Cibo Matto

Cibo Matto (meaning crazy food in Italian, and pronounced {ˈtʃiːbo ˈmatto}) was a New York City-based band formed by two Japanese women, Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori, in 1994.http://www.last.fm/music/Cibo+Matto The lyrics in their songs are primarily concerned with foodhttp://www.allmusic.com/artist/p169814/biography and their sound has been described as a combination of "Jazz, Hip-Hop, Brazilian music, African Drumming, and Disco samples".W. DIRE WOLFF. "Cibo Matto Review." Web.
While the two founding members of the group are Japanese expatriates, they are not especially popular in Japan; and, the group did not gain nearly as large a following in Japan as it did in the United States. According to Billboard, their "minialbum" Viva La Woman! sold only 20,000 copies in Japan but over 74,000 copies in the U.S.BELL, CARRIE. "Warner Bros. Positions Cibo Matto To Break Its 'Stereotype'." Billboard: 13. 1 May 1999. Japanese producers did not understand the appeal of the group.CONSIDINE, J. D. "Band Builds Lyrical Bridge Between Japan and the U.S.: Cibo Matto filters blues, funk, jazz through Asian aesthetic." Los Angeles Times. 11 Aug 1999.
==Matrix==
Cibo Matto was also popular in the Matrix, as seen in the Matrix comic There Are No Flowers in the Real World, where Rocket's girlfriend Mona Thomas has a poster of the band up on her wall.
One of the band's most popular songs Sugar Water has the line "When a black cat crosses my path" in the chorus, a cultural reference paralleled in the déjà vu scene in The Matrix.
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