Kahimi Karie

compiled by Nicholas D. Kent
email: ndkent "at" optonline.net

Last updated 06.1.20

(*) means I don't own this album and haven't listened to it.

(@) means I don't own this album but have listened to it.

tracks in this color are included on the U.S. Minty Fresh compilation

K.O. is Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius)

thanks: Ron Kane, Howard Greenberg, TS, Rodney Greenblat

 

www.kahimi-karie.com

(official site)

Kahimi Karie and The Cruel Grand Orchestra

mike alway's diary

1992 CD5 : Crue-l KYTHMAK 003D

1. Mike Alway's Diary (Japanese)
2. Mike Alway's Diary
3. Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed
4. Shower To Shower

first release. Mike Alway is a hip British A&R guy. Shower to Shower sounds like a TV commercial song.

girly

1994 CD5 Crue-l KYTHMAK011D
  1. Candyman
  2. Lolita Go Home
  3. Porque Te Vas
  4. Still Be Your Girl

    5.  
nothing comes between a girl and her monkey 		 

I am a kitten

Kahimi Karie sings Momus in Paris

1995 CD5: Crue-l KYTHMAK-015D

1. I am a kitten
2. Vogue Bambini
3. Giapponese a Roma
4. Nikon 2
5. The poisners

Momus talks about these tracks here. He has released his own sung demo versions of these and other Karie tracks for his own albums. Very continental and worthwhile. I think this was released in Spain also.

My First Karie

95.1.25 CD5: Trattoria (menu 56) PSCR-5348
  1. Elastic Girl
  2. Dis-Moi Quelque Chose Avant De Dormir
  3. Zoom Up!
  4. Do Me Do Me
  5. When You Close Your Eyes
  6. Dans Mon Nombrill
Has a similar cover to the Minty Fresh compilation below. Not the same contents though.

Leur L'Existence

95.7.26 CD5 Trattoria PSCR-5390
  1. -Prologue- Majime Ni Aishite! (SERIEUX COMME LE PLAISIR)
  2. Wakakusa No Koro
  3. Itsuwari No Koi -Ai No L'amour-
  4. -Epilogue- Majime Ni Aishite!
early versions (cardboard sleeve) have a karaoke CD3 		 

Good Morning World

95.10.16 CD3 Trattoria (Menu 70) PSDR-5237
  1. Good Morning World (Momus)
  2. A Fantastic Morment (KK/KO)
A big hit single.

Humming Ga Kikoeru

96.6.9 CD3 single Trattoria PSDR-5257
  1. Humming Ga Kikoeru
  2. Humming Ga Kikoeru (Karaoke)

    3.  
theme song to an anime I believe

Le Roi Soleil

96.6.26 CD5: Trattoria PSCR-5500
  1. Le Roi Soleil
  2. Take It Easy My Brother Charlie
  3. Ma Langue Au Chat
  4. Son Of A Gun
  5. Wakakusa No Koro / A Fantastic Moment (Demo Version)
  6. Humming Ga Kikoeru (bonus track)
The last of the K.O. collaborations

larme de crocodile

1997CD Crue-l KYTHMAK-031DA
  1. alcohol
  2. superfreak
  3. david hamilton
  4. electorophone
  5. paris, texas
  6. lolitapop dollhouse
  7. tiny king kong
  8. cat from the future
  9. watashi no jinsei, jinsei no natsu
  10. les leçons de francais

    11.  

 

coba featuring kahimi karie

tiny monster

9612.11 CD3: Eastworld TODT-3889 (full size case)
  1. tiny monster
  2. tiny monster (space accordion mix)
  3. quando sentirai da sola
Tiny Monster is Tiny King Kong sung in Japanese. track 2 is a different instrumental version. track 3 isn't Karie related (she sings it on a compilation album, but on here its just an instrumental). Coba is a Japanese accordion virtuoso (worked with Björk) . The track is the most electronic styled song KK has done. Sort of a Blade Runner feel. Superbly done.
 
 

 

Tiny King Kong

1997 CD: KYTHMAK029D, 12": KYTHA29
  1. Tiny King Kong
  2. Lolitapop Dollhouse (Loop Mix 2)
  3. Superfreak (acoustic)
  4. David Hamilton
I assume the 12" is the same as the CD5 single, I never saw the 12".
 
 

(remixes)

  1998 CD: Crue-l KYTHMAK-038D
  1. Fruit Paradise
  2. Superfreak (Sweet Robots Remix)
  3. David Hamilton (St. Etienne Remix)
  4. Superfreak (Sweet Robots Reprise)
 (*) 1998 12" KYTHA-38 
  1. Superfreak (Sweet Robot Remix)
  2. Superfreak (Sweet Robot Instrumental) 
  3. David Hamiltom (Saint Etienne Remix)
  4. Superfreak (Sweet Robot Reprise)

Fruit Paradise (non album) sounds like a nice CM song. It seems to be the last collaboration between KK and Cornelius to be released. Sweet Robots is Towa Tei.

 

KAHIMI KARIE (U.S. compilation)

Kahimi Karie TRATTORIA BEST (Japanese title)

(this is a Minty Fresh release in the U.S. )

(@) 98.9.30 (Japan) PSCR-5708, Minty Fresh (USA)
  • GOOD MORNING WORLD
  • CANDYMAN
  • ELASTIC GIRL
  • MIKE ALWAY'S DIARY
  • LE ROI SOLEIL
  • TAKE IT EASY MY BROTHER CHARLIE
  • ZOOM UP!
  • SERIEUX COMME LE PLAISIR
  • LOLITAPOP DOLLHOUSE
  • DIS-MOI QUELQUE CHOSE AVANT DE DORMIR
  • WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES

Since KK didn't release an album proper for her early years it is pretty useful to have a best of of this material for those who don't have a bunch of singles and EPs, and of course its good to see a compilation album finally released in the U.S. Its pointed out on the Japanese release that some of the tracks were released by Crue-L not Tratoria despite the name Tratoria Best

I've colored all the early tracks on this one green on this page so you can see how much of her early work you get on this release.

  

K.K.K.K.K.

98.7.15 Polydor cd: POCP-7296

Her second full length album

  1. One Thousand Twenty 20th Century Chairs
  2. What Are You Wearing?
  3. Qu'est-ce que tu veux?
  4. Clip Clap
  5. Kahimi Karie et moi
  6. Harmony Korine
  7. The Harder They Come
  8. The Symphonies Of Beethoven
  9. Orly-Narita
  10. What Is Blue?
  11. Kahimi au téléphone

The Symphonies Of Beethoven seems much more a Momus song for himself than a Karie song, not that its anywhere near as perverse as some of his other song's content when written for him to sing himself . It does manage to rhyme Dr. Robert Moog with nude, still I got the impression of "why is Karie singing this?"

Recently US released with 3 of the remixes below as bonuses: What Are You Wearing?, Symphonies of Beethoven [Add N to (X)], Only-Narita [Buffalo Daughter]

    
 

One Thousand 20th Century Chairs

1998 CD5: Polydor POCP-7297
  1. One Thousand 20th Century Chairs
  2. The Harder They Come (Crue-L Entertainment Mix)
  3. Harmony Korine (Dub)

I wanted to bring a copy of the book  One Thousand 20th Century Chairs to her live show, but I remembered wrong, I guess the title is ficticious and based on a Taschen book 1000 Chairs which I know about.

a K is a K is a K

1998 POCP-7344

remix

  1. One Thousands 20th Century Chairs Yasuharu Konishi
  2. What Are You Wearing? Shinco
  3. The Symphonies Of Beethoven Add N TO (X)
  4. The Harder They Come Kenji Takimi
  5. Harmony Korine (Dub) Tomoki Kanda
  6. Orly-Narita Buffalo Daughter
  7. The Symphonies Of Beethoven Tsuchie
  8. Kahimi au telephone Shizuo
  9. One Thousands 20th Century Chairs Hirohisa Horie
  

Once Upon a Time

00.3.29 POCH-1913

5 Song EP recorded with Olivia Tremor Control. Short in length, fairly dense, not mainstream but not European sounding either.

  1. do you know the time?
  2. metaphors
  3. turtle song
  4. monsters
  5. lost in a paris nightclub

Journey to the Centre of Me

00.4.26 POCH-1927

Another EP this time with Momus. A lot of people have mixed feelings on this one. Some like it some don't. I think he's giving KK material that she doesn't always connect with unlike his earlier days of coming up with songs that she worked wonders with. "mistaken memories of medieval manhattan" was the title of an avant garde video made by Brian Eno in the early 1980s. I think Momus was living around this time in Manhattan, like Eno back then.

  1. the seventh wife of Henry VIII
  2. mistaken memories of medieval manhattan
  3. the lady of shalotte
  4. pygmalism
  5. journey to the centre of me

Tilt

00.5.24 POCH-1949

Many people guessed there would be a lot of overlap on her full album of 2000 and the last 2 mini albums, it turns out there is only a song from each. Different artists collaborate on different songs.

  1. I can't waut for Summr
  2. Je Dormais Sous La Neige
  3. SLEEPWALKING
  4. Pygmalism
  5. Ice Age Train
  6. Dear Boy
  7. Do You Know The Time
  8. Metaphors
  9. ?
  10. (We'll go) Separate Way
  11. kumuri
  12. Happy Birthday What Am I For?
  13. Lilas Theme
  

 

K. K. LIMITED EDITION 2000

(*) 00.11

A limited collectors package that is said to contain some remixes, a live video,
T-Shirt and photobook. The price was pretty high (10,000 yen?)

  
 

K. WORKS 1998-2000 (best of)

(*) 01.06.27

1 TILT(REMIXED BY SUNSHINE FIX)
2 WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?
3 WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?(REMIXED BY SHINCO)
4 SLEEPWALKING
5 PYGMALISM(REMIXED BY OPTIGANALLY YOURS)
6 TURTLE SONG
7 CLIP CLAP
8 MISTAKEN MEMORIES OF MIDIEVAL MANHATTAN
9 HARMONY KORINE
10 DEAR BOY(REMIXED BY TONE TWILIGHT BUHAIMA)
11 DO YOU KNOW THE TIME?
12 METAPHORS
13 THE SYMPHONIES OF BEETHOVEN
14 ORLY-NARITA (REMIXED BY BUFFALO DAUGHTER)
15 I CAN'T WAIT FOR SUMMER
16 LOST IN A PARIS NIGHTCLUB

 

 

 

 

 

There is a photobook with an exclusive Momus collaboration single inside.

 

My Suitor

01.11.12

An EP of newly recorded covers. K.O. guests. Quite charming. Includes a simple unplugged style performance video as a computer file.

  1. MY SUITOR
  2. DILLY DALLY DOLLY
  3. MELT THE SNOW
  4. DRUM BEAT FOR
  5. BLACK VELVET
  6. SINCE YOU'VE BEEN AWAY
  7. PHOTO SONG,THE

Trapeziste

(*) 03.02.21

new album, supposedly somewhat jazz-electronic style

1 TORNADO(OUTSIDE)
2 TRAPEZISTE
3 ABOUT THE GIRLS
4 HABANERA
5 AU MARCHE DE SAINT-OUEN
6 LEXIE
7 SLEEP
8 TORNADO(INSIDE)
9 JE VEUX UN VIEUX

 
 

Montage

2004

1. When Will You Be Back?
2. Making Our World
3. Free Line
4. Pancartes
5. Japanese Title
6. Send Me Your Sun
7. Divers
8. Gila Gila
9. I Call You Call Me
10. Nana

Nana

(*) 2004 CD-5

1. Nana
2. Divers (Instrumental)
3. Free Line
4. Spinnin

  

 

Compilation tracks:

Early Band-- Fancy Face Groovy Name

 

Various Artists

Fab Gear

90.12.01 Polystar PSCR-1016

Fancy Face Groovy Name - apparently their only appearance on CD is one song on this compilation-Love is yé-yé (looking for my idol). The 2 singers in this band were a then unknown Kahimi Karie and Takako Minekawa who didn't keep using her faux french stage name, Mamene Kirerie. The rest of the band consists of the entire moonlighting Flipper's Guitar (key members Keigo Oyamada and Kenji Ozawa along with the rest of the band) who also appear on this rather rare but findable compilation. Apparently FFFN were a sort of hobby band and I suspect they got on the compilation for being friends of Flipper's Guitar. About half the acts are from the beginnings of the Shibuya-kei scene (including Bridge) and then the remainder are eclectic mostly UK acts like Momus and Louis Philippe.

(thanks Ron Kane!)

This is a label

(@) 1997 Crue-L cd: KYTHMAK030DA

This Crue-L label compilation CD contains a non-album track Quando Sentirai Da Sola, a KK track written by Coba. Voice and accordion.

further listings soon--

Best of:


VIDEO:

Karie On TV

(*) 1994 

Karie On TV From Trattoria

(@) VIDEO Trattoria PSVR-5031 31min.
  1. Elastic Girl
  2. A Fantastic Moment
  3. Good Morning World
  4. Humming Ga Kikoeru
  5. Le Roi Soleil

Various Artists

Trattoria Promotions!

(@)Video Trattoria PSVR-5021
  1. Intro
  2. Elastic Girl .....Kahimi Karie
  3. Gauloise .....Monsieur Kamayatsu with cornelius rock'n'roll orchestral circus
  4. Mini .....Corduroy
  5. Moon Light Story .....Cornelius
  6. P'Parco 1st Anniversary TV Spot

 
 
 
Links:

www.kahimi-karie.com

Minty Fresh

Unofficial sites:

kahimi dreamy

www.welovekarie.net (in Japanese)

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