Kamakiriad

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Kamakiriad
Studio album by Donald Fagen
Released	May 25, 1993
Recorded	1990–93
Studio	River Sound, Clinton Recording Studios and The Hit Factory (New York City, New York) Hyperbolic Sound (Maui, Hawaii)
Genre	Jazz-rock
Length	50:31
Label	Reprise
Producer	Walter Becker
Donald Fagen chronology
The Nightfly (1982) Kamakiriad (1993) Morph the Cat (2006)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[4]
The Great Rock Discography	7/10[5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
NME	[7]
Q	[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Uncut	8/10[10]

Kamakiriad is the second solo album by Steely Dan artist Donald Fagen, released in 1993. It was his first collaboration with Steely Dan partner Walter Becker since 1986, on Rosie Vela's album Zazu. Becker played guitar and bass and produced the album. The album is a futuristic, optimistic eight-song cycle about the journey of the narrator in his high-tech car, the Kamakiri (Japanese for praying mantis). It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year 1994.

Music videos were produced for "Tomorrow's Girls" (starring Rick Moranis) and "Snowbound" (using stop motion animation).^{[citation needed]}

Fagen and Becker embarked on their first tour as Steely Dan since 1974 to support the album.