Japanese singer known for a delicate, diaphanous vocal style and a repertoire that mixes pop, ambient, downtempo and experimental approaches.

Stage name presented as a constructed, evocative persona (review cites the singer's given name Mari Hiki). She records in multiple languages (French, Italian appear in reviews). Reviews highlight both a very minimal, acoustic/idiophone album (It's Here) and an eclectic, electronic/downtempo album largely sung in French (Trapeziste).

Two DeBaser reviews present Kahimi Karie as an ethereal, deliberately constructed stage persona and singer. It’s Here is described as an extreme, minimal acoustic/idiophone work; Trapeziste is praised for eclectic, French-language downtempo and electronic textures. Reviewers value her delicate vocal style and adventurous arrangements.

For:Fans of delicate vocalists, experimental pop, ambient and downtempo electronic music; listeners curious about multilingual, eccentric pop.

 "It\u0027s Here" is 50 minutes and 21 seconds of music in its purest state, completely lacking any structural and rhetorical logic: Kahimi Karie is accompanied only by two chordophones, piano and acoustic guitar, and a great quantity of idiophones including maracas, marimba, cabasa, wood block, rain stick, various percussions, various types of bells, and many other instruments to achieve only a minimal part of a controlled sound, seeking instead a noise as uncategorizable as possible.

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 "Well, this is \"Una Giapponese A Roma\", the cult-trash song by Kahimi Karie, a Japanese girl who declared her love for our country through a very ungrammatical Italian text."

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