Summer 2002 Update

Have a nice summer!

January 2002 Update
Smokey & Miho

Monday, January 28
The Make-Out Room, San Francisco
Sets at 9:00 & 10:30

Smokey Hormel (Tom Waits, Beck) - acoustic guitar and vocals
Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto, Gorillaz) - vocals
with
Don Falzone (upright bass)
Jon Birdsong (trumpet, horns)
Joey Waronker (drums)
Steve Hodges (percussion)
Ganda (vocals)

Guitarist Smokey Hormel has long been a sideman extraordinaire, with Tom Waits (on Mule Variations and on tour), with Beck (on numerous albums and tours), John Doe, the Blasters, R.L Burnside, K.D. Lang, Johnny Cash, Mick Jagger, and even 'The Cowboy's Sweetheart" Patsy Montana. With The Radio Ranch Straight Shooters, he scored music for the David Lynch films The Cowboy and the Frenchmen (1987) and The Straight Story (1999).

Miho Hatori, singer and lyricist of Cibo Matto, has also sung with artists as diverse as John Zorn (on two albums) and the Beastie Boys (on four separate records) and is featured on the current hit single "19-2000" on the multi-million selling smash by the Gorillaz.

When Beck and Cibo Matto toured together several years ago, the two struck up a friendship based on their mutual interest and love of Brazilian music. With a talented all-acoustic combo, Smokey & Miho perform songs by Baden Powell, Vinicius De Moraes, Edu Lobo, Jorge Ben, Tom Jobim and their own compositions inspired by 60s Brazil - songs of lovers, liars, saudade (sweet sorrow), and Iemanja (the goddess of the sea).

Smokey & Miho are currently recording demos, and their first recorded original song, 'Ocean In Your Eyes' is on the soundtrack to Alphonso Couran's Y Tu Mama Tambien, recently the #1 movie in Mexico, and nominated for a Golden Globe for best foreign film.

October 2001 Update

Sunday, October 28 - Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City
Cibo Matto will be performing a 30-minute set as part of a series of benefit concerts organized by the Beastie Boys and the Milarepa Foundation (www.milarepa.org). The concerts will benefit the
New York Women's Foundation (http://www.nywf.org/disaster_release.html) and
New York Association of New Americans (http://www.nyana.org/).

Tickets are $50 and are on sale on Wednesday morning, 10/17/01 from Hammerstein Ballroom box office and Ticketmaster. nb: Tickets will sell out very quickly. Other performers that evening are Beastie Boys, The Strokes, the B-52s, Rival Schools, Saul Williams, Rahat Fatah Ali Khan and DJ Stretch Armstrong.

Updated Tour Dates - click here

September 2001 Update

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Friday, Sept. 21: Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto will be playing a special set with special guests at a concert to benefit the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund

Location: Tonic, 107 Norfolk St. (between Delancey and Rivington St.)
Manhattan, info: 212-358-7501

Tickets $25 / 100% of the ticket price goes to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Must be 18 years and older to attend. Tickets are available at Other Music, 15 E. 4th St, (212) 477-8150, at the Tonic box office 8-11pm, and at door.
Please note: Tonics web-site (www.tonicnyc.com) is currently not functioning.

Cibo Matto will be playing at approximately 10:00, along with Milford Graves (8:00pm) and Steve Bernstein's Millenial Territory Orchestra (midnight). We highly recommend seeing both Milford and Steve, as well as other artists playing benefits at Tonic this week:

Tues, Sept. 18: Emergency (John Zorn, Marc Ribot, John Medeski, Ben Perowsky) & Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Wed, Sept 19: Masada, Masada String Trio & Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos

Thu, Sept 20 : Arto Lindsay/Vinicius Cantuaria Duo & Dave Douglas' Witness & Sex Mob

Fri, Sept 21: Milford Graves & Cibo Matto & Steven Bernstein's Millenial Territory Orchestra

Sat, Sept 22: Improvisations with Erik Friedlander, Ikue Mori, Susie Ibarra, Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman & Eyvind Kang; Matt Shipp & Rob Brown duo; Bill Laswell; Oren Bloedow, Ben Perowsky, DJ Olive, Marcus Rojas & Doug Wieselman.

Cibo Matto recently played at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo and Osaka, along with Beck, Primal Scream, Air, Russell Simins, Moldy Peaches and many others. Highlights of the performances will be broadcast on Fuji-TV. Here are dates/times for peeps in Tokyo:

Fuji-TV / Friday, September 28, 2001, 11pm-1am
BS Fuji-TV / Friday, October 8, 2001, 1pm-5pm

Smokey & Miho short September concert tour has been Canceled.
SMOKEY & MIHO Guitarist Smokey Hormel (Tom Waits, Beck, etc) and Miho planned tour, opening for Money Mark and Lake Trout, playing music of 60s Brazilian composer Baden Powell and their own original tunes. Sugar from Buffalo Daughter was scheduled to dj between sets. Sorry, Tour canceled.

Tuesday, September 18, 7:30pm - Sorry, Show canceled.
YUKO ARAKI & YUKA HONDA at Tonic, 107 Norfolk St., New York City. Yuka
will be performing with Yuko Araki, drummer for Cornelius.

Wednesday, September 19, 8:00pm
TIMO ELLIS at Brownies, 169 Ave. A, New York City. Cibo Matto's drummer
leads his own excellent group.

Summer 2001 Update

Numerous well-known artists have joined Mike Diamond (aka Mike D. of Beastie Boys) in an action with the Save Our Environment Coalition to oppose President George W. Bush’s energy plan.

We encourage our fans to get involved with this campaign to demand a balanced, thoughtful energy strategy which will allow us to move us away from reliance on fossil fuels and nuclear power, not increase it. You can help by writing to your Senator/Representative via the electronic form provided by Save Our Environment Coalition.
CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CAMPAIGN

Updated Links Page - click here

Updated Tour Dates - click here

May 2001 Update

July 13, 2001 through September 30, 2001
Volume: Bed Of Sound
Henry Art Gallery - University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Cibo Matto have ten minutes of previously unheard music in an installation entitled "Volume: Bed of Sound." Sound works by Cibo Matto and 60 other sound artists are experienced through headphones while lying on "New York's largest futon bed." In an adjacent space, sound is experienced collectively through loudspeakers for casual or prolonged listening.

The exhibit, curated by Elliott Sharp and Alanna Heiss, includes sound, music, audio art and more from artists including Sonic Youth, Yamatsaka Eye, Walter Murch, Laurie Anderson, Arto Lindsay, PanSonic, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Butch Morris, Genesis P-Orridge, Alvin Curran, Ornette Coleman, Todd Dockstader, Ikue Mori, Tony Conrad, the Residents, Lou Reed, Vernon Reid, John Oswald and others.

For more information contact:

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave
Long Island City, New York
(718)784-2084

April 2001 Update

Updated the Tour Dates - click here

March 2001 Update

The message board moved - click here

January 2001 Update

Sunday, Jan. 21
Benefit for Petra Haden
Cibo Matto
Sean Lennon acoustic
& special guests

Petra, violinist/composer/singer (That Dog, solo artist, etc.), who sang with Cibo Matto on Sessions tv show, has huge hospital costs after being hit by a car.

Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St. near Bowery, New York City
www.boweryballroom.com

Friday, Jan 19 @ 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.

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Cibo Matto is looking for designers and artists who can conceive and build a cool stage design for their live shows. This could be a banner to hang from the back of the stage, or some materials to hang around various parts of the stage. It could involve lights, plastics, or fun fur... whatever you can dream of!

All submissions should focus on inventiveness, affordability and portability. The chosen design has to be something the band can carry with them from show to show in a small area of their touring vehicle. So, it should not be very cumbersome, heavy, large, or require too many small pieces that could get lost.

There is a limited budget available, so try to be innovative about materials that wouldn't be too costly. Be inventive!

Please write a detailed concept and send it to (Cibo Matto, Box 146, Village Station, New York, NY 10014-0146, USA ).
We will read all submissions closely and contact you if we think yours is one we want to consider.

Your concept should include:
--a detailed description of your design idea
--how difficult the design would be to make
--how long it would take to make
--portability, weight and dimension (when on stage and when in transport)
--a budget
--how quickly the design can be hung and struck each night.

We are excited to hear your ideas!