Cibo Matto

Cibo Matto is a duet of New Yorkean musicians of origin Japan ease, Miho Hatori (song) and Yuka Honda (keyboards, sampler). Associated with the group for more or less important durations: Sean Lennon (low), Timo Elect (battery), Duma Love (percussions, rap, human happy box), Ricky Lee (low), Brandt Abner (keyboards), Ganda (song). Many other people collaborate in the albums of Cibo Matto in a specific way.

The name of Cibo Matto (to pronounce chi-bo motor bike ) means insane food and comes from an Italian erotic comedy of the Années 1970, Sesso Matto (“sexual madness”)

First of all punks, in the group Leitoh Lychee , Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda, which had met in New York although originating in the same suburbs of Tokyo, creates Cibo Matto in 1994. Their music is eclectic and cosmopolitan, sometimes pop, sometimes funk, salsa, easy-listening, electro, rock'n'roll, etc Their universe made of frequent winks to their common passion: food.

In 1997, Cibo Matto will make an appearance in the first episode of the second season of the series Buffy against the vampires, by interpreting the songs Spoon and Sugar Water on the scene of the fictitious club of the town of Sunnydale, Bronze .

The group separated in 2001. Yuka Honda left two albums in solo and collaborates with musicians as various as Petra Haden, Luscious Jackson, Caetano Veloso, Dave Douglas, Susie Ibarra, Trevor Dunn and John Zorn. On its side, Miho Hatori forms Smokey & Miho (Worked-nova) with the guitarist Smokey Hormel.

Albums

  • 1996 : Viva! Woman
  • 1999: Stereotype has

Collaborations

  • Dougie Bowne (Lounge Lizards)
  • Douglas Dave (Masada)
  • Bernie Worrell (Parliament/Funkadelic)
  • Rick Lee (Skeleton Key)
  • Marc Anthony Thompson (Hope Has Muscle)
  • Josh Roseman and Jay Rodriguez (Groove Collective)
  • Marc Ribot
  • John Medeski and Billy Martin (Medeski)
  • Martin & Wood
  • Sebastian Steinberg (Drunk Coughing)
  • Zak (Buffalo Daughter)
  • Yumiko Ohno
  • Butter 08
  • Gorillaz

External bonds

  • the page of Cibo Matto on Warner Bros
  • words of the songs of Cibo Mato on KiwiLyrics

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