Cibo Matto – Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto (CD, US)

Russell Simins has appeared with Cibo Matto on a number of releases including the Tibetan Freedom Concert compilation album and feature length DVD, Super Relax, Know Your Chicken and a Yoko Ono remix amongst others.

With:

Dougie Bowne: Drums, Percussion
Timo Ellis: Drums, Bass, Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, 8-String Bass, Cymbal, Slamming Door
Sean Lennon: Bass, Electric Bass, Synth Bass, Drums, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Synth, Vocoder, Vocals, 12-String Acoustic Guitar, Delay Pedal
Duma Love: Vocal, Percussion, Beat Box, Turntable

Special Guests:

Mike D: Vocal
Dave Douglas: Trumpet
Curtis Fowlkes: Trombone
Smokey Hormel: Acoustic Guitar
Rick Lee: Hallway Horn
Billy Martin: Percussions
John Medeski: Clavinet
Vinia Mojica: Backup Vocals
Yumiko Ohno: Moog, Backup Vocals
Marc Ribot: Electric & Acoustic Guitar
Jay Rodriguez: Saxophone
Josh Roseman: Trombone
Sequoia: Backup Vocals
Russell Simins: Guitar, Vocal
Sebastian Steinberg: Bass
Marc Anthony Thompson: Vocal
Bernie Worrell: Organ

Compilation Producers: Miho Hatori, Yuka Honda & David Newgarden

A&R Supervision: Dani Barnard
Remastering: Dan Hersch & Bill Inglot at Digiprep
Product Manager: Lisa Liese
Discographical Annotation: Charles Norbeck
Business Affairs: Walter Boholst
Project Assistance: Cory Frye, Matt Abels, David Ponak & Masaki Koike

Management: David Newgarden david.newgarden@managethis.net

01. Sugar Water
Writers: Miho Hatori, Yuka Honda & Ennio Morricone
Contains the following samples: “Hung Up,” performed by Paul Weller, used courtesy of Go! Discs Ltd.; “Sospeso Nel Ciero,” performed by Ennio Morricone, used courtesy of CAM/SRL Recordings

From the album Viva! La Woman
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #45989 (1/16/96) MOVLP1698 (26/2/2021)
Produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake with Cibo Matto

02. Spoon
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the EP Super Relax
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #46478 (1/28/97)
“Spoon” Produced by Yuka Honda & Mario Caldato, Jr.

03. Sci-Fi Wasabi
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Stereo Type A
(p) 1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #47345 (6/8/99) MOVLP2934 (10/12/2021)
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

04. Clouds
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Stereo Type A
(p) 1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #47345 (6/8/99) MOVLP2934 (10/12/2021)
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

05. King of Silence (Dan The Automator Remix)
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

Remix of “King of Silence”
Original version on the album Stereo Type A
(p) 2007 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Remixed by Dan The Automator

06. Moonchild
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Stereo Type A
(p) 1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #47345 (6/8/99) MOVLP2934 (10/12/2021)
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

07. Flowers
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Stereo Type A
(p) 1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #47345 (6/8/99) MOVLP2934 (10/12/2021)
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

08. Stone
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Stereo Type A
(p) 1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #47345 (6/8/99) MOVLP2934 (10/12/2021)
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

09. White Pepper Ice Cream
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Viva! La Woman
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #45989 (1/16/96) MOVLP1698 (26/2/2021)
Produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake with Cibo Matto

10. Know Your Chicken
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Viva! La Woman
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #45989 (1/16/96) MOVLP1698 (26/2/2021)
Produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake with Cibo Matto

11. Birthday Cake
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Viva! La Woman
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #45989 (1/16/96) MOVLP1698 (26/2/2021)
Produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake with Cibo Matto

12. Beef Jerky
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda
Contains sample of “Vivre Pour Vivre” performed by Francis Lai, courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

From the album Viva! La Woman
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #45989 (1/16/96) MOVLP1698 (26/2/2021)
Produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake with Cibo Matto

13. Working For Vacation
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Stereo Type A
(p) 1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #47345 (6/8/99) MOVLP2934 (10/12/2021)
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

14. Le Pain Perdu
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda
Contains sample of “Caravan” performed by Duke Ellington, used courtesy of Sony Music

From the album Viva! La Woman
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #45989 (1/16/96) MOVLP1698 (26/2/2021)
Produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake with Cibo Matto

15. Artichoke
Writers: Miho Hatori, Yuka Honda & Kudsi Erguner

From the album Viva! La Woman
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #45989 (1/16/96) MOVLP1698 (26/2/2021)
Produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake with Cibo Matto

16. Swords And A Paintbrush
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

“Swords And A Paintbrush”
From the Stereo Type A sessions
(p) 2007 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

17. Backseat
Writers: Miho Hatori, Yuka Honda & Timo Ellis & Sean Lennon

From the Japanese version of Stereo Type A
(p) 2000 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
WEA International #10332 (4/25/00)
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

18. Vamos A La Playa
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the single “Working For Vacation”
(p) 1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. [Japan] #10484 (9/29/99)
Produced by Yuka Honda with Cibo Matto

19. Apple
Writers: by Miho Hatori & Yuka Honda

From the album Viva! La Woman
(p) 1996 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Warner Bros. #45989 (1/16/96) MOVLP1698 (26/2/2021)
Produced by Mitchell Froom & Tchad Blake with Cibo Matto

“Thank you so much for supporting Cibo Matto
It was such a pleasure to meet many people through this experience.

What I remember most was the faces of fans
So many twinkling eyes of fans, you know?
That was as beautiful as stars in the sky. It was so heartwarming.

I won’t forget Cibo Matto fans jumping and shouting “Shut up and eat” with us!!
You guys are awesome!!!!!!
It was a lot of fun!!!!!!

Everybody needs to shout sometimes and slide to the right, to the left, in this society.
It’s a good way to flow through life.
I am glad to share that moment with you.

I tattooed “Shut up and eat” Spirits in my heart.
They won’t disappear.
And the spirit and things I learned from it will continue to glow in the future.

Lovely Yuka, thank you so much for all your super wicked sounds and sharing the time.
You are the one who walked a wild side with me and found a restaurant called Cibo Matto.
The next door became Starbucks, the cross street became an oxygen bar.

Time is always moving and things are changing.
But I am still hungry.
I will keep eating and serving.

Cheers,
Miho

www.mihohatori.com”

“These are flyers I made for Cibo Matto.
I had a lot of fun making those flyers when we started Cibo Matto.

The one that says “CIDO Matto,” has a funny story.
I mistook the D and B (spelling), reading from an Italian dictionary, when we decided the name of the project.
So we were using this wrong Italian band name for a month or so.
It was a painful time to tell this truth to Yuka because she loved the technically wrong name.
I told Yuka, “Yuka, I need to tell you something. I hope you are OK…” with a serious face.
She was cracking up after I confessed!!
But it took a couple of days for both of us to get used to the new and correct name, Cibo Matto.

This is the birth story of Cibo Matto.

– Miho Hatori”

“I met Yuka and Miho at the Troubadour, L.A. Spike Jonze was there. At first I thought he was there bass player, then their bus driver. I guess I assumed that their bass player was driving the van…I am not much of a physionomist. I wanted to incorporate equally both of their personalities in the [“Sugar Water”] video, so I came up with this palindrome concept that would allow them to share the video in a totally symmetrical way. The song was nearly perfectly symmetrical too. You could play it in reverse and it would sound quite similar.

This maybe explains some of their secret power – the Japanese brain has a different organization.
Something in the organization of the symmetry, I’ve read. If Miho and Yuka would face each other and hold each other’s hand (left hand to left hand and right to right) by crossing their arms, they would form a mobius strip, so if you cut them in half it would create not two body loops, but a unique one, turning on itself.

– Michel Gondry”

“How did you come up with this one, girls? It’s just so tough for any musician to follow, ’cause your brand of magic is in every song you cooked. Hey, I’m ready for the dessert, sisters!

– Yoko Ono”

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