "Dreaming Love" 3 min -64 Nice a go-go freakbeat (?) instrumental. (or is this "I will follow your mind" from : * Sinsege Rec. He5 with Yang Mi-Ran : Soul Sound (KO,1968) -?) (* Oasis Rec. He6 (KO,1972)? Compi.Tr.15, "Get Ready (rare earth version)" 16 min 24 Has theme change with solo's after some long repetition of basic theme. Not the best of the long tracks but still pretty much worth hearing. Like always I really like the organ solo. Possibly left out for time limitation reasons). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Part 2: SHIN JUNG HYUN (part 1): " Shin Jung-Hyeon is the Godfather of Korean pop/rock. He started his musical career in 1955. In those days, immediately after the Korean War, so there is few musicians. At 1957 he can play at the US army in Korea. His psychedelic play fascinated US soldiers, some records company said him to make LP. His 1st band Add 4 constructed in 1962. Add 4 is the first rock band in Korea. After the time he started to make hit songs. Kim Jeong Mi, Park In Su, Pearl Sisters, Kim Chu Ja, Im A Yeong, Jang Hyeon and other singers debuted with the support of Shin Jung Hyeon. They debuted with his hit songs and he became the biggest power in Ga Yo scene." Folkie Jin "Early Shing Jung-Hyun debuted with Korean's first psychedelic group Donkeys and professional rock group Questions supporting various singers." The most interesting records of him are all dating from 1969-1973 some compiled tracks : * Kim Chu Ja with Shin Jung Hyun & the Men (KO,1969): compi Tr.1, "Must leaving the people" 8 min This is a song with nice psych organ in late 60's psych pop style. * Jang Hyun & The Men (KO,1972): compi Tr.2, "Beautiful river and land" 11 min A very good end 60's styled psychpop ballad. With some hobo, acoustic and electric guitars, drums, bass & organ, with fantastic psych instrumental part! On vocals: Shin Jung Hyun & Park Kwang Su. compi Tr.4, "A lawn" 5 min With Park Kwang Su on baritone vocals & with backing soprano female vocals, soprano sax ?, psych organ, drums. This is another fine song with some emotionality. "From this record only the song on Side B(2) got a reissue in CD format in 2002, on The men compilation album. The men was his best days group with Yupjeons and made highest perfectionist songs because of the participation of Son Hak- Rae(Saxophone, Oboe). They played mostly long time Psychedelic numbers and longer than original song at live show. It was a great improvisation performance!! But sadly, live songs weren't recorded. The Men members were Shin Jung-Hyun(Lead guitar and vocal), Lee Tae-Hyun(Bass), Mun Yung-Bae(Drum), Son Hak-Rae(Saxphone,Oboe),Kim Gi-Pyu(Organ),Park Kwang-Su(Vocal) with guest vocalist(Kim Jung-Mi,Lim A-Yung,Jang Hyun etc.) At this time Shin Jung Hyun had to consider both a Popular and Experimenting approach, like the record company demanded. So Side A contains popular short songs with a Guest singer and Side B are more longer psychedelic songs of his group the Men, with Jang Hyun and the men, Jiyeon and the men, Yoon Young-Kyun. So you must pay attention to Side B songs!! Side B2 "Jandi(Lawn)" means Marijuana (local secret language). This song is a very unique and fascinating eastern psychedelic number. Side B1 "Beautiful Rivers and Mountains" is a masterpiece song of Korean psychedelica. He wrote this song for a week at Korean group sound office room. This song is a about praising the nature of Korea. -Park Jung-Hee (the President of South Korea from at these days a military regime was president of dictatorial government) commanded Shin Jung-Hyun to make the blue house (which is the Korean presidential residence) praising song but he rejected to do so and made the song "Beautiful rivers and mountains" instead, that praised the beautiful nature of Korea.- Since then they were probably searching something to blame him more seriously.. Great psychedelic Gem and Eastern psychedelic style song! And you can hear nice fuzz guitar sounds at the latest section. * Ji Yeon & The Men (KO,1972) : compi Tr.5, "The woman in the rain" 12 min This is a fine psychedelic instrumental of the band, starting of with melancholic organ. It has a great electric guitar improvisation. Basically it's a bass & drums psychedelic repetition, suitable for solo improvisations. It shows the guitarist's talent. But also the organ solo/keyboard solo is really excellent! * Yoon Young Kyun & the Men (KO,1973): compi Tr.3, "It's a lie" 24 min 60 -141 This is another psychedelic track. The small song part itself is ok, but it's the large instrumental improvisation that really does it. Here the organ solo is at its best, but also the group sound is best.Excellent psych! It also has a Middle Eastern improvisation part on something that sounds like a clarinet (?). One of the better Korean psychedelic tracks I heard so far. With wa-wa guitar, lots of experimentation in organ sounds, etc. * label ? Kim Sang Hee : Psychedelic Live Stage with Shin Jung Hyun & Questions (KO,1970)°°° Tr.8, "The hurt of love" 9 min 9 -150 "The hurt of Love" starts like Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gada-Da-vida with some church organ. The song and singing that follows takes it first back to a kind of pop-song. Technically the singing overloads a bit because this is a (still somewhat ok quality) bootleg recording. The music repeats a certain rock pattern. But then it builds up quickly to psychedelic heights, first with organ, then after a while with electric wa-wa guitar outbursts on a bass repetition, until it comes back to the song. This track especially makes the recording interesting. Most of the rest is much more into mainstream territory. "This record is live recording. Side A recordings are pop styled, but Side B recordings are psychedelic styled. Especially Side B 3 "How am I?" is a great Korean psychedelic live recording. Shin jung-hyun thought to himself that she could also sing in Jefferson Airplane moods. So I think that this song was similar to White Rabbit of Japerson airplane!! Musical performance by Questions of Shin Jung-Hyun. I think that this record is a her best recording and one of Korean psychedelic best live recordings!! Highly recommendable record!!" Folkie Jin Only if time left : * Jigu Rec. Shin Jung Hyun & Coins (KO,1974)*°° Tr.3, "Exciting" 5 min -150 (Tr.7, "Beautiful woman" 5 min) I still want to airplay this sweet (soft psych-rock) ballad, but I might not have enough time to airplay anything of this boogie/blues-psychrock release.) "This record was reissued only CD format in 2003. A Korean psychedelic rock masterpiece!! Only this album released about 500 copies!! First pressing has not the A5 and B5 song, but only it just appeared the songs on the cover track list. Members are Shin Jung-Hyun(Guitar and Vocal), Lee Nam-Lee (Bass), Kim Ho- Sik(Drums). It is a different Musical performance and Drummer compared to the second pressing. It contains a psychedelic music performance. First pressing was reissued on CD, but at the reissue there are dubbed guitar sounds. The first pressing is in fact the best combination of styles (of Western rock music combined with Korean traditional rhythms) of all his records. It is a great eastern pyschedelia!! Only I just can say that "He almost completed his hope (to combine Western music with Korean traditional rhythm) at this album." Just you must feel it!! (The second pressing had hard rock styled musical performances. The reason is that record company wants popular rock sounds, and while the first pressing is not, they wanted to record it again. That's how Shin Jung Hyun had to record it again. They were only given to a broadcasting station. So it was a very rare and expensive these days. Second pressing is not so rare and low price. Second pressing members are Shin Jung-Hyun(Guitar and Vocal), Lee Nam-I (Bass), Kwan Young-Nam(Drums). It is a different Musical performance and Drummer compared to the second pressing.") Folkie Jin The second version will be airplayed at the end of next radioshow. Although Folkie Jin has a different opinion I Think I still prefer the second version of the album, which is more rock-orientated, with attention to the instrumentation. * Questions : Go Go Gala party (Live) : This is an album which I didn't find yet, do I could add it to the playlist. "This is a bootleg record. It was released withouto agreement of Shin Jung-Hyun. So it is very very rare!! Shin jung hyun played here live with his his band questions with guest singers (Kim Chu-Ja, Song Man-Su, Park In-Su). Recommendable songs are Side A4 and Side B1. Side A5 "Funky Broadway" is a cover song of Wilson Picket and is a great psychedelic improvisation!! and Side B has a only one track. The song is a cover song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" of Iron Butterfly. This particular cover of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" of Iron Butterfly is a legend, untill now. I think that this live song is a best of best Korean psychedelic live Jam!! and great and very very nice noise feast. Highly recommendable record!!" Folkie Jin ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** KOREAN PSYCH RADIOSHOW 2 : SHIN JUNG HYUN (part 2) : Only occasionally folk rock in Korea was made by a rock musician. This musician was Shin Jung-Hyun. I think there was no another musician like him in Korea. He made three psychedelic folk rock albums with folk singers. First one is Kim Jung-Mi's "Now"(1973) and Seo Yoo-Seok's "Shin Jung-Hyun Jakpeangok jip"(Shin Jun-Hyun songs collection, 1973) and Yang Hee-Eun's "Shin Jung-Hyun Jakpeangok jip"(1973). I think that he was interested about adding psychedelic music to folk music by the year 1973. Both albums (Seo Yu-seok and Yang Hee-Eun) were made only sides A by Shin Jung-Hyun. Sides B were composed by other composers. These records were a new experiment for the Korean Folk history. KIM JUNG MI & (FEMALE) SINGERS * Ponycanyon Kim Jung Mi (& Yupjeons): Now (KO,1973)***°' Tr.1, "The Sun" 7 min Tr.2, "The Wind" 4 min Tr.3, "Spring" 5 min Tr.6, "Your Dream" 6 min Tr.7, "Beautiful mountains and River" 5 min 27 This singer has a slightly breathy voice, with folk-psych group accompaniment. This is supposed to be her best work. Her voice style can partly be compared to some end 60's French chanson singing. The accompaniment varies a bit, is made to perfection, and is perfectly fitting for a song oriented record. A beautiful record. It was a bit more difficult to pick out tracks, because they all sound good. "Musical performance by Yupjeons. Korean psychedelic folk Masterpiece and her best record!! This record was reissued LP and CD format in 2003, but it is sold out now. She was made into a psychedelic singer by Shin Jung Hyun. Her vocal resemble the Grace slick of Jefferson Airplane was erotic that is a very sexy ? It is a mega rare Korean psychedelic folk or beat rock album. It also so rare because of Korea's president's "purge measure of Korean pop music" In 1970th her record was fired by government employees. You'll see her record listed at the Record Collector Dreams book by Hans Pokora" Folkie Jin * Ponycanyon Kim Jung Mi : The Wind (KO,1973)? Time limitations withhold me from air-playing something of this album in this radioshow. Perhaps more in a follow-up show. Additional track: Compi : Tr.7, "Beautiful Nature in Korea" 5 min -31 OTHER COOPERATIONS WITH SHIN JUNG HYUN : * Prince Rec. Shin Jung Hyun & Cambo Band : Sound (vol 1) (KO,1971)*° Tr.16, "Tomorrow" 4 min -35 Here the band is accompanying kind of 60's psych-pop songs, sung by female duo. It is an instrumental with some fine electric guitar and organ improvisation. Personally the mainstream female 60's pop songs themselves appeal less to me. I still preferred to take out the one ballad. "Guest female singers are Min A, Bonnie Girls, Ju Hyun He started his "Shin Jung-Hyun and his Cambo band" summer 1971. He recorded this record with some guest female singers. These are (the) Bonnie girls, a female duo : Ju Hyun, Min A, who were famous Korean pop group in the 70's. (At first they had debuted with shin jung hyun). Musical features of this album are very psychedelic with some unique Koreanized female garage songs. Especially Side A3 "UjuYeHang" (a space trip) is a great psychedelic female song and has unique guitar melody with echoed sounds. Side A has two songs by Min A, two songs by Bonnie girls, one instrument song by Shin Jung hyun and his Cambo band. and Side B has five songs by Ju Hyun. I think that this record is a great Korean female psychedelic record!!! Highly recommended!" Folkie Jin * Shin Hyang Rec. Lee Jung Hwa with Shin Jung Hyun & Donkeys (KO,1969)*°°'' Tr.3,"A Petal" 5 min Tr.6,"My Hearts" 16 min (=entire side B) 21 -52 Here Shin Jung Hyun & Donkeys were backing band for a basically mainstream song oriented release. Still, the psych elements are all there (electric guitars, organ,..), especially in some tracks. The first chosen song ("Petal" possibly means "marijunana") has some orchestration arrangement too. Last 16 minute track is similar and is the complete B-side of the album. Of course here's more room for band improvisation. This means a melodic repetition (drum, electric guitar, bass, organ) with on top a really great electric guitar improvisation (with some tiny wa-wa effects too) by Shin Jung Hyun, followed by a psych organ improvisation (somewhat Iron Butterfly like), a bass solo, and small piece of a rather simple (let's say a garage-like version) of a drum solo. Great! This albums has two versions (First pressing and Second pressing). This is the second pressing. It contain the same songs but with different recordings. First pressing is more primitive and live gem style but second pressing is more psychedelic pop style of late 1960s. * Prince Rec. Shin Jung Hyun & Golden Grapes: Sound vol 2 (KO,1971)**° Tr.1, "It's not man" 4 min Tr.4, "Lonely Heart" 5 min Tr.9, "Oh My Lover" 3 min 12 -64 The psych-pop songs are sung by quiet nice female voice.. This is accompanied with backing vocals on first track, and with organ, electric bass, drums, and here and there some electric guitar. Most songs are quite simple pop songs. "Musical performance by Golden Grapes with Shin Jung Hyun Lead guitar. Guest female singer are Kim Jung Mi, Ju Hyun, Min A, Bonnie Girls". Kim Jung Mi debut record! Musical performance of this record by Golden Grapes, the group also debuted with supports of shin Jung Hyun. All Group members were mixed blood and orphan guys. So Shin Jung Hyun wanted to help them. He often played with them and also he gave to play stages for them, too, and he played at this record with Golden Grapes. In this record also he worked with some guest female singers. These are Kim Jung Mi, Ju Hyun, Bonnie Girls, Min A. All Side A songs by Kim Jung-Mi and four songs are same to Kim Jung Mi second album but one song is a different. Side B songs are three songs by Ju Hyun, one song by Min A and Bonnie girls. Side B songs also included to Shin Jung-Hyun sound vol. 1 album, but the musical performance is different. The reason is that Musical performance of this record is by Golden Grapes, while on Shin Jung-Hyun sound vol. 1 album it was by Shin Jung-Hyun and his cambo band. All songs are nice Koreanized psychedelic sounds and you can understand that his great musical composition ability at this album. MORE INSTRUMENTAL (GUITAR) PSYCHEDELICA : * Prince Rec. Shin Jung Hyun & Golden Grapes: Sound vol 3 (KO,1972)***°° Tr.2, "Thinking heart" 3 min Tr.3, "Why you are.." 4 min Tr.4, "Please don't afflict me" 4 min Tr.6, "Instrumental" 15 min 26 -90 Some late 60's psychpop with nice organ (at times Iron Butterfly-like to give some idea), male voice(s), Beatlesque singing and psychrock drive, and some early 70's psychedelic rock. Last bluespsych track lasts for 15 minutes. It starts very, very slowly, with a blues-guitar solo and a "cancelled" psych organ playing (to participate). It takes an almost 8 minutes before the musical rhythm changes, into a funkier mode, which is moulded into a psych repetition too, with some electric guitar, until, I count now 9 minutes, the organ makes it to a (really great) solo too. When the drum starts its solo the track is (sadly) faded out. Highly recommended album. Perhaps one of the best psychedelic rock albums from Korea. "-Golden grapes debut album/Enjoy the psychedelic party or trip. Ultra Mega rare! This album is a great and masterpiece of Korean dark psychedelic rock music!!!! You can listen to very rhythmical and powerful psychedelic sounds at this album much more than on any other Korean psychedelic record. The colours of psychedelic sounds are very deep and dark also the feeling is damply and heavy. In shortly is this a bad trip! ? I think that this is a Korean representative psychedelic record and his forgotten masterpiece!! So you might have a big headache when the trip ended as with smoking marijuana!!! This is really dark and powerful, also hallucinating psychedelia !!!!" Folkie Jin * private Shin Jung Hyun & Coins: unreleased songs (KO,'74/'75)**°°' Tr.1, "The Fairy" 12 min Tr.4, "I saw you..." 6 min Tr.7, "In the Rain" 8 min 26 116 The debut of Coins I airplayed in first radioshow. This album is musically much more interesting. "The Fairy" is a very slowly starting beautiful psych ballad with sweet vocals. Some psychedelic elements also slowly come in, and near the middle taking the track over, with an almost over-droning and repetitive bass and electric guitars improvisation with voice screams on the background. (I guess a slightly different mix could still improve the track, but in this form it doesn't miss its psychedelic effect either). The repetitive bass and improvisation is stretched to an unusual, perhaps almost unnecessary length (in this mix). It has some great wa-wa guitar passages and the already mentioned voice screams. "I saw you..." has a psych-rock improvisational playing with some psych effects on the electric guitar and some distortion effects on the voice ? I really like the singing too. It also experiments a bit in improvisation. Also "In the Rain" has this kind of psych-blues repetition drive influence, with electric guitar and some voice drive improvisation (early Jimmy Hendrix came from the same musical area of early inspiration). * Jigu Rec. Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns: vol. 1 (KO,1974)**°° -(CD-version=second LP version)- Tr.1, "Beautiful woman" 4 min Tr.6, "Woman"3 min Tr.7, "The Exciting" 3 min Tr.9, "I don't know" 4 min 14 -127 Very good, fine psych-rock/hard rock album, with here and there some blues-rock elements. Last track on the album is a blues-rock improvisation, with some dirty fuzz touches. Very unique is also the combination of original Korean music with western elements. On first track this can be described as Korean music with some Hendrix influence or so. " First version of this record (Shin Jung Hyun & Coins) was reissued only CD format in 2003. But there are dubbed guitar sounds on the reissue of the CD. It is a Korean psychedelic rock masterpiece!! Only this album released about 500 copies only with a paper sleeve gate fold cover ! ! First pressing has not the A5 and B5 song, but only it just appeared the songs on the cover track list. Members are Shin Jung-Hyun(Guitar and Vocal), Lee Nam-Lee (Bass), Kim Ho- Sik(Drums). It is a different Musical performance and Drummer compared to the second pressing. First pressings were only given to a broadcasting station. So it was a very rare and expensive these days. The first pressing is in fact the best combination of styles (of Western rock music combined with Korean traditional rhythms) of all his records. It is a great eastern pyschedelia!! Only I just can say that "He almost completed his hope (to combine Western music with Korean traditional rhythm) at this album." Just you must feel it!! The CD reissue was published in 1994." "Second pressing (Shin Jung Hyun & Yup Juns) members are Shin Jung-Hyun(Guitar and Vocal), Lee Nam-I (Bass), Kwan Young-Nam (Drums). It is a different Musical performance and Drummer compared to the second pressing. This album is a Hard rock style of first pressings. But B5 is a great psychedelic instrumental song!!" In general it had hard rock styled musical performances. The reason is that record company wants popular rock sounds, and while the first pressing is not, they wanted to record it again. That's how Shin Jung Hyun had to record it again. This second pressing is not so rare and low price (on CD)." Folkie Jin The CD is still available : http://www.asiandb.com/store/detail.pfm?num=132 & http://www.koreainfogate.com/shop/movie/MDetail.asp?seq=132 * label ? Shin Joong Hyun (with The Three Travellers) (KO,197?)****° Tr.1, "Now we go to the World" 4 min Tr.4, "The Sea" 5 min Tr.5, "Enjoy Life" 4 min Tr.6, "The streets of Kwang Bok Dong" 5 min Tr.8, "A Stream" 7 min 23 -150 This first track is dirty hardrock-styled with a garage/punk-like straightness, and some additional heavy guitar solo touches. In general it continues in this raw adolescent (hard) rock style. In some way it has also a very 'eastern' vibe of hard rock. Perhaps also some traditionals or at least something of Korean styles and melodies (especially on track 5) were transformed into this hard rock style? I find it very enjoyable and very original this way. The 6th track has some intro bass/guitars chords I recognise from Black Sabbath, but perhaps this is completely coincidental. It has convincing vocals too. Last track has more complex electric guitar parts (heavy metal, hardrock-like & heavy bluesrock). Recommended album. Amongst my favourite Korean albums so far. What happened with Shin Jung Hyun after 1975 ? I told already before, in the first radioshow, that Park Jung-Hee (the President of South Korea from at these days a military regime was the president of a dictatorial government) commanded Shin Jung-Hyun to make the Blue House (which is the Korean presidential residence) praising song but he rejected to do so and made the song "Beautiful rivers and mountains" instead, that praised the beautiful nature of Korea. He was sentenced to prison under the suspicion of drug abuse (Marijuana) in December 1975. He had taken Marijuana only once in former days with some hippies only. The real reason for his imprisonment was not the drug abuse, but the refusal of Park Jung-Hee's command. He couldn't act more musical activities but still published his records until the 80's, until he died. After all, His best days was ended by people like Park Jung-Hee. A 3rd radioshow on Korea will follow later. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other playlists : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/2004.html General index page : www.radiocentraal.be/psychevanhetfolk More detailed index page : http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/index.html Receive weekly this playlist before the radioshow with new reviews and additional comments : / ontvang wekelijks playlist vòòr de radio-uitzending : Subscribe / schrijf u in : psychevanhetfolk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com