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What's the difference between recording music in the studio and playing it live? According to Cibo Matto lead singer Miho Hatori, it's like "mama and dad." The funk-inducing, sweet-sounding Japanese American band from New York City is coming to Boston next Thursday, Nov. 18, opening for Live. Recently we talked to Hatori about the band, their ongoing tour and why she calls Cibo Matto the United Colors of Benetton band...
...Miho Hatori: It's great. This time we are opening up for Live, so it is quite different our usual shows. We're playing bigger venues and playing for people who have no idea about Cibo Matto. Actually it is pretty interesting, the audience, they're like "What is this band...
...Cibo Matto and Live have distinctly different music styles. How did you and Live get put on a tour together...
...think Yuka [Honda, keyboards, vocals and other original band member] met the vocalist somewhere, and he's a very nice guy, so I guess it started from there. So many bands want to open up for Live because they're a big band. It's just amazing that Cibo Matto, a "weird band," gets to do this, it's pretty fantastic. The audience might not have any idea about us, but I think that's good, people need time to figure out whether they like it or not. We're very happy to play music for new people...
...Cibo Matto inhabits a strip of sonic territory between the hip-hop nation and the Land of the Rising Sun. The Japanese-American performing duo of Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda released a debut CD in 1996, Viva! La Woman, that was an irrepressible delight, fusing hip-hop rhythms with elusively poetic lyrics about culinary cravings. The duo's new album is more about vocal harmonies and hooky melodies. A few of the songs are four-ambulance conceptual disasters. But most of the tracks have a strange sweetness to them, leaving you feeling as though you've bitten into...