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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 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.
