KOREAN PSYCH-ROCK & FOLK-POP reissues : Jeong Tae Choon / Cheong Tae Choon

Music Research Jeong (=Cheong) Tae Choon : 1st album

Love and life and at the time of eternity (KO,1978,re.2008)**°’

airplayed : Tr.5, “Swing” 3 min

Tr.6, “ Song of Mok-Po (80 years old)” 5 min 8

Acoustic song-writing album in a special more typical Korean sometimes mellow style. This was possibly influenced by Bob Dylan (use of a few mouth harmonica passages) or other acoustic songwriters and Korean folk songs. There are parts with lush orchestrations (keyboards here and there?) and some small band arrangements. I preferred to pick out two songs with a strong Korean influence. Digitally remastered from original reel tapes.

Titles : 01. Village of Poetry, 02. Wish for love, 03. Candlelight, 04. At the Western Sea, 05. Swing, 06. Song of Mok-Po (80 years old)

07. Ah ha! Dear Wing, 08. Winter Tree, 09. Rain of Love, 10. Over the Mountain

Music ResearchJeong Tae Choon : 2nd album Poet's village (KO,1980,re.2008)°°°

Tr.1, “This Night” 4 min

Tr.4, “Hometown” 4 min 8 -48

This follow-up has keyboard textures instead of orchestrations this time. The harmonies and musical modes sounds strange now and then (like track 3), and there’s also a croony mellowness increasing making certain tracks less attractive to western listeners. A few tracks still stand out.

According to mrkwang.com : “Jung Tae Choon is one of best Korean Modern Folk singer. Later his music became protest against goverment, but his earlier works were pure modern folk.”

Titles : 01. This Night, 02. Song of Fall (Sky), 03. Contest for the well-known singer from our village, 04. Hometown, 05. Praising song of Morning, 06. Temple morning, 07. Song for the passed father, 08. Missing mother, 09. Preparing hans flat together, 10. Happy birthday

Listing of albums here and here