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I've seen my fair share of shimmering mirages in the past including the one for a non-existent body of water. Nothing more exciting than that.
Looks like Kahimi Karie（カヒミ・カリィ）was in the middle of a Danny Thomas spit take in that cover photo for her October 2006 album "NUNKI". The track I'm covering here is "Mirage" which doesn't really come across as anything Shibuya-kei, the genre that I've always associated her with. The soft and kittenish French vocals are there but I think there's more of an intriguing indies pop feeling with some adventurous percussion blasting away. Karie took care of the lyrics while American musician and longtime Japanese resident Jim O'Rourke was the composer and arranger.
After reading this blog entry, the first thought I had was that this is a very intercontinental song, or at least its production was. Kahimi Karie seem to be a very unique artist.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people (including myself) had thought that Karie was born and raised in France with one of her parents being French. As it turns out, she grew up in Utsunomiya City, one of the homes of gyoza, and both her parents were Japanese.
DeleteI've read that she's retired from singing but she's left quite an eclectic discography.
Yeah, I assumed that she was half French or that she was a French (3rd cultured) girl who grew up in Japan. I see how misleading and sometimes dangerous assumptions can be.
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