#tumblbug

Hi, This is LIM KIM.

Someone might remember me as Superstar K3's Twogeworl or singer from Mystic entertainment. But now I would like to introduce myself as Lim Kim. I decided to do Tumblbug funding for EP production that I have been preparing for a long time and I want to share the story. If this funding project succeeds, I will release EP with six new songs and produce music videos. Above all, I hope that this project will create an opportunity to voice to those who think like me.

The blank space was my choice.

It was 2011. Like a guy who won a lottery and changed his life in a day, I became a singer when i woke up. Since then I released music without interruption, but I did not really know what I really wanted to do with my music. Many things and thoughts have gone through me, and from the moment I was deeply concerned about what my identity was. Beyond just delivering a good song with a good voice, I began to think about music that could come from my identity. I think it was a rebellion against the past condition because it was hard to know clearly what music I wanted to do. So I stopped my career for a while and chose to make a time to find myself. Because of the long blank, the profile on the web that explains me had the word 'retirement presumption’.But at that time, I was searching for my own music.

Identity : Asia and women

The first thing that came to my mind was the memory of my childhood. I moved a lot. I lived in foreign countries and Korea. Languages, cultures, and the faces of people who I meet were different in each places, but one thing that did not change was that I was living with the identity as an Asian woman. I didn’t think that much about being an Asian in Korea, but when i was abroad, it was different. In overseas, the first thing that I noticed was my identity as an Asian among other race of people. From those thoughts, I began to look back at my music. Although the lyrics were written in Korean, I have never thought about what music originated from the Asian culture. So I wanted to find myself again with the identity as an Asian woman. There was not a lot of music on this subject, so I could imagine it more freely and express with new voices and images as if I’m carving out a new road.

Thoughts in the Album

After I decided to talk about the theme of Asian women, I started to find ways to express Asian women in various ways as much as possible and started to think about topics.

First of all, Asia. Orientalism is a western ways of seeing Asia, so I felt that we need a redefinition of our own because we often forget the context and use it. Especially, I wanted to escape the stereotypes that are applied to Asian women, that are treated ridiculously in the media. But I did not want to create a song that contains messages that only stays in one side. So I wanted to consider both Easten and Western perspectives. Based on familiar genres of western music such as pop, hip-hop, and electronic, I tried to combine those elements with Asian instruments and Korean traditional music Pan-sori. I wanted to transformed them into unexpected music and characters. In addition, I didn’t want to approach simply by using Eastern codes, jokes as memes, or smirking. I wanted to clarify Orientalism which doesn’t fully explain the true Asian culture. Rather than merely using Asian images, sounds, and concepts, I wanted to express thoughts and philosophy in my own way.

Second, there are different voices of races such as white men and women, black men and women, but I wanted to raise the voice of Asian men and women who was the least heard among them. I wanted people to know that the voice of an Asian people could be different from the stereotypes. Because sometimes they could raise their voice shouting in an aggressive way saying I'm UNFUCKABLE CREATURE!

Tracklist

1. MIN JOK YO A - 무당이 행하는 굿판의 제사와 의식을 전유해 만든 이야기 - Ceremony of Goot, showing the cultural root of Korean culture. 2. SUKEBAN - 조신하고 수동적인 아시안여성의 스테레오 타입을 차용, 반전을 통해 깨부수는 이야기 - By using the way of mirroring, we break the stereotypes of passive and quiet asian woman 3. MONG - 동양 설화 중 하나인 호접몽처럼, 수많은 '나'에 대한 이야기 - Like the butterfly dream of Zhangzi, coutnless alter-ego 4. DIGITAL KAHN - 디지털 시대의 칸. 유목민으로서의 우리, 그리고 그 통합에 대한 이야기 - Kahn of digital world, Nomads as we, and the unification. 5. YO-SUL - 동양적 마법인 '요술'에 대한 이야기 - Throw a spell 'Yosul'. 6. MIN JOK YO B - MIN JOK YO A 와 이어지는 곡으로 새로운 세계에 도달하는 이야기 - Connection to Minjokyo A, entering a new world. 

About Tumblbug Funding

I think you might be wondering about this. Why am I trying to release an album through crowdfunding? I hesitated a lot but I thought about what i'm trying to do with this project. When I was working in the system in the past, it was not easy for me to have a full control over my music. But it was much more difficult than I thought when I worked on this album independently from the system as well. The industry was still unfamiliar with the work through these attempts, but I had a strong desire to overcome it. I thought it would be meaningful to make this project work. In addition, there is a reflection of my personality in the way I made this Ep. Thinking in Orientalism way, you will think that attitude of this album will be mild. But unexpectedly, I conveyed my thoughts actively and aggressively.

Tumblbug funding is also an extension of that. As many people did not expect me to do Tumblbg funding and it is a challenge for me as well. But when the challenge attracts people's attention, I think it would be possible to prove in a different way the success that society demands.

I thought that it is meaningful to be with people who think the same way as me so that this project can encourage many people to do what they want. I hope to share and grow my message in my voice especially with those who are living in the category of Asian women. I also hope that this attempt could be a starting point for another attempt for someone who has a similar thoughts as me.

Finishing the story

For me, the album that I'm going to release through this funding is not just an intention to present music differently from the existing one, but it was a turning point in the life of me, and it was a new birth. During the last three years of this project, there have been a lot of difficulties and hurdles, but the reason why I was able to endure it was my desire to prove that such an attempt is possible and a clear message that I wanted to convey.

I hope that this funding with you will provide unlimited potential and diversity to the world. Thank you for joining me.

Hello! 

For all of you who do not know, Lim Kim has decided to pursue music in a different interesting new way. After she quit mystic89, her old label, she has been working on her new EP for several years. Since she has become a fully independent artist she wishes to share her EP through crowd-funding instead of basing her revenues through the traditional way. Our girl is trying to shake the old K-pop system and if you are in South-Korea and wishes to contribute please do so on this portal!

If the project is successful, she plans to shoot a music video at the end of August. In September, the album will be ready for release and rewards such as CD and T-shirt will be sent to our supporters. Album covers and other things will be updated on the project page as they are completed. In addition, she can do the following depending on the fund amount.

❋ 50,000,000 won, Ep Release + Music Video (94% complete)

❋ 100,000,000 won, Ep Release + Music Video + Special Performance

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