Kahimi Karie

Karie Kahimi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 8, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Minty Fresh
• ASIN: B00000AGAU
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,689 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good Morning World

2. Candy Man

3. Elastic Girl

4. Mike Alway's Diary

5. Le Roi Soleil

6. Take It Easy My Brother Charles

7. Zoom Up!

8. Serieux Comme le Plaisir

9. Lolitapop Dollhouse

10. Dis-Moi Quelque Chose Avant de Dormir

11. The Way You Close Your Eyes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A really fun album, January 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Kahimi Karie (Audio CD)

OK, so Kahimi's vocals are breathy, underpowered, lacking in range and stylization, and so ethereal they are oftimes buried in the mix; her attempts at enunciating English words are feeble and scatter-shot, to say nothing of her French (in which she sings a couple songs)... but none of that really matters, because, all totaled, the way she-of-the-funky-green-hair sings is utterly sexy, disarming and relentlessly charming, possibly because of all its shortcomings. I shouldn't like this, but I do - a lot. This is pure bubble gum pop, but of the sincerest and most refreshing kind. The final song, "The Way You Close Your Eyes," seems like the perfect end-credits music to a teenage romance where everything unexpectedly works out well in the end - a reassuring message welcome in these bleak days. I have to say, of all the albums released in the 1990's, this is the one I would chose to play over and over again (though I'm not sure if that's more a compliment to Kahimi or a statement about the sad state of current music). This music makes me happy.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oh, Kahimi...(sigh), April 27, 2000

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Charles R Gigante - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kahimi Karie (Audio CD)

There are so many reasons why I should not like this album.Kahimi writes only one track, and does very little except sing andlook pretty. But I don't think she needs to do anything else. Her true pop sensibilities make her so incredibly adorable, that I can't imagine saying anything negative about her or this compilation. Most of the songwriting on this album comes courtesy of the always over-looked Momus, and the Japanese wonderboy Cornelius. Kahimi's collaborations with both of these artists' songs has breathed life into the compositions. Her breathy, sexy vocals are impressive not because of her vocal range (which is small at best) but because of her innate ability to sing pop songs. And not pop songs in an Aguilera-type fashion, but in a post-post-modern Japanese fashion. With influences from all over the world (Parisian, American, Asian, etc), Kahimi is a true pop artist. And that is what I love about her. She doesn't try to be anything she isn't. There's a truthfulness to her superficiality that is so amazingly NOW...I am smitten.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What do you get when you fall in love, Kahimi Karie!, May 27, 1999

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ZEN (flint, michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kahimi Karie (Audio CD)

this is simply spellbinding. kahimi's soft voice works a world of sound with ecclectic (not trite) music. it revolves around a world occupied by serge gainsborogh, komida, space and gert wilden. kahimi's background in photography gives her the eye for music; the ear can help you create the music but the eye allows you to see where it's going, and that is her special place in music.....a visionary.