Cibo Matto由两位出生在日本居住在美国的女娃Yuka Honda和Miho Hatori组成,此外还有三位成员是负责吉他,贝司,鼓。如果组成双主音的摇滚乐队的话到是非常容易的。但他们的风格不仅仅限制在摇滚的风格上,还融合了acid jazz, hip-hop, trip-hop, punk, funk, ,...`等音乐元素,其中一位女成员还会摆弄键盘和一些合成器,这是比较有难得的 。此外他们的说唱和演唱风格都很有自己的鲜明特色,且旋律也很流畅悦耳,有流行的趋势。(摘自幽声隧道)
by Jason Ankeny
A Japanese-born duo relocated to New York and christened with an Italian band name, Cibo Mattos music mirrored the melting-pot aesthetics of their origins, resulting in a heady brew of funk samples, hip-hop rhythms, tape loops, and fractured pop melodies all topped off by surreal narratives sung in a combination of French and broken English. Cibo Matto comprised vocalist Miho Hatori and keyboardist/sampler Yuka Honda, a pair of expatriate Japanese women who arrived in the U.S. independently. Honda, a onetime member of Brooklyn Funk Essentials, settled in New York in 1987, and Hatori, an alum of the Tokyo rap unit Kimidori and a former club DJ, followed six years later. After meeting in 1994, they first teamed in the Boredoms-inspired noise outfit Leitoh Lychee (translated as frozen lychee nut); after that bands breakup, the duo formed Cibo Matto, Italian for food madness (their love of culinary delights quickly becoming the stuff of legend).
The group soon emerged as a sensation among the Lower Manhattan hipster elite, gaining fame for their incendiary live shows backed by guests including the Lounge Lizards Dougie Bowne (Hondas ex-husband), Bernie Worrell, Masadas Dave Douglas, and Skeleton Keys Rick Lee. After a pair of acclaimed 1995 independent singles, Birthday Cake and Know Your Chicken, Cibo Matto signed to Warner Bros., surfacing in 1996 with the Mitchell Froom/Tchad Blake-produced Viva! La Woman, a delirious, stunningly inventive record celebrating love, food, and love of food. After touring with guest 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, 1999s Stereo Type A. A few years later, the group disbanded, with Hatori collaborating with Smokey Hormel and the Gorillaz, and Honda producing Sean Lennons Into The Sun; working on her solo albums; and collaborating with the Boredoms Yoshimi on the album Flower With No Color.
by Jason Ankeny
A Japanese-born duo relocated to New York and christened with an Italian band name, Cibo Mattos music mirrored the melting-pot aesthetics of their origins, resulting in a heady brew of funk samples, hip-hop rhythms, tape loops, and fractured pop melodies all topped off by surreal narratives sung in a combination of French and broken English. Cibo Matto comprised vocalist Miho Hatori and keyboardist/sampler Yuka Honda, a pair of expatriate Japanese women who arrived in the U.S. independently. Honda, a onetime member of Brooklyn Funk Essentials, settled in New York in 1987, and Hatori, an alum of the Tokyo rap unit Kimidori and a former club DJ, followed six years later. After meeting in 1994, they first teamed in the Boredoms-inspired noise outfit Leitoh Lychee (translated as frozen lychee nut); after that bands breakup, the duo formed Cibo Matto, Italian for food madness (their love of culinary delights quickly becoming the stuff of legend).
The group soon emerged as a sensation among the Lower Manhattan hipster elite, gaining fame for their incendiary live shows backed by guests including the Lounge Lizards Dougie Bowne (Hondas ex-husband), Bernie Worrell, Masadas Dave Douglas, and Skeleton Keys Rick Lee. After a pair of acclaimed 1995 independent singles, Birthday Cake and Know Your Chicken, Cibo Matto signed to Warner Bros., surfacing in 1996 with the Mitchell Froom/Tchad Blake-produced Viva! La Woman, a delirious, stunningly inventive record celebrating love, food, and love of food. After touring with guest 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, 1999s Stereo Type A. A few years later, the group disbanded, with Hatori collaborating with Smokey Hormel and the Gorillaz, and Honda producing Sean Lennons Into The Sun; working on her solo albums; and collaborating with the Boredoms Yoshimi on the album Flower With No Color.