Japan guys are really great making their own on such different music styles as Afro beat, danzón and cumbia. It’s already the coolest band in Japan nowadays.
My grandmother used to sing that Aizu Bandaisan a LOT! (We're from Fukushima.) Minyo Crusaders do it so hilariously good. I can't stop from smiling and laugh every time I hear the singing come in because I can hear my grandmother singing along to it in my head with this song... But instead the old-fashioned folk song from my childhood, it's with this cumbia/latin jazz instrumentation. I love it. These guys are incredible.
So glad Minyo crusaders made on Tiny Desk. I have been following them the last couple of years and have felt they deserved more exposure in the west than they were getting. Go buy their album. It’s awesome and helps the band! Thanks tiny desk!
I'm really liking these Tiny Desk at home concerts. I hope they continue for a long time. I'm really digging this band. Their music is fun and they have a terrific aesthetic.
I am a half-Japanese-American, and this music really speaks to me. It feels like a combination of the music my grandma was always playing when I was a kid (Enka), and some gorgeous, David-Lynchian rock music video meets old-western-dream. I am so happy I found this music! New favorite band for sure
1. Incredible stuff! I am in love! You are all such devoted and talented musicians. Thank you sharing your art with us all! 2. As someone who deeply longs for unity, love, forgiveness and understanding between Japan and Korea, Minyo vocalzations (referred to by THE SAME NAME in both languages) contain shared elements! This is such a wonderful reminder of the shared history between these two amazing faces of our human family.
Wow!! This is amazing and very emotional. It's also very interesting how these rhythms are so Latin alike. Almost like two extremes of the planet being totally connected by music. Maybe what we know as 'latin rhythms' is actually a result from other ancient music from somewhere else. Who knows!
We indeed miss seeing bands like this playing live, and dancing to those grooves🎶...it is lovely to see different cultural influences tastefully put together 💛
Something new, something different and something that's very, very good indeed. No idea what they're singing about but whatever it is it put a smile on my face and sent me off looking for more. EXCELLENT .... Thank you!
You guys are amazing musicians!! You're truly pioneers, your songs are a wonderful mix of the traditional songs (Minyo) and contemporary rhythms, it is really unique!! I don't have words really... Thank you so much!! I'm following you on Spotify and will keep supporting you anyway I can
Minyo Crusaders: Is this a pan of the Folk Crusaders, a extemely popular Japanese group around 1970 inspired by the folk revival in the US, as Minyo means folk songs in Japanese.
Wow! many commenters are MISSING the point of the first tune entirely. This is Japanese Minyo singing over an African Fela Kuti backdrop. Which is a sick concept! ( And by 'sick' i mean "AWESOME" ). How can y'all NOT feel FELA KUTI's spirit in this music? WOW!
Saw them live doing these songs in their first public appearance in National Marina, Maryland this past Saturday. Kicking off Cherry Blossom Week in Washington DC.
Such a pleasantly unique blend of sounds - it's like this complimentary blend of Latin, native American chanting, funk, and 60s surf, among other things. Very interesting and refreshing.
Tiny Desk Concertsで日本人初めてみた！世界中からあたたかいコメントあって、自分のことのように嬉しい！
Chai もいた。
Cornelius も
superorganismも
みんな早耳で詳しいですね！
教えてくれてありがとう！
本当に素晴らしいすね。中毒性ありますね。
Japan guys are really great making their own on such different music styles as Afro beat, danzón and cumbia. It’s already the coolest band in Japan nowadays.
My grandmother used to sing that Aizu Bandaisan a LOT! (We're from Fukushima.) Minyo Crusaders do it so hilariously good. I can't stop from smiling and laugh every time I hear the singing come in because I can hear my grandmother singing along to it in my head with this song... But instead the old-fashioned folk song from my childhood, it's with this cumbia/latin jazz instrumentation. I love it. These guys are incredible.
0:00 - Hohai Bushi
6:44 - Yasugi Bushi
14:36 - Aizu Bandaisan
まさか日本人の方もタイニーデスクコンサートに出演されていたなんて…！歌声も音楽も素敵です！のんびりと生で聴いてみたいなぁ・・・💗そして隣でこたつでみかん食べてるおじさんが何ともまたいい雰囲気出してます笑！同じ日本人、応援しています！！素敵な時間をありがとうございます☺
地方の集会所の感じが出ていて凄く楽しい🎶
Kotatsu is really heaven
So glad Minyo crusaders made on Tiny Desk. I have been following them the last couple of years and have felt they deserved more exposure in the west than they were getting. Go buy their album. It’s awesome and helps the band! Thanks tiny desk!
i love this! i would've never discovered them if they weren't featured here on NPR. Thank you for providing talented artists to discover and enjoy! ❤
I'm really liking these Tiny Desk at home concerts. I hope they continue for a long time. I'm really digging this band. Their music is fun and they have a terrific aesthetic.
Is anyone else hearing a bit of Afro-beat in their sound? Love it!
Totally! Now that you say it!
Yes yes yes. This is beautiful
Some of the group members actually organise Felabration in Japan, hence the Afro-beat influence.
@@SamuelAkinbo Oh, I will have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!
Cumbia is derived from African beats.
This is awesome. Thank you!
I am a half-Japanese-American, and this music really speaks to me. It feels like a combination of the music my grandma was always playing when I was a kid (Enka), and some gorgeous, David-Lynchian rock music video meets old-western-dream. I am so happy I found this music! New favorite band for sure
Yeah they are really Enka groove
I love their life-affirming and organic muscial expressiveness.
Lol, I just posted the same thing. These guys are incredible
ナイスサウンドだよ！
オハイオ州から愛をおくっていま〜すぅぅ！
民クルだ！と思って観たらこのサイトと出会いました。このサイトで他にもたくさん素晴らしい音楽と出会えそうでワクワクしています！
とりあえず、深澤会館は青梅市？？なのか？でも窓の外にみかんの木？？？？？
1. Incredible stuff! I am in love! You are all such devoted and talented musicians. Thank you sharing your art with us all!
2. As someone who deeply longs for unity, love, forgiveness and understanding between Japan and Korea, Minyo vocalzations (referred to by THE SAME NAME in both languages) contain shared elements! This is such a wonderful reminder of the shared history between these two amazing faces of our human family.
No need to worry about your English. Your music speaks volumes! Great job!
Wow!! This is amazing and very emotional. It's also very interesting how these rhythms are so Latin alike. Almost like two extremes of the planet being totally connected by music. Maybe what we know as 'latin rhythms' is actually a result from other ancient music from somewhere else. Who knows!
Hay mucha influencia africana y árabe en los llamados ritmos latinos
Afro beats........Latino drums came from Africa
No es una coincidencia, esta banda siempre se ha interesado por la cumbia.
La música es Universal!!
This is amazing 😀 I hear fela, I hear ethiojazz, I hear cumbia, such an interesting mix! Would be great to see them live!
fookin fela mamn
I just did one week ago at Esperanzah! Really amazing.
Que buen ritmo. Traen el alma de samurai mezclada con alma de latinoamericano.
My family and I saw them at WOMAD in New Zealand last summer. Easily the highlight of the festival. Great to see on NPR!!
We indeed miss seeing bands like this playing live, and dancing to those grooves🎶...it is lovely to see different cultural influences tastefully put together 💛
Loving the Latin percussion section at the back! What an awesome performance.
Check out "Orquesta de la Luz"...
From early 90s
Fantastic! My head is still spinning. So many sounds. So much tradition. Just so good.
Oh my gosh, go Japan! This was like a fusion of acid-jazz-Egyptian-traditional soap opera Japan. Loved it!! ♥ ♥ ♥
man you got the description explaining this, don't invent
your gosh... ok boomer
今日行ってきたけどすごくよかった
Music is universal. Anyone can play any music they love. Thank you. So beautiful. Making many musical traditions proud.🙏
World class performance by the sax-man.
She seems so carefree. I need that energy right now.
Who knew Japanese fishermen were Tejano?! Loving this global music series!
That's funny.
Majestuosa forma de interpretar nuestra querida cumbia, muchos éxitos desde Colombia.
素晴らしい！！民謡とアフロキューバンがこんなに融合できて合うとは思いませんでした。
This is amazing, if you can hear minyo crusaders and frente cumbiero la cumbia del monte fuji is amazing and full of energy
This is amazing!! Love how tiny desk is showing music of all cultures! Much love to minyo crusaders
Wow! Thank you! Would never have discovered this amazing band if not for NPR. Feel like every David Byrne song has been leading me to this moment.
最高です！
大好きなtiny deskに民謡クルセイダーズ！
応援してまーす！！
Thx minyo crusaders, Good vibes from germany to all of you. stay healthy.
If you like this, also check out Kachimba and Oki Ainu Dub! Fusion of indigenous and trad music with non-Yamato language with global music!
Love their music, brings scents of far away lands and cultures but at the same time it sounds soooo familiar.
This is EXTREMELY fun! New favorite TinyDesk
This is amazing. I love this.
是非いつか日本に戻ったらライブへ行きたい！
久し振りに聴きに来ました。何度聴いても素晴らしい。癒される。8:38辺りの音もカシオトーン701ですかね？良い音でますね～。
Not to mention that Japan also appreciates the energy of Fela... feel it in the first piece? :)
Yes well spotted; I also heard some Afrobeat infuences amongst others
Noted
YES! Afrobeat all over
There was that bit of the B52s there in that first number. Man this is great.
16:45 is that Duke Ellington - Caravan? Awesome group. NPR is the best YT channel by far
Yep, nice.
within minutes i was smiling.. thanks for sharing and 2 the crusaders thanks for getting your muzak out there..
Something new, something different and something that's very, very good indeed. No idea what they're singing about but whatever it is it put a smile on my face and sent me off looking for more. EXCELLENT .... Thank you!
Japanese cumbia! This is awsome :)
Most accurate comment
NECESITO VERLOS EN VIVO EN MÉXICO YA!!!!
Hola Andrea, también quiero verlos tocar en México. Saludos amiga desde Ecatepec Estado de México.
@@mendozanieto7066 saludos banda!!!
sounds like Mexican music and I like the bit
también los quiero en México
Love! Minyo are background to every Japanese gathering and restaurant of my childhood in California but with that so cool jazzy Latin background.
先日ヒャダ体育の番組で紹介されてて、なんとTiny Desk Concertで聴けるとは！！！ちょーかっこいい。
素晴らしい日本の音楽が発する所には炬燵とみかんが欠かせない。
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing the gift of these wonderful artists from around the world!!!
めっちゃ嬉しい！いろんな国の音楽をもっと聞きたいです！
Now I need to find all of their music. Thank you, NPR and Minyo Crusaders!
I am Japanese. This is fun music. Great.
thanks NPR Music. Tiny desk is an excelent way for comunication between artists around the world, wonderful.
You guys are amazing musicians!! You're truly pioneers, your songs are a wonderful mix of the traditional songs (Minyo) and contemporary rhythms, it is really unique!! I don't have words really... Thank you so much!! I'm following you on Spotify and will keep supporting you anyway I can
I don’t have words to describe yet, but this is fantastic!
Will share with my Japanese studying students! What a treat to find you!
woooooh, thanks so much Minyo Crusaders!!! Love the music!
Extraordinary sax playing. Thanks for all of this!
Hermosa locura musical de muy alto vuelo si que saben interpretar
New discovery and I’m OBSESSED
Amazing music! Amazing Musicians! Amazing building! Go Minyo Crusaders!
Wonderful, just wonderful. Arigato gozaimasu!
Another beautiful and riveting performance from incredible musicians and singers!!!!❤🥰
カッコイイ！❤素晴らしい音楽❤日本人の私からしても、めちゃくちゃカッコイイ❤世界中の人々に知って欲しい😊ライブ行ってみたい！
とてもいいです〜〜〜！
This felt like tiny desk meets a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Yes! (was trying to think of what it reminded me of, you've nailed it!)
NO
YES
Did Tarantino use cumbia in his movies?
最高に踊れてかっこいい！
最高の ¡El mejor! Thanks Minyo Crusaders and Tiny Desk! & globalFEST!
Yasugi Bushi, my new favourite song
Que lindo suena ese bajo y la banda en general! Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷👏🏿👏🏿
Love everything about this. I haven't played the saxophone in ages and these folks make we want to run out and buy one again.
I’ve never knew them but enjoy from now on! I see they are in same scene like ‘seppuku pistols’’.
The good music stills with us, thank you!
Love that CHEEKY Caravan quote at 16:46
2:40 女性シンセサイザ・キーボードのソロがサンタナぽくてよかった。
Minyo Crusaders: Is this a pan of the Folk Crusaders, a extemely popular Japanese group around 1970 inspired by the folk revival in the US, as Minyo means folk songs in Japanese.
A year later and I've been listening to them every day! Thank you Minyo Crusaders for making my day better ☀️
Wow..Minyo Crusaders in tiny desk!😳 A friend of mine loves them. I should let her know this!!!
Wow! many commenters are MISSING the point of the first tune entirely. This is Japanese Minyo singing over an African Fela Kuti backdrop. Which is a sick concept! ( And by 'sick' i mean "AWESOME" ). How can y'all NOT feel FELA KUTI's spirit in this music? WOW!
I heard them today for the first time live at the National harbor and they were so amazing! I loved their performance ✨❤️
I can enjoy this stuff all day long
遂に民クルもTiny Deskに出たか！
実にめでたいこってす❣️
These guys rock!
Love this group! So cool! どうもありがとう for the good music 😊
OMG lovely to know this perspective!
Bob Boilan's continuing vacation.....! Love it!!!
so good!
This was amazing, thank you
とても楽しい演奏ですね！Enka+Latin！
Saw them live doing these songs in their first public appearance in National Marina, Maryland this past Saturday. Kicking off Cherry Blossom Week in Washington DC.
no puedo creer lo q acabo de ver escuchar!! no todo esta perdido GRACIAS POR ESTO!!
AAAAAA I didn't know they are here! I love them so so much! Oh my god thank you tiny desk, Crusaders deserves the hole world!
Like a slower, groovier version of ssingssing. I'm loving it🔥
Good morning Minyo Crusaders! Ohayōgozaimasu!
Great vibes! Warm regards from Brazil
I really need Minyo Crusaders in Peru !!!
カッコイイ❗️
Impeccably performed, beautiful and complex music. Visibly and audibly pleasing. And very dance-able!
Wow. Just wow!
Such a pleasantly unique blend of sounds - it's like this complimentary blend of Latin, native American chanting, funk, and 60s surf, among other things. Very interesting and refreshing.
Couldn't agree more