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Shin Jung-hyeon & Yeopjeons / Shin Jung-hyeon & Yeopjeons 1st Album (1974)


Shin Jung-hyeon & Yeopjeons 신중현과 엽전들
Shin Jung-hyeon & Yeopjeons 1st Album 신중현과 엽전들 1집

1974. 08. 25


The Firstly Issued Version
Side A
1. 저 여인 / That Woman



2. 그 누가 있었나봐 / There Might Have Been Someone
3. 설레임 / Flutter
4. 생각해 / I Think about You
5. 긴긴밤* / Long Long Night*

Side B
1. 나는 몰라 / I don't know
2. 할 말도 없지만 / Nothing to Say
3. 미인 / Beauty
4. 나는 너를 사랑해 / I Love You
5. 떠오르는 태양* / Rising Sun*

* These tracks were actually not featured in this album, but appeared in the song list on the album.

The Secondly Issued Version
1. 미인 / Beauty
2. 생각해 / I Think about You
3. 그 누가 있었나봐 / There Might Have Been Someone
4. 긴긴밤 / Long Long Night
5. 나는 너를 사랑해 / I Love You
6. 저 여인 / That Woman
7. 설레임 / Flutter
8. 할 말도 없지만 / Nothing to Say
9. 나는 몰라 / I Don't Know
10. 떠오르는 태양 / Rising Sun

Perhaps, "the godfather of rock music" would be considered as somewhat banal expression. However, everyone would probably agree that Shin Joong-hyeon deserves the title. Shin Jung-hyeon is a Korean guitarist who is considered as the godfather of Korean rock music. He started his music career with a nickname called "Jacky" in the US forces Korea from 1955, when he was 17 years old. In 1959, he published his solo debut album called "Hiki Shin Guitar Melody". Soon, he formed the band called "The Add 4", and published their first album which is considered as the first band music album in Korea in 1964 (We had reviewed this album already here). After that, he had not only created various rock music, also grew lots of musicians such as Pearl Sisters, Jungmi Kim who we shall have a close look at later.

During the 1970s, One of the biggest challanges that Korean rock musicians encountered was if they could make their own style of rock music. In other words, they were experiencing difficulties to make 'true' Korean rock music which would be distinguished from the classic rock music that the western countries already dominated.

This album directly answered this challenge combining traditional Korean music and rock music together successfully. Within this album, Shin interpreted rock music in his own way using five notes scale which was common in Korean traditional music(especially in "Beauty" and "Long Long Night"). Also, he showed his own distinctive music style by adding some psychedelic atmosphere within the album.
Even though this album featured music which are somewhat experimental, this album made a huge success both on critics and the mass public. Especially, one of the most famous songs featured in this album, "Beauty" (미인) has been remade by numerous artists such as Sinawi, YB.

However, because of the military dictatorship in that period, his music soon got considered as somewhat 'bulgur', 'chepaish', and he finally got arrested for "involvement" with marijuana in 1975. Later, he could restart his music career when the Republic of Korea came into the age of democracy in 1987. Nevertheless, in that period, rock music has already become minority. Techno, trots, dance music were considered as the mainstream of music so that he couldn’t get any more success on the pop music industry. In spite of it, again, he didn’t give up, and continued to work on lots of musical experiments. As a result, he became the first Asian musician who got Fender Custom Tribute guitar joining five of other rock legends as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Probably, this album shows well how he has struggled against the dictatorship and the sensorship and how he has made such a huge contribution to Korean rock music.

  
(Shin Jung-hyeon & Yeopjeons - 미인 / Beauty)


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