

정훈희 - Jung Hoon-Hee (Chung Hoon-Hi)
This is a light but in fact great short (2->4 min songs) collection of pop/rock with very convincing warm and nice range of singing voice, nicely attractive songs perfect for repeated listed and with a great variety of well worked out and thoughtfully produced arrangements (mostly small and again thoughtful workout accents of strings including plucked arrangements or some brass, with solo electric leads or rhythm guitar with here and there some accompanying acoustic guitars o


조미미 - Cho Mi-Mi / Jo, Mimi
KBS Media 조미미 / 골든 Golden 2CD 2006.09.18 CD 1 01. 바다가 육지라면 / If the Sea is Land 02. 먼데서 오신 손님 / Guest from far away 03. 단골손님 / Regular customer 04. 서산 갯마을 / Seosan Gaet Village 05. 선생님 / Teacher 06. 진부령 아가씨 / Jinbuyeong lady 07. 연락선 / Ferry
08. 서귀포를 아시나요 / Do you know Seogwipo? 09. 사랑은 장난이 아니랍니다 / Love is not a joke 10. 명동 블루스 / Myeongdong Blues 11. 돌아와요 부산항에 / Come back to Busan Port. -disco/funk/trot- 12. 란 같은 여자 / A Girl Like Ran 13. 연화궁 / Yeonhwagung
14. 해지는 섬포구 / Losin


최무룡 - Choi Mu-Ryong / Choi Mooryong
This is a collection of old time music Trot (50s styled), with slow male singing and small combos (reeds, strings) with solo instruments like accordion or sax or acoustic/early electric picking guitar and such. The best part is CD2 where also responding female harmony singers are added, adding a charming filmic aspect to the music, improving with it the whole atmosphere. Choi Mu-Ryung was also a film actor. First it was unclear to me how much the actor Choi Moo-ryong (Februar


정태춘 - Jung, Tae-Choon, Cheong Tae Choon
정태춘 1집 - 시인의 마을 (LP Miniature)정태춘 노래 | 뮤직리서치 | 2008년 01월 10일 CD Music Research 정태춘 - 1집 시인의 마을 LP version 2016 MRCD1613 1978-11-5 LP 01 시인의 마을 / Village of Poetry 02 사랑하고 싶소 / Wish for love * 03 촛불 / Candlelight * 04 서해에서 / At the Western Sea 05 그네 / Swing 06 목포의 노래(여드레 팔십리) / Song of Mok-Po (80 years old) 07 아하! 날개여 / Ah ha! Dear Wing 08 겨울나무 / Winter Tree 09 사랑의 보슬비 / Rain of Love 10 산너머 두메 / Over the Mountain Tracks with * I consider essential listens or classics from a


정태춘 - Jung Tae-Choon & 정태춘 & 박은옥 - Jung Tae-Choon & Park Eun-Ok
also written as -Jung Tae-Chun & Park Eun-Yok / Jeong Tae-Chun and Park Eun-Ok / Cheong Tae-Choon and Park Eun-Ohk- 정태춘 - Jung Tae-Choon: 아, 대한민국... 5 1990 Han Kook Record Co. HKC191, 삶의 문화 – ㅅㅁ0502 Jun 1996 CD * 1 아, 대한민국... / Ah, Korea ... 5:26 2 떠나는 자들의 서울 / Leaving Seoul 5:00 3 우리들의 죽음 / Our deaths 7:12 4 일어나라, 열사여 / Wake up, heath 5 :37 5 황토강으로 / Into the ocher 5:34 6 한여름 밤 / Midsummer Night 5:12 7 인사동 / Insadong 2:32 8 버섯구름의 노래 / Song of Mushroom Clouds 6:50 9 형제에게 /


신중현과 엽전들 - Shin Joong Hyun & Yeopjeondeul / Yup Juns/ Yupjeons / Coins
"Musical performance by Yupjeons. This record reissued only CD in 2002. A4-6 and B4-6 songs are not Kim Jung Mi songs and Shin Jung Hyun's songs, but by other singers and writers. At this album Kim Jung Mi's sexy and acidly voice meets Shin Jung Hyun's psychedelic pop feelings again. Some songs have a certain pop feelings but have also Shin Jung Hyun's great musicality with his group Yupjeons's musical performances." Folkie Jin "Groovy folk funk from mid 70s Korea -- mad, p


최안순 - Choi An-Soon (Choi An-Soon) (<-Lana.et Rospo)
Most of the album is folk songs with acoustic guitar, possibly more of the tracks are covers of popular Western song hits (like “Plaisir D’Amour” and Greensleeves”). The picking is good and the voice has a sort of strong quality of innocence I rarely heard in this amount outside Korea (such approach could easily balance between sensitive and mellow). For some tracks the singing makes a few strange turns, perhaps it was not always totally correct for each note or variety as a


최양숙 - Choi Yang-Sook
LP reissue 최양숙 꽃 피우는 아이 (400 Set 고유번호 한정반) GEBLSL24 2013-12-06 This is a song-based album somewhat for a certain mainstream public, but partly also with an acoustic songwriter folk association here and there (like some songs that are founded with acoustic guitar only): a collection of songs with a certain associative emotionality. The acoustic guitar being used in the arranged songs has a slight flamenco touch. The backings are arranged with some strings (and occasionally a


조용필 - Cho Yong Pil / Jo Yong-Pil (Five Fingers / Kim Trio Band)
I had already the opportunity to listen to the album on YouTube before I had it. This was my first impression: Although Cho Yong Pil is a mainstream crooner / Trot singing, I still decided to list this album, because its accompaniment is dominated by keyboards with drum & bass, where at times it’s synth use is even the main element. The last track on side A sounds like a light disco-funky instrumental (guitars, keyboards, drums). The songs themselves don’t surpass the usual


조영남 - Cho Young-Nam
조영남-점이-여보 / Point / Honey Most of this album is going beyond the interest of Western Music lovers. At it worst, like track 3, this is goes onto the direction of a kind of mellow schlager-operette using a melody like performing a Christmas-song-for-all-seasons, accompanied by orchestra and band. Most tracks are mellow song pop. The second track, with the singers odd, perhaps unusual voice takes a totally different approach when singing a Korean folk song, while being accompani