Minyo Crusaders
(Mais Um)
‘Fascinating… love this. Thoroughly recommended’ Gilles Peterson
Minyo Crusaders rework historic Japanese folk songs (min’yō) with Latin, African, Caribbean and Asian rhythms on their debut album “Echoes of Japan”, released on Mais Um.
“For Japanese people, min’yō is both the closest, and most distant, folk music” explains band-leader Katsumi Tanaka: “We may not feel it in our daily, urban lives, yet the melodies, the style of singing and the rhythm of the taiko drums are engrained in our DNA”.