Yuka Honda

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Yuka Honda
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Yuka Honda is a Japanese-American musician who resides in

Tricky, Harper Simon, Beastie Boys, Los Lobos, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Mitchell Froom, Medeski Martin & Wood, Marc Ribot, Yoshimi P-We, Arto Lindsay, Edie Brickell, Vincent Gallo, Luscious Jackson, Dave Douglas, Bernie Worrell, and Caetano Veloso.[1][2]

Biography

Honda was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent a few years of her childhood in Germany and Denmark.[3] She went to school in Aix-en-Provence, France then moved to New York City in November 1986. She had some classical training in her childhood but never thought that she would become a musician. When she came to New York, she was writing for a Japanese food magazine.

In 1988 she hit her first stage at

Marc Anthony Thompson, Hope Is a Muscle. In 1992, she played Queen Elizabeth Hall in South Bank, London, supporting Arto Lindsay along with Marc Ribot, Bernie Worrell, and Brian Eno
.

In 1993 Honda met

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released their albums in 1996.

She was in a romantic relationship with

Tricky, Beastie Boys and Ween. Cibo Matto invited Lennon and Timo Ellis
to join the band as they started to tour frequently. From 1996 to 2000, Honda toured extensively with all three of these projects.

Also in 1996, Cibo Matto worked with the film director

Sugar Water, a highly artistic music video in the form of a visual palindrome
.

Cibo Matto broke up in the year 2001. Honda's work since then seems to be concentrated more in the downtown New York scene, working with musicians such as

Tzadik Honda recorded her two solo albums. In 2003, Honda collaborated with Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We, under the name Yoshimi and Yuka
.

In 2005, Honda worked for

3D animation which was directed by Robert Wilson
. She also sang on the Dopo Yume album The Secret Show.

In 2006 Honda played keyboards on Sean Lennon's album Friendly Fire and acted as musical director for the supporting tour.

In 2007 she co-produced

Irina Lazareanu with Sean Lennon. She also wrote songs and recorded with Edie Brickell on her new album The Heavy Circles
.

In 2009 she worked on Yoko Ono's Between My Head and the Sky as assistant producer. She is also credited with mixing the album with Yoko and Sean, and with "Pro-Tools Editing, sampler, e. piano, organ percussion."

In late 2009 and early 2010 she performed as a member of the reformed Plastic Ono Band including concerts in Tokyo and New York, and also appeared as a member of the group The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. She also performed improvisational shows with Mike Watt and Nels Cline in the groups Floored by Four and Brother's Sister's Daughter. During this period she became romantically involved with, and subsequently engaged to, Cline. They married in Japan in November 2010.

In 2011, following an eight-year collaboration with Petra Haden, she produced and performed on the album "Salt on Sea Glass"[4] as a member of If By Yes, a group also consisting of Yuko Araki on drums and Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu on guitar, with contributions from David Byrne and Nels Cline.

Since 2011 Honda has re-collaborated with Hatori for new Cibo Matto material, to culminate in 2014 with the release of the group's first album in 15 years, Hotel Valentine.

Discography

w/ Yoshimi P-We
w/ If By Yes
  • Salt on Sea Glass (2011)
w/ Nels Cline
w/ Dave Douglas
w/ Huntsville
  • Bow Shoulder (Hubro/Grappa Musikkforlag AS, 2020)
w/ Mike Watt

Producer

Remix

References

  1. ^
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  2. ^
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved November 12, 2018.
  3. ^ "Yuka C. Honda". Golden Hornet. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
  4. ^ Houle, Zachary (March 22, 2011). "If By Yes: Salt on Sea Glass". popmatters.com. Retrieved November 12, 2018.

External links

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