Miho Hatori Explained

Miho Hatori
羽鳥 美保
Birth Place:Tokyo, Japan
Alias:Miss Information
Instruments:Vocals, synthesizer, guitar, drums, percussion, keyboard
Genre:Avant-garde, downtempo, trip hop, indie rock, world music
Background:solo_singer
Occupations:Singer, songwriter, composer, record producer
Years Active:1991-present
Label:Rykodisc
Past Member Of:Cibo Matto
Smokey & Miho
Butter 08

is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician.[1] She is best known as a solo artist,[2] [3] co-founder of New York City band Cibo Matto,[4] and as the first person to provide the voice of Noodle in the virtual band Gorillaz,[5] [6] as well as for her work with the Beastie Boys,[7] Handsome Boy Modeling School,[8] Smokey Hormel,[9] John Zorn, and many more.[10]

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. 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,[11] [12] a project that featured Hatori on vocals and violin played through distortion effects pedals.[13] Hatori and Honda co-founded Cibo Matto in 1994[14] and released their debut album Viva! La Woman in 1996.[15] The duo formation expanded to include Sean Lennon and Timo Ellis on 1997's Super Relax EP,[16] and "unofficial" fifth member Duma Love appeared on their second full-length, 1999's Stereo ★ Type A.[17] Cibo Matto broke up in 2001, but came back with a reunion tour in 2011.[18] They released a third and final follow-up album Hotel Valentine on February 14, 2014.[19]

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[20] and Alter Egos;[21] she also appears on Yuka Honda's solo album Eucademix.[22]

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.[23] Other artists Hatori has worked with include Handsome Boy Modeling School (on the album So... How's Your Girl?), DJ Towa Tei, Stephin Merritt's The 6ths,[24] The Baldwin Brothers,[25] Beastie Boys, Blackalicious,[26] Peter Daily, Greg Kurstin,[27] Forró in the Dark, John Zorn, The Incredible Moses Leroy,[28] Patrick Higgins,[29] and Smokey Hormel.

Miho performs solo under her own name and various monikers.[30] Her first solo album, Ecdysis, was released in Japan in 2005, coming two years later to the American and European markets.[31] In 2018, she released Amazon To LeFrak as New Optimism and Sequence as Miss Information.[32] [33]

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.[34] [35]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Release year Artist Title Label Personnel
1995Cibo MattoCibo MattoEl Diablo RecordsMiho Hatori & Yuka Honda
1996Cibo MattoViva! La WomanWarner Bros.Hatori & Honda
1996Butter 08ButterGrand Royal
1997Cibo MattoSuper Relax (EP)Warner Bros.Hatori, Honda, Sean Lennon, Timo Ellis
1999Cibo MattoStereo ★ Type AWarner Bros.Hatori, Honda, Lennon, Ellis
2003Smokey & MihoThe Two EPsVarèse Sarabande
2005Miho HatoriEcdysisRykodiscHatori
2007Cibo MattoWarner/Rhino/AtlanticHatori & Honda
2014Cibo MattoHotel ValentineChimera MusicHatori & Honda
2018New OptimismAmazon To LeFrak[36] Phantom LimbHatori
2018Miss InformationSequencePioneer Works PressHatori
2021Miho HatoriBetween Isekai and Slice of LifeVirgin Music Label & Artist ServicesHatori
Singles
With Gorillaz (as Noodle)
Guest appearances
Remixes & Covers
Soundtracks

Film works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lobenfeld . Claire . Miho Hatori's Genre is Having No Genre . Bandcamp Daily . 26 July 2022 . 11 March 2021.
  2. Web site: Ramanathan . Arun . Miho Hatori remains avant-garde with latest single 'Formula X' - New Releases - Mixmag Asia . Mixmag Asia . 26 July 2022 . 19 December 2020.
  3. Web site: Lobenfeld . Claire . "Irony doesn't help me": Miho Hatori on New York, Noreaga and her solo project New Optimism . FACT . 28 July 2022 . 28 July 2018.
  4. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p169814/biography|pure_url=yes}} Biography: Cibo Matto]. Ankeny. Jason. AllMusic. June 1, 2010.
  5. Web site: Happy Birthday Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto, Gorillaz) . Magnet . 28 July 2022 . 5 April 2022.
  6. Web site: Miho Hatori: Ecdysis. 2021-02-05. Pitchfork. en.
  7. Hart . Ron . Beastie Boys' 'Hello Nasty' at 20: How Their Move Back to NYC Impacted the Adventurous Classic . Billboard . 28 July 2022 . 16 July 2018.
  8. The 200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time . Rolling Stone . 26 July 2022 . 7 June 2022.
  9. Web site: Hochman . Steve . Brazilian Rendezvous . The Los Angeles Times . 28 July 2022 . 31 January 2002.
  10. Web site: Miho Hatori: Credits . AllMusic.com . 28 July 2022.
  11. Web site: Berman . Judy . Spectacle's 'Grrrl Germs' Film Series Captures the Agony, Ecstasy, and Diversity of Riot Grrrl . The Village Voice . 28 July 2022 . 16 May 2016.
  12. Web site: Cibo Matto . LA Phil . 28 July 2022.
  13. Web site: Guerra . Joey . Miho Hatori stretches her wings . CHRON . Houston Chronicle . 28 July 2022 . 25 August 2007.
  14. Cibo Matto . The New Yorker . 26 July 2022.
  15. Web site: Pareles . Jon . CIBO MATTO: 'VIVA! LA WOMAN' Warner Brothers . The New York Times . 26 July 2022 . 28 January 1996.
  16. Web site: Cibo Matto . LA Phil . 28 July 2022.
  17. Web site: Kaufman . Gil . Cibo Matto Get Eclectic, Break 'Stereo Type' On Second Album . https://web.archive.org/web/20220728050718/https://www.mtv.com/news/vq8usk/cibo-matto-get-eclectic-break-stereo-type-on-second-album . dead . July 28, 2022 . MTV . 28 July 2022 . 28 June 1999.
  18. Cibo Matto . The New Yorker . 26 July 2022.
  19. Web site: Patrin . Nate . Cibo Matto: Hotel Valentine . Pitchfork . 28 July 2022 . 11 February 2014.
  20. Web site: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead . AllMusic.com . 28 July 2022.
  21. Web site: Alter Egos . AllMusic.com . 28 July 2022.
  22. Web site: Eucademix . AllMusic.com . 28 July 2022.
  23. Web site: 2006-08-09. Smokey & Miho. 2021-02-05. KCRW. en.
  24. Web site: Rabin . Nathan . The 6ths: Hyacinths And Thistles . AV Club . 28 July 2022 . 29 March 2002.
  25. Web site: Harcourt . Nic . The Baldwin Brothers . KCRW . 28 July 2022 . 26 July 2002.
  26. Web site: Moss . Corey . Zack De La Rocha Joining Blackalicious On 'Blazing Arrow' . https://web.archive.org/web/20220728054557/https://www.mtv.com/news/yn1rff/zack-de-la-rocha-joining-blackalicious-on-blazing-arrow . dead . July 28, 2022 . MTV . 28 July 2022 . 1 March 2002.
  27. Web site: Moss . Corey . Action Figure Party: All Genres Invited . https://web.archive.org/web/20220728054557/https://www.mtv.com/news/603uzi/action-figure-party-all-genres-invited . dead . July 28, 2022 . MTV . 28 July 2022 . 28 March 2001.
  28. Web site: MacNeil . Jason . The Incredible Moses Leroy: Become the Soft.Lightes . PopMatters . 28 July 2022 . 3 February 2004.
  29. Miho Hatori: Salon Mondialité . The New Yorker . 26 July 2022.
  30. Web site: Stosuy . Brandon . On collaboration and memory: Musician Miho Hatori discusses the value of collaboration, the role of memory in art, and knowing when to let a project go. . The Creative Independent . 28 July 2022 . 6 August 2018.
  31. Web site: Berman . Stuart . Miho Hatori: Ecdysis . Pitchfork . 26 July 2022 . 11 January 2007.
  32. Web site: Cardew . Ben . New Optimism: Amazon to LeFrak EP . Pitchfork . 26 July 2022 . 31 July 2018.
  33. Web site: Miss Information: Sequence . Pioneer Works . 28 July 2022.
  34. Web site: Battle and Coexistence: Miho Hatori Interviewed by Paul Ha . BOMB . 28 July 2022 . 14 May 2021.
  35. Web site: Watanabe . Yuya . Unveiling the Reason Why the Artist Based in New York, Miho Hatori, is So Captivated by Japanese Anime and Edouard Glissant's Philosophy . TOKION . 28 July 2022 . 24 March 2021.
  36. Web site: Cardew . Ben . New Optimism: Amazon to LeFrak EP . Pitchfork . 26 July 2022 . 31 July 2018.
  37. Web site: Hello Nasty . AllMusic.com . 26 July 2022.
  38. Web site: Into the Sun . AllMusic.com . 26 July 2022.
  39. Web site: Music Romance, Vol. 2: Taboo & Exile . AllMusic.com . 26 July 2022.
  40. Web site: 'The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone (15th Anniversary Edition) . AllMusic.com . 26 July 2022.
  41. Web site: Hyacinths and Thistles . AllMusic.com . 26 July 2022.
  42. Web site: Ima / Yoko Ono: Rising Mixes . AllMusic.com . 26 July 2022.
  43. Web site: Alter Egos: Credits . AllMusic.com . 26 July 2022.

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