Slow Wonder: Sima Kim And American Green’s Music For Dorothy
You have to make time for this one. Music For Dorothy is a collaboration between South Korean artist Sima Kim and Fukuoka’s American Green, and it is a collection in no rush to get anywhere. Three songs here go over the seven-minute mark, and even the shorter ones still unfold slowly, content to let synths and vocals ripple over one another. Give it some time, though, and it proves to be quite pretty. The music here brings to mind Japanese artists Cokiyu and Cuushe, in how they lean towards the dreamier side of things and how vocals are treated – almost every song features a guest singer, and that featured vocalist tends to blur in with the surrounding electronics, most gorgeously on opener “At The First Meeting” which features singer Linda Ong. It can get a little too twee – “Wisdom Teeth” goes a little overboard with the chiming late – but the bulk of Music For Dorothy is refined and dramatic (other highlights – the Sigur Ros unfurling of “Night Train,” the slow burn of closer “She Is Dorothy”). Get it here, or listen below.