![[Contraband] Kim Jung Mi – Now](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3085473_lg.jpg)
Spiritual scholars often debate the nature of souls, but I think this obscure gem from Kim Jung Mi acts as a great litmus test. This is some of the most undeniably beautiful music laid to tape - if you are not touched, perhaps you are what Father Malachai Martin calls "the prefectly possessed." That's hyperbolic, of course, but try to listen to album opener "Toward the Sunlight" and then tell me it doesn't dive deep into the soul. Finding tangible information on Kim Jung Mi is practically impossible, and finding her 1973 masterpiece Now [...]