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The Culture Corner: How Cibo Matto quietly influenced New York in the '90s

Cibo Matto's 1999 album, <em>Stereo Type A </em>
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Cibo Matto's 1999 album, Stereo Type A

At the tail end of the '90s, a duo of New York-based Japanese expats called Cibo Matto released their sophomore album, Stereo Type A. While the album didn't make Cibo Matto a household name, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison says Stereo Type A quietly subverted stereotypes at the time.

In this session, Morrison explains where Cibo Matto fits into the New York music scene of the '90s, specifically the universe surrounding the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal record label.

"You had this whole scene of musicians around the Beasties and Grand Royal who were obviously influenced by Brazilian music on top of a bunch of other genres and stylistic influences," Morrison says.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The web story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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Raina Douris, an award-winning radio personality from Toronto, Ontario, comes to World Cafe from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), where she was host and writer for the daily live, national morning program Mornings on CBC Music. She was also involved with Canada's highest music honors: hosting the Polaris Music Prize Gala from 2017 to 2019, as well as serving on the jury for both that award and the Juno Awards. Douris has also served as guest host and interviewer for various CBC Music and CBC Radio programs, and red carpet host and interviewer for the Juno Awards and Canadian Country Music Association Awards, as well as a panelist for such renowned CBC programs as Metro Morning, q and CBC News.
World Cafe senior producer Kimberly Junod has been a part of the World Cafe team since 2001, when she started as the show's first line producer. In 2011 Kimberly launched (and continues to helm) World Cafe's Sense of Place series that includes social media, broadcast and video elements to take listeners across the U.S. and abroad with an intimate look at local music scenes. She was thrilled to be part of the team that received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for excellence in music programming. In the time she has spent at World Cafe, Kimberly has produced and edited thousands of interviews and recorded several hundred bands for the program, as well as supervised the show's production staff. She has also taught sound to young women (at Girl's Rock Philly) and adults (as an "Ask an Engineer" at WYNC's Werk It! Women's Podcast Festival).