while cibo matto was touring with beck, hatori and beck guitarist smokey hormel discovered a shared love of bossa nova and samba, which eventually resulted in their brazilian-styled musical project smokey & miho. other artists she has worked with include handsome boy modeling school on the album "so... how's your girl?", dj towa tei, stephin merritt's the 6ths, the baldwin brothers, beastie boys, blackalicious, peter daily, greg kurstin (action figure party), forró in the dark, john zorn, and the incredible moses leroy. miho has also performed solo and on october 21, 2005 her first solo album, "ecdysis" was released in japan, later to the american and european market. the song, "birthday cake," from the first cibo matto album was used in the xbox game, "jet set radio future."