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Han Dae Su (=Han Tae Su) : Some Water Please (KO,1974)*°
Han Dae Su sings slightly bluesy/raw Dylanesque protest folk / folkpop songs. For foreigners not understanding the words, I think the music of this album isn't convincing enough to stands on its own. Therefore the wordy expressions are too important.
(The approach sounds more modern than as if from the 70s).
http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~glasstm/Music/hds.html : "Han Dae-su is one of the elder statesmen of the Korean underground scene. Active in the seventies (and perhaps before), his songs were banned by the government at the time for their popularity among student disidents who sang them at demonstration rallies to draw patriotic support. The songs were not overtly anti-goverment but suffiently abstract for the paranoid government of the time to scapegoat them. His recordings became available during the 80s and the first widely available album I am aware of was a greatest hits package that has been released at different times with different names and covers. It is a collection of songs played on a variety of acoustic instuments giving a raw folky, almost amateur feel. It reminds me of Bob Dylan in the mid to late 60s, particularly Dylan's John Wesley Harding album. It features the famous Haengbok ae Nara Ro [Towards the land of happiness] and a song that stands as the great Korean garage band song Mool Jom Jooso"
