Miho Hatori

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox musical artist Template:Nihongo is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician.<ref name="2021 Bandcamp Feature">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is best known as a solo artist,<ref name="2020 Mixmag Profile">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="2018 FACT Feature">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> co-founder of New York City band Cibo Matto,<ref name="Ankeny">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and as the first person to provide the voice of Noodle in the virtual band Gorillaz,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as for her work with the Beastie Boys,<ref name="2018 Billboard">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Handsome Boy Modeling School,<ref name="Rolling Stone Greatest Hip-Hop">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Smokey Hormel,<ref name="LA Times Smokey & Miho">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> John Zorn,<ref name="2021 Bandcamp Feature" /> and many more.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Biography

Hatori expressed an early interest in music while growing up in Japan. She worked at used record shop Flash Disc Ranch in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, where she was exposed to many styles of music and sometimes performed as a club DJ.<ref name="2020 Mixmag Profile" /> Her earliest history in a music project dates to 1991 when she joined hip hop group Kimidori; she left the group in 1992.

Hatori moved to New York City in 1993 to study art; she quickly met Yuka Honda through performing together in punk/noise band Laito Lychee,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="LA Phil Bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a project that featured Hatori on vocals and violin played through distortion effects pedals.<ref name="2007 Chron">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hatori and Honda co-founded Cibo Matto in 1994<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and released their debut album Viva! La Woman in 1996.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The duo formation expanded to include Sean Lennon and Timo Ellis on 1997's Super Relax EP,<ref name="LA Phil Bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and "unofficial" fifth member Duma Love appeared on their second full-length, 1999's Stereo ★ Type A.<ref name="1999 MTV">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Cibo Matto broke up in 2001, but came back with a reunion tour in 2011.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> They released a third and final follow-up album Hotel Valentine on February 14, 2014.<ref name="2014 Pitchfork">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Hatori worked with her Cibo Matto collaborators outside of the band, contributing to Sean Lennon's solo album Into the Sun, as well as to his scores for the independent films Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Alter Egos;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> she also appears on Yuka Honda's solo album Eucademix.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

While Cibo Matto was touring with Beck, Hatori and Beck guitarist Smokey Hormel discovered a shared love of bossa nova and samba, which eventually resulted in their Brazilian-styled musical project Smokey & Miho.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Other artists Hatori has worked with include Handsome Boy Modeling School (on the album So... How's Your Girl?),<ref name="Rolling Stone Greatest Hip-Hop" /> DJ Towa Tei,<ref name="2021 Bomb Interview" /> Stephin Merritt's The 6ths,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Baldwin Brothers,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Beastie Boys,<ref name="2018 Billboard" /> Blackalicious,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Peter Daily, Greg Kurstin,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Forró in the Dark, John Zorn, The Incredible Moses Leroy,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Patrick Higgins,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and Smokey Hormel.<ref name="LA Times Smokey & Miho" />

Miho performs solo under her own name and various monikers.<ref name="2018 FACT Feature" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her first solo album, Ecdysis, was released in Japan in 2005, coming two years later to the American and European markets.<ref name="2007 Pitchfork">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2018, she released Amazon To LeFrak as New Optimism and Sequence as Miss Information.<ref name="2018 Pitchfork">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Her 2021 release, Between Isekai and Slice of Life, was inspired by both Édouard Glissant and isekai and slice of life anime––specifically in Demon Slayer, which she watched in 2020 during New York City's COVID-19 stay-at-home order.<ref name="2021 Bomb Interview">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="2021 Tokion Interview">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Release year	Artist	Title	Label	Personnel
1995	Cibo Matto	Cibo Matto	El Diablo Records	Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda
1996	Cibo Matto	Viva! La Woman	Warner Bros.	Hatori & Honda Template:Small
1996	Butter 08	Butter	Grand Royal	Hatori, Honda, Russell Simins, Rick Lee, Mike Mills Template:Small
1997	Cibo Matto	Super Relax (EP)	Warner Bros.	Hatori, Honda, Sean Lennon, Timo Ellis
1999	Cibo Matto	Stereo ★ Type A	Warner Bros.	Hatori, Honda, Lennon, Ellis Template:Small
2003	Smokey & Miho	The Two EPs	Varèse Sarabande	Hatori & Smokey Hormel Template:Small
2005	Miho Hatori	Ecdysis	Rykodisc	Hatori Template:Small
2007	Cibo Matto	Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto	Warner/Rhino/Atlantic	Hatori & Honda
2014	Cibo Matto	Hotel Valentine	Chimera Music	Hatori & Honda Template:Small
2018	New Optimism	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Phantom Limb	Hatori
2018	Miss Information	Sequence	Pioneer Works Press	Hatori
2021	Miho Hatori	Between Isekai and Slice of Life<ref name="2021 Bandcamp Feature" />	Virgin Music Label & Artist Services	Hatori Template:Small

Singles

• "Night Light" from the Ninja Tune album Urban Renewal Program (2002)
• "Baracuda" (2006)
• "Formula X" (2020)

With Gorillaz (as Noodle)

• Tomorrow Comes Today EP (EMI, 2000)
• Gorillaz (Parlophone/Virgin, 2001)
• G-Sides (Parlophone, 2001)
• Spacemonkeyz vs Gorillaz, Laika Come Home (2002)

Guest appearances

• Beastie Boys' "I Don't Know" (Hello Nasty, 1998)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Beastie Boys' "Hail Sagan" (the Intergalactic EP, 1998)
• Sean Lennon's "Into the Sun" (Into the Sun, 1998)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• John Zorn's Taboo & Exile (1999)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Spoken word for Handsome Boy Modeling School's "Metaphysical (A Good Day)" (So... How's Your Girl?, 1999)<ref name="Rolling Stone Greatest Hip-Hop" />
• Zorn's The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone (15th Anniversary Edition) (2000)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• The 6ths' "Lindy Lou" (Hyacinths and Thistles, 1999)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Atami's "August" and "赤い砂漠 (Hypno Ver.)" (Atami, 2001)
• The Baldwin Brothers' "Dream Girl" (Cooking with Lasers, 2002)
• Yuka Honda's Eucademix (2004)
• Towa Tei's "Teenage Mutants" (Sunny, 2011)
• Rap (as New Optimism) on Maika Loubté's "Snappp" (2019)

Remixes & Covers

• Rising Mixes: Ima / Yoko Ono remixed by Cibo Matto, Ween, Tricky, Thurston Moore (1996)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Cibo Matto covered "Je t'aime... moi non plus" for Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg (1997)
• "Start" (with the Beastie Boys) for Fire & Skill: The Songs of the Jam (1999)

Soundtracks

• "Ocean in Your Eyes" for the soundtrack to Y tu mamá también (2001)
• "Desire" for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009)
• "Fridge Walks" for Alter Egos (2012)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Film works

• Shindo (Japanese film)
• The Killing of a Chinese Cookie
• xXx: AForbidden Love Story (Diesel's short film by Alexi Tan)

External links

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