Cibo Matto

   
Artist: Cibo Matto

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 19


   
 Super Relax

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9

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A Japanese-born duo resettled to New York and christened with an Italian ring name, Cibo Matto's music mirrored the melting pot aesthetics of their origins, resulting in a intoxicating brew of funk samples, hip-hop rhythms, tape loops, and fractured pop melodies all topped off by surrealistic narratives song in a combination of French and broken English. Cibo Matto comprised vocaliser Miho Hatori and keyboardist/sampler Yuka Honda, a geminate of expatriate Japanese women wHO arrived in the U.S. independently. Honda, a quondam member of Brooklyn Funk Essentials, settled in New York in 1987, and Hatori, an ammonium alum of the Tokyo hip-hop unit Kimidori and a former club DJ, followed sestet age later. After coming together in 1994, they number one teamed in the Boredoms-inspired noise turnout Leitoh Lychee (translated as "frozen lichee crank"); afterwards that band's breakup, the duo formed Cibo Matto, Italian for "solid food madness" (their lovemaking of culinary delights quick becoming the stuff of fable).


The mathematical group soon emerged as a sensation among the Lower Manhattan flower child elite group, gaining fame for their incendiary live shows backed by guests including the Lounge Lizards' Dougie Bowne (Honda's ex), Bernie Worrell, Masada's Dave Douglas, and Skeleton Key's Rick Lee. After a geminate of acclaimed 1995 independent singles, "Birthday Cake" and "Live Your Chicken," Cibo Matto gestural to Warner Bros., surfacing in 1996 with the Mitchell Froom/Tchad Blake-produced Viva voce! La Woman, a mad, spectacularly inventive record celebrating beloved, food, and love of nutrient. After touring with node bassist Sean Lennon and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion drummer Russell Simins, the EP Super Relax followed in 1997. Lennon, percussionist Duma Love, and drummer Timo Ellis were installed as full-time members for the follow-up, 1999's Stereo Type A. A few eld afterward, the radical disbanded, with Hatori collaborating with Smokey Hormel and the Gorillaz, and Honda producing Sean Lennon's Into The Sun; working on her solo albums; and collaborating with the Boredoms' Yoshimi on the album Flower With No Color.