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....( this 1974 album shows a different side of the delectable Korean singer’s personality, as she is called upon to front slinky mid-tempo rockers instead of the folk-inflected tracks of both the “Now” and “Wind” records; this makes for some interesting music, including a break-beat laden cover version (we think) of Janis Joplin’s “Move Over”; the tracks all sound more than a year removed from the previously mentioned records, in part because of drastically better production values (this album was made for Jigu, unlike Kim Jung Mi’s other releases), that and the addition of horns, organ, and even a string section (tracks eight and nine); Shin Jung Hyun is still backing his protégé with characteristic sinuous guitar lines (check out the opening to track five), so no loss of musical quality evident. Our only complaint is that all the information—including what appears to be a discography of Shin Jung Hyun—is only in Korean, so we don’t know anything more about the music than what we can hear—but how can we complain: that’s what matters most with music after all... what we hear. And this is well worth hearing
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