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K.K.K.K.K. [616656001225]

Kahimi Karie
1 disc

1. One Thousand 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. Harder They Come, The
8. Symphonies of Beethoven, The
9. Orly-Narita
10. What Is Blue?
11. Kahimi au Tlphone
12. What Are You Wearing?
13. Symphonies of Beethoven - (Add N to (X) mix)
14. Only-Narita - (Buffalo Daughter mix)
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 60012
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Contains 15 tracks.
Kahimi Karie's second full-length album K.K.K.K.K. offers a more straightforward, rock-oriented approach to her usually girlish, exotic sound. Over the course of three languages -- Japanese, English and French -- and 11 songs, Karie adds a crisp, direct edge to her sound. K.K.K.K.K. also features four remixes by Add N To X, Buffalo Daughter, Shinco and Hirohisa Horie of Neil & Iraiza. ~ Heather Phares
Critic Reviews

Rolling Stone (11/25/99, p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...takes Karie's musical tourism to a new level of snapped sophistication....Few singers show such restraint while reaching round the globe."
Spin (1/00, pp.122-3) - 7 out of 10 - "...baby-doll-voiced cultural crossfade of Tokyo cool and sexy Eiffel Tower....the proverbial Big-In-Japan....[a] curiously shimmering star-lite in pop's milky way."
Alternative Press (3/00, p.83) - 4 out of 5 - "...she breathes life into songs written and produced by artists like Momus, Stereo Total and French singer/songwriter Katerine. [Her] talent lies in adopting her collaborators' material into a style all her own....enchanting..."
Magnet (1-2/00, p.70) - "...another episode of Jobim/bossa nova moments, swinging shag-pop and 'faux'-Gainsbourg percussive....The biggest change...is that Karie has discovered trash drumming, rim-swallowing garbage-slamming that colors the funny pop...like John Bonham on a bender..."
CMJ (11/1/99, p.21) - "...Karie's charm imbues the entire record and compels the likes of Buffalo Daughter and Add N to X to get in on this saccharine pop fling."