Yuka Honda is a Japanese-American musician who resides in
New York City
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. She is a multi-instrumentalist (mainly piano, synthesizer, sampler and other keyboards), composer, record producer, and co-founder of the band
Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto (, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Initially, the band's lyrics were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject ma ...
.
Throughout her career, she has collaborated with a diverse array of musicians, including
Petra Haden
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She is the daughter of the jazz bassist Charlie Haden, and is the triplet sister of bassist Rachel Haden (her bandmate in That Dog) and cellist Tanya Haden (married to ...
,
Sean Lennon
is an American–British musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon. Over the course of his career, he has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, The G ...
,
Mike Watt
Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957) is an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter.
Watt co-founded and played bass guitar for the rock bands Minutemen (1980–1985), Dos (1985–present), and Firehose (1986–1994). He began a solo ...
,
Nels Cline
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In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex Cline, Alex, a percussionis ...
,
Tricky,
Harper Simon
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,
Beastie Boys
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,
Los Lobos
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,
Brooklyn Funk Essentials,
Mitchell Froom
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,
Medeski Martin & Wood
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,
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (;
born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.
His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Wait ...
,
Yoshimi P-We
Yoshimi (born on February 18, 1968) is a Japanese musician best known for her role as the longest consistent drummer in the Japanese rock band Boredoms.
Alongside her drum playing skills with Boredoms, she performs the vocals for the all female ...
,
Arto Lindsay
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,
Edie Brickell
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,
Vincent Gallo
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,
Luscious Jackson
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The original band consisted of Jill Cunniff (vocals, bass), Gabby Glaser (vocals, guit ...
,
Dave Douglas,
Bernie Worrell
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, and
Caetano Veloso
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.
Biography
Honda was born in
Tokyo
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, Japan and spent a few years of her childhood in
Germany
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and
Denmark
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, song_type = National and royal anthem
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...
. She went to school in
Aix-en-Provence
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, France then moved to
New York City
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in November 1986. She had some classical training in her childhood but never thought that she would become a musician. When she came to
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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* '' ...
, she was writing for a
Japanese
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* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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food magazine.
In 1988 she hit her first stage at
CBGB's
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as a keyboard player with
Greg Cohen
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Career
Cohen plays traditional jazz and other styles, includi ...
and Michael Blair. In 1989, she started the band "The Flaming Hoops" with boyfriend, then husband Dougie Bowne, E.J. Rodriguez, and
Erik Sanko
Erik Sanko (born 27 September 1963) is a bass player from New York who has played in The Lounge Lizards and currently active in Skeleton Key.
Biography
In the past he also worked with notable musicians including Marc Ribot, John Cale, Yoko Ono, ...
and recorded a self-titled album on which she plays a duet with
Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of M ...
. In 1990 she joined
Jazz Passengers
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The band grew out of a partnership between Nathanson and Fowlkes in 1987, after the two had played with John Lurie's band ...
in their musical play "Jazz Passengers in Egypt", and she appeared in their live album ''Live at Knitting Factory''. She also joined a live hip-hop band "Rhythm Method", then a funk band
Brooklyn Funk Essentials, but her main focus was the band she started with husband Dougie Bowne and
Marc Anthony Thompson, Hope Is a Muscle. In 1992, she played
Queen Elizabeth Hall
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The ...
in South Bank, London, supporting
Arto Lindsay
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along with
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (;
born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.
His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Wait ...
,
Bernie Worrell
George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll ...
, and
Brian Eno
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.
In 1993 Honda met
Miho Hatori
is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician. She is best known as a solo artist, co-founder of New York City band Cibo Matto, and as the first person to provide the voice of Noodle in the virtual band Gorillaz, as well as for her work with th ...
while working with the band Leitoh Lychee.
The two formed their own band,
Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto (, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Initially, the band's lyrics were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject ma ...
, in March 1994, by which time Honda had divorced Bowne. The unique formation of the band in which Hatori was the singer who sang all the songs in relation to food and love, and Honda was the only instrumentalist where she played live electronics and made the sound of a full band, generated a quick sensation in the city, and they signed the record deal with
Warner Brothers
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before the year was over. In 1995, they recorded their debut album ''
Viva! La Woman
''Viva! La Woman'' is the debut studio album by the band Cibo Matto, released on January 16, 1996, by Warner Bros. Records.
The tracks "Birthday Cake" and "Know Your Chicken" were first released as singles in 1995. Following the release of ''Viva ...
'' with
Mitchell Froom
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and
Tchad Blake
Tchad Blake (born 1955) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixer and musician.
A native of Baytown, Texas, he has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including Al Green, American Music Club, Ani DiFranco, Apartment 26, Arct ...
. That year they met Russell Simins when they opened for
Blues Explosion
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, and started the band
Butter 08 with
Mike Mills
Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of R.E.M., hi ...
,
Evan Bernard
Evan Bernard is an American director of commercials and music videos who has directed videos for artists such as Moby, the Beastie Boys, Green Day, Lit, Cibo Matto and many others.
Life and career
After studying advertising design at Syrac ...
, and Rick Lee. Honda produced their self-titled album with Simins. Both
Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto (, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Initially, the band's lyrics were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject ma ...
and
Butter 08 released their albums in 1996.
She was in a romantic relationship with
Sean Lennon
is an American–British musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon. Over the course of his career, he has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, The G ...
from 1996 to 2000 and produced his 1998 album ''
Into the Sun''. The two met when Honda remixed
Yoko Ono
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Ono grew up i ...
's song "Talking to the Universe" (from the album ''Rising''), along with
Thurston Moore
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,
Tricky,
Beastie Boys
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and
Ween
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. Cibo Matto invited Lennon and
Timo Ellis
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In 1997 Ellis and Sean Lennon joined Cibo Matto. As a quartet (Yuka Honda, Miho Hatori, Ellis, ...
to join the band as they started to tour frequently. From 1996 to 2000, Honda toured extensively with all three of these projects.
Also in 1996, Cibo Matto worked with the film director
Michel Gondry
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on their single
Sugar Water, a highly artistic music video in the form of a visual
palindrome
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.
Cibo Matto broke up in the year 2001. Honda's work since then seems to be concentrated more in the downtown New York scene, working with musicians such as
Dave Douglas,
Susie Ibarra,
Vincent Gallo
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,
Trevor Dunn
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,
Jim O'Rourke, and
John Zorn
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, for whose label
Tzadik
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Honda recorded her two solo albums. In 2003, Honda collaborated with
Boredoms
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drummer
Yoshimi P-We
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Alongside her drum playing skills with Boredoms, she performs the vocals for the all female ...
, under the name
Yoshimi and Yuka
Yoshimi and Yuka was a collaboration between musicians Yoshimi P-We (of Boredoms, OOIOO, UFO or Die et al.) and Yuka Honda (solo artist and member of Cibo Matto). They released their only album to date, ''Flower With No Color'' on Ipecac Record ...
.
In 2005, Honda worked for
Hal Willner
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at
Expo 2005
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for the
3D animation
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which was directed by
Robert Wilson. She also sang on the Dopo Yume album ''The Secret Show''.
In 2006 Honda played keyboards on Sean Lennon's album ''
Friendly Fire
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'' and acted as musical director for the supporting tour.
In 2007 she co-produced
Irina Lazareanu
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with
Sean Lennon
is an American–British musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon. Over the course of his career, he has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, The G ...
. She also wrote songs and recorded with
Edie Brickell
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on her new album ''
The Heavy Circles''.
In 2009 she worked on Yoko Ono's ''
Between My Head and the Sky
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'' as assistant producer. She is also credited with mixing the album with Yoko and Sean, and with "Pro-Tools Editing, sampler, e. piano, organ percussion."
In late 2009 and early 2010 she performed as a member of the reformed
Plastic Ono Band
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Lennon and Ono began a personal and artistic relati ...
including concerts in Tokyo and New York, and also appeared as a member of the group
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger
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. She also performed improvisational shows with
Mike Watt
Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957) is an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter.
Watt co-founded and played bass guitar for the rock bands Minutemen (1980–1985), Dos (1985–present), and Firehose (1986–1994). He began a solo ...
and
Nels Cline
Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been the guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004.
In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex Cline, Alex, a percussionis ...
in the groups
Floored by Four and Brother's Sister's Daughter. During this period she became romantically involved with, and subsequently engaged to, Cline. They married in Japan in November 2010.
In 2011, following an eight-year collaboration with
Petra Haden
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She is the daughter of the jazz bassist Charlie Haden, and is the triplet sister of bassist Rachel Haden (her bandmate in That Dog) and cellist Tanya Haden (married to ...
, she produced and performed on the album "Salt on Sea Glass"
as a member of If By Yes, a group also consisting of Yuko Araki on drums and Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu on guitar, with contributions from
David Byrne
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and Nels Cline.
Since 2011 Honda has re-collaborated with Hatori for new Cibo Matto material, to culminate in 2014 with the release of the group's first album in 15 years, ''
Hotel Valentine
''Hotel Valentine'' is the third and final album by New York City-based band Cibo Matto. It was released through Sean Lennon's label Chimera Music on Valentine's Day (February 14), 2014.
The album was produced by band members Miho Hatori and Yuka ...
''.
Discography
*''
Memories Are My Only Witness'' (2002)
*''
Eucademix
''Eucademix'' is an album by Yuka Honda.
Track listing
#"Humming Song (Alone Together)" – 3:44
#"I Dream About You" – 3:33
#"When the Monkey Kills" – 3:26
#"Limoncello" – 2:57
#"Some Things Should Be Kept Unsaid" – 2:57
#"Seed of Seed o ...
'' (2004)
*''
Heart Chamber Phantoms'' (2010)
;w/
Yoshimi P-We
Yoshimi (born on February 18, 1968) is a Japanese musician best known for her role as the longest consistent drummer in the Japanese rock band Boredoms.
Alongside her drum playing skills with Boredoms, she performs the vocals for the all female ...
*''
Flower with No Color
''Flower with No Color'' is the collaborative album by artists Yoshimi P-We (best known for as the drummer of Boredoms) and Yuka Honda (best known as half of Cibo Matto) as Yoshimi and Yuka. ''Flower with No Color'' was released in 2003 (see 20 ...
'' (2003)
;w/ If By Yes
*''Salt on Sea Glass'' (2011)
;w/
Nels Cline
Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been the guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004.
In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex Cline, Alex, a percussionis ...
*''
Macroscope'' (Mack Avenue, 2014)
*''
Lovers'' (Blue Note, 2016)
;w/
Dave Douglas
*''
Sanctuary
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'' (Avant, 1997)
;w/
Huntsville
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*''Bow Shoulder'' (Hubro/Grappa Musikkforlag AS, 2020)
;w/
Mike Watt
Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957) is an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter.
Watt co-founded and played bass guitar for the rock bands Minutemen (1980–1985), Dos (1985–present), and Firehose (1986–1994). He began a solo ...
* ''
Floored by Four'' (Chimera Music, 2010)
Producer
*Butter 08, ''
Butter 08'' (1996)
*
Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto (, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Initially, the band's lyrics were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject ma ...
, ''
Super Relax
''Super Relax'' is an EP by Cibo Matto released in 1997. Four of the nine tracks are versions of the song "Sugar Water" from the group's debut album, ''Viva! La Woman'', and "Spoon" would later appear (in a reworked version) on '' Stereo Type A'' ...
'' (1997)
*
Sean Lennon
is an American–British musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon. Over the course of his career, he has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, The G ...
, ''
Into the Sun'' (1998)
*
Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto (, Italian for "crazy food") was an American alternative rock band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori in New York City in 1994. Initially, the band's lyrics were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject ma ...
, ''
Stereo ★ Type A'' (1999)
*
Maki Nomiya
is a Japanese singer and musician. She released her first solo album in 1981, and worked through the 1980s as the lead vocalist of the new wave band . In 1991, she became the lead singer of the band Pizzicato Five. When the group disbanded in 20 ...
(of
Pizzicato Five
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), "Star Struck" on ''Miss Maki Nomiya Sings'' (2000)
*
Miu Sakamoto
is a Japanese pop singer. She is the daughter of musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Akiko Yano.
Biography
Sakamoto provided a cover of "Miu" for the January 29, 2020 Buck-Tick tribute album ''Parade III ~Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick~''
Disco ...
, "Beautiful" (2000)
*
Martha Wainwright
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Wainwright is the daughter of musicians Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III a ...
, ''
Come Home to Mama'' (2012)
Remix
*
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野 洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.
Ono grew up i ...
, "
Talking to the Universe", ''Rising Mixes'' (1996)
*
Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood (or MMW) is an American jazz fusion band formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards, Billy Martin on drums, and Chris Wood on bass. The band is influenced by musical traditions including funk and hip hop and ...
, "Sugar Craft", ''
Combustication Remix EP
''Combustication Remix EP'', also called ''Combustication Remixes'', is an Extended play, EP released by Medeski Martin & Wood. It consists of various artists' remixes of songs from their album ''Combustication''.
Track listing
# "Hey-Hee-H ...
'' (1999)
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HALCALI
, were a Japanese J-pop duo consisting of Halca and Yucali from Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. Its name is a portmanteau of and . Their debut album, ''Halcali Bacon'', reached #5 on the Oricon charts, making it the first album by a female hip-hop artist ...
, "TANDEM-Mutable Chromosome Remix", "Tandem" single (2003)
References
External links
Electric Dream Music Interview with Yuka Honda about ''Memories Are My Only Witness''
Yuka Honda on Tzadik
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Japanese electronic musicians
Tzadik Records artists
Plastic Ono Band members
Living people
American women musicians of Japanese descent
American musicians of Japanese descent
Japanese emigrants to the United States
Japanese women in electronic music
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American singers
Cibo Matto members
Brooklyn Funk Essentials members
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American women singers
20th-century American singers