Sold Date: January 3, 2015
Start Date: December 25, 2014
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KIM JUNG MI 'Now' LP (US, Lion Productions, Catalogue #LION-LP 122) Brand new/unplayed copy of superb and SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT limited Lion Productions LP edition reissuing the very rare and highly sought after Korean Fontana label album from 1973 of ethereal Korean female vocal fronted folk lounge pop psychedelic rock, sung by the enigmatic Kim Jung Mi and written, arranged and backed by Shin Joong Hyun and his band. Includes OBI and four-panel insert with liner notes, photos and English translated lyrics.

'At the dawn of the 1970's, South Korea's rock music scene was at its zenith. Much of the reason for this was the god-like musical touch of guitar wizard, songwriter, producer, and arranger Shin Joong Hyun. For this album, he took a young girl named Kim Jung Mi, and transformed her from wallflower student into a folk-psych chanteuse in record time (if Francoise Hardy is the Marianne Faithful of France, the Kim Jung Mi is, I suppose, the Francoise Hardy of Korea.) The ten songs on "Now" were written and recorded during 1973 with a firm mandate to create a truly psychedelic sound experience. On each number, Shin Joong Hyun and his backing group laid down pure emotion on tape. Mr. Shin's fuzz guitar weaves in and out of the tracks, interlaced with his own poetic musings on nature (spring, sun, flowers, rain, and wind); all else in the world apart from Kim Jung Mi's soothing voice, and insistent bass that crouches and creeps, depending on its mood, is displaced. This raw feeling, combined with Kim Jung Mi's seductive, expressive vocals and empathetic string orchestration, resulted in an album that is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Mr. Shin's ethereal cover photo - the blue graininess of the sky dripping into fading clouds, with Kim Jung Mi surrounded on her sky-high isolated mountain top by flowers - is the perfect image to represent what is, without a doubt, one of the best psychedelic albums ever created.'

(NOTE: SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT VINYL EDITION!)

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High-quality 180-gram vinyl pressing.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

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