Merry Christmas
Psychedelic Sound (KO,1969)
About the album : It is -except for the last track- an all instrumental album. First track is good garage psych version with Shadows-like guitar. Second track, "White Christmas" is a go-go garage psych. It's left out for time limitation reasons. Third track is purely go-go beat styled, still enjoyable. Some other tracks are almost kitschy & funny too, more a go-go styled. Funny and serious at the same time is the 13 ! minute track, which start with a Shadows-like a go-go psych version of "Jingle bells", then suddenly turns into a fantastic psychedelic interpretation of (the long version of) Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" !? -including the drum solo- (with great guitar) and then coming back, over some fragment of "Paint it Black", to the "Jingly bells" tune. Pretty unique and here also successful idea! A similar successful mix is done on the last track. Recommended album!Last track is influenced by black music like from James Brown etc..very "black" and funky.
He6 : Vol 1 (KO,1970)
First track is 60's psych styled with sweet vocal harmonies and birds sounds.
Second chosen track is similar, and has great additional electric guitar solo's and handpercussion in stead of drums. Third track has great electric guitars ! The covers on the B-side, like "Proud Mary" and "Aquarius let the sunshine in" and "Let the sun shine" I like much less than the original songs.
Especially the first side is highly recommended to 60's psych fans!
He6 : Vol 2 (KO,1970)
Very good sound!!
He6 : Would you He6 with go go Music ? vol 1 (KO,1971)
First track is great instrumental a go-go psych with some flute, great organ, electric guitar, and with a stretched middle passage with drum mostly. Second chosen track is funky psych track, also with some flute, and lots of percussion. Recommended album.
Beatball description : "This amazing set shows an excellent mixture of psychedelic,Latin jazz rock, blues-oriented hard rock. Kim Hong-Tak's heavy fuzz guitar allover the set with best funky rhythm set [Cho Yong-Nam & Kwon Yong-Nam (later SJH & Yeop Juns)] and flute ever in Korea"
Greatest Hits description : "Spontaneous 70's rock from Korea. These two album features a mix of 60's beat, psychedelic and funky rhythm based brass rock. Both albums, housed in quality sleeves comes packed in a hard carton Boxset, including a 24 page booklet, a 6 postcard set, band logo sticker & two big sized posters. Lim. to 1000 copies."
Rockin Hood description : "Spontaneous 70s native rock music from Korea. Initially only 300 of these 2 albums were released as promotional copies. This amazing set shows an excellent mixture of psychedelic, Latin jazz rock, blues-oriented hard rock. Kim Hong-Tak's heavy fuzz guitar allover the set with best funky rhythm set [Cho Yong-Nam & Kwon Yong-Nam (later SJH & Yeop Juns)] and flute sounds."
Aquarius Records description : "Recorded in, yay, 1971, pressed in a ridiculously limited (promotion only) quantity of 300 copies each, and subsequently all but forgotten, these two records by Korean psychedelic groovesters the HE 6 are some gems indeed! With the exception of the closing side-long seventeen minute cover of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (which faithfully does indeed include the obligatory drum solo as per the original version, along with what sounds like a police siren and also an added *flute* solo!) all the tracks on the two albums Go Go Sound '71 vol. 1 and Go Go Sound '71 vol. 2 included here are instrumental jams -- numbered themes with titles like "Theme 2. 4/4 for Guitar" and "Theme 3. Running Human". And even "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is mostly instrumental of course.
Listening to the other tracks on this disc it makes sense that they would choose Iron Butterfly's opus as the sole tune to cover. Like that tune, all of their originals are extended jams led by fuzzed-out electric guitar and Hammond organ. In addition, the aforementioned flute gets a workout too. (Yet another victory for the flute, so often mistakenly perceived as diminutive instrument! But the flute can certainly hold its own in this heavy, groovy, acid-rock band.) And it's crucial to mention that HE 6's rhythm section is darn tight! Indeed, this stuff's funky enough that we're sure they were probably just as much influenced by James Brown's band The JB's as they were by the likes of the Vanilla Fudge and Iron Butterfly. If not so obscure, we're sure this would have been plundered by DJs looking for the swank breaks... who knows, maybe hip hop producers in Korea have done so? So, very much recommended to all you folks into these sorta swinging '60s/'70s sounds -- especially if you dig the Cambodian Rocks and Thai Beat comps!
'Tis an expensive import, but the packaging helps justify the price: a gorgeous heavy-duty mini-LP styled gatefold sleeve, complete with a booklet featuring extensive liner notes (in English!) and photos, plus you even get two colorful HE 6 stickers! Nice."
Mutant Sounds : "...And the Lemmy-goes-to-India sounds of Sam Gopal. And the Juan dela Cruz Band from the Phillipines. And Turkish music galore. And all those incredible Cambodian Rocks comps. Et cetera, et cetera. Yup, we've had a lot of vintage heavy rock and psych reissues from all over the world now, but this is maybe the first time we've gotten our hands on something from Korea (and hopefully not the last -- we'd love to get Sanullim discs too, someday).Recorded in, yay, 1971, pressed in a ridiculously limited (promotion only) quantity of 300 copies each, and subsequently all but forgotten, these two records by Korean psychedelic groovesters the HE 6 are some gems indeed! With the exception of the closing side-long seventeen minute cover of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (which faithfully does indeed include the obligatory drum solo as per the original version, along with what sounds like a police siren and also an added *flute* solo!) all the tracks on the two albums Go Go Sound '71 vol. 1 and Go Go Sound '71 vol. 2 included here are instrumental jams -- numbered themes with titles like "Theme 2. 4/4 for Guitar" and "Theme 3. Running Human". And even "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is mostly instrumental of course.Listening to the other tracks on this disc it makes sense that they would choose Iron Butterfly's opus as the sole tune to cover. Like that tune, all of their originals are extended jams led by fuzzed-out electric guitar and Hammond organ. In addition, the aforementioned flute gets a workout too. (Yet another victory for the flute, so often mistakenly perceived as diminutive instrument! But the flute can certainly hold its own in this heavy, groovy, acid-rock band.) And it's crucial to mention that HE 6's rhythm section is darn tight! Indeed, this stuff's funky enough that we're sure they were probably just as much influenced by James Brown's band The JB's as they were by the likes of the Vanilla Fudge and Iron Butterfly. If not so obscure, we're sure this would have been plundered by DJs looking for the swank breaks... who knows, maybe hip hop producers in Korea have done so? So, very much recommended to all you folks into these sorta swinging '60s/'70s sounds -- especially if you dig the Cambodian Rocks and Thai Beat comps!
Excellent weird LPs to blow your mind and set your psychedelic "love in"(!) party to fire!"
He5 with Jun Sisters : Hey Jude/Come Back (KO,1970)
Good cover version of this popular song from Vanilla Fudge.with great electric guitar.
He5 with Lee Sueng-Jae (KO,1970)
He5 with Lee Sueng-Jae (KO,1970)
Nice a go-go Breakbeat instrumental.
He5 with Yang Mi-Ran : Soul Sound (KO,1968)
I really like "I will follow your mind" too but there's not enough air-play time for it.
He6 : vol 3 (KO,1972)
Has theme change with some solo's after some (very) long repetition of basic theme. The streched lenght does not make it the best of the long tracks but still pretty much worth hearing. Like always I really like the organ solo. It has very good drum solo too.
