Catalog Number: MAIS059LP Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 5050580822184 Gilles Peterson: "Fascinating... love this. Thoroughly recommended" The Observer: "The focus is on great grooves and fine playing. A band to seek out." The Guardian: "Delightfully quirky album of folk songs reimagined from Afrobeat to reggae" The Times: "Minyo Crusaders sound like nothing else lurking on your Spotify playlist" (PRESS FOR PREVIOUS ALBUM) Minyo Crusaders return with theiir highly anticipated sophomore album TOUR OF JAPAN following on from their debut that has sold 4k on vinyl since release and their runaway single smash 'Cumbia Del Monte Fuji' that has almost hit 5million streams on Spotify. Since the release of their debut in 2019 the band have toured Europe four times playing major European festivals such as Roskilde, Best Kept Secret, Green Man Festival, WOMAD, Fusion, Les Escales, Lowlands and many, many more, succesfully road-testing the songs from this album. On this new album which has been mixed by Mario from Frente Cumbiero, Minyo have finessed their winning formula of adapting ancient Japanese folk somgs to global rhythms with influences this time from Ethiopia, boogaloo, salsa, West Africa and jazz. Says band-leader Katsumi: "The concept of this album is the sea with various expressions". 04.09 SINGLE RELEASE Kaigara Bushi 25.09 SINGLE RELEASE Soran-Bushi 18.10 ALBUM RELEASE w/ Kiso-Bushi as focus track