Kahimi Karie Sings Momus In Paris
Post date: Sep 1, 2011 5:53:55 PM
Image from Discogs.com
See page attachments below, for:
1 - I Am A Kitten
2 - Vogue Bambini
3 - Giapponese A Roma
4 - Nikon 2
5 - The Poisoners
5 - The Poisoners*
* = The original recording is a studio demo only, and has low sound quality, isn't in stereo, included background studio noise and Karie's breath intakes etc... so I cleaned up the recording by hand over a couple of hours and came up with something that I'm relatively proud of - sounds okay to me.
Why are you posting this?
This is an album that I spent over two years trying to track down before finally finding a copy on ebay. I heard the first track on TripleJ one night and it stuck with me something serious. All I wanted was to hear the songs again, but they're not available anywhere for love or money. I like the music, so I've made it available to others.
The label that owns the rights to this album, Crue-L, folded a few years ago, so to the best of my knowledge no person or company has claimed the rights to this recording. You certainly can't buy it commercially anywhere. If you happen to know of a body which owns the rights, please let me know and I'll take these files down.
Yes, the songs are perverted, but please take it all with a sense of humour - the writer of these songs, Momus, most definitely intended it as such.
What?
Oh, I was assuming that you knew this album and were looking for a copy, but if you're reading this then you might be wondering what the deal is. A Scottish electropop artist named Momus wrote some songs for a Japanese Shibuya girl turned professional photographer turned singer named Kahimi Karie.
Momus likes to be crude in an entertaining way, pokes fun at things like the world's sexuality (see songs like The Sensation Of Orgasm, and The Only Animal That Desires), and Kahimi Karie sings breathily and cutesily. To pervert the songs even further, some are in French (I Am A Kitten and Nikon 2) and one in Italian (Giapponese A Roma). I don't know why that would make them more perverted but it does. The result is highly listenable, catchy, entertaining, and extremely crass if you can translate the lyrics.
The one in English is okay, it's only about poisoning people.
They call us the poisoners,
We got rich quick,
but the world got sick before we slipped the strychnine in the bar
So we'd rather be poisoners,
than losers,
like you are
For more information do a Google search or two. Specifically, there are many reviews of this album available if you hunt around, and generally, Karie has some more serious pop music out here (her more-recent album Trapeziste did well I understand), and Momus has a very large web-presence, helped more than a little by the fact that he has released literally dozens of albums over the years. Look up some of his lyrics too - they're interesting and hilarious (MC Escher (the impossible rapper), and 2pm to name a couple of favourites)
For them we're clear
They see right through
All the stupid and murderous things we do
... or would like to
-- Space Jews