Big thanks to my friend and inveterate record collector/researcher Stuart Ellis for sending me links to some Asian 60s music pages.

http://progressive.homestead.com has some deep pages on Japanese folk and psych, which feature links and band names a plenty. I also like the Southeast Asian page with its many pictures and links (including one to a review of my own). But the coolest discovery for me on the site is the extensive information on a genre I knew almost nothing about: Korean psychedelia.

In particular, the story of the diminutive band leader Shin Jung-Hyun (seen dwarfed by a Gibson SG in this photo) is fascinating. Shin began his musical career in 1955 and went on to make something like 100 records in various groups. His group Add 4 is said to be the first Korean rock band. Jang Hyun and the Men, the only Shin group I've heard (thanks again Stuart), sound a lot like "Nights in White Satin"-era Moody Blues. Great stuff.