# What happened to Cibo Matto? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060 "2004-12-10T03:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/1 "2004-12-10T03:08:23Z")
I bought _Stereotype A_ when it came out in 1999, and I love it. But they haven’t made a new album since then. Is Cibo Matto no more? ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/2 "2004-12-10T17:56:15Z")
I haven’t heard either but I must also ask, why was there no second Butter 08 album? ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/3 "2004-12-10T18:06:28Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > I bought _Stereotype A_ when it came out in 1999, and I love it. But they haven’t made a new album since then. Is Cibo Matto no more? I think Miho Hattori and Yuki Honda are working “independently”, usually a code word for “broke up the band.” Someone far, far more connected to the NY music underground would have to let you know what they’re doing. I too am bummed that Cibo Matto/Butter 08 hasn’t released anything of late. ---
**Author:** ![Jenny\_Haniver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Jenny\_Haniver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenny_Haniver)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/4 "2004-12-10T21:30:16Z")
I have absolutely nothing of relevance to add, and am only posting to mention that I know my chicken. You got to know your chicken. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/5 "2004-12-10T22:27:46Z")
Extra sugar Extra salt Extra Oriental Energy! ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/6 "2004-12-10T23:08:10Z")
Cibo Matto is done. Butter 08 were only ever a one-off project, though the record was brilliant. Since the breakup, both have been a part of the “Downtown NYC” scene, working with people like John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Marc Ribot, etc. Miho turned up on an EP and an album with Smokey Hormel under the name [“Smokey and Miho.”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/240962/ref=m_art_dp/104-0797806-8675915) They were doing a sort of ironic bossa nova type thing, and it was pretty good. Yuka has been more creative, turning in her solo album [“Memories are my only witness”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YSUB/qid=1102719953/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/104-0797806-8675915?v=glance&s=music&n=507846) in '02. It was ok - some of it sounded like Cibo Matto instrumentals, but some of it dabbled in jazz and “experimental” pretentions that fell flat. She just released her latest solo record, [“Eucademix.”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002PUHII/qid=1102719953/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-0797806-8675915?v=glance&s=music&n=507846) While I haven’t heard “Eucademix” yet, I hear it’s more solid than “memories…”, and it does feature a sort of Cibo Matto reuinion - Miho turns up on the song “I dream about you.” ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/7 "2004-12-10T23:09:43Z")
Oh - if you go [here](http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.asp?userid=ba6FABVAas&CTR=135459), Barnes and Noble has sound samples of all of the tracks on the Yuka records. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/8 "2004-12-11T04:30:43Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > Extra sugar > Extra salt > Extra Oriental Energy! No no no no no… Extra sugar Extra salt Extra oil and MSG! ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/9 "2016-03-18T16:20:45Z")
Looks like they got back together in 2011 and released [an album of new material in 2014](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Valentine). ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/10 "2016-03-20T23:13:27Z")
This is my absolute favorite kind of twelve-year-old zombie thread. Cibo Matto are great and I’m very happy to see new (to me) material! ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/11 "2016-03-20T23:50:47Z")
I can’t be the only person whose response is “hey, didn’t they play at The Bronze in one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?”, can I? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cibo-matto/279060/12 "2016-03-20T23:53:49Z")
I don’t think they’re gone. I still see them on my iPod.