Yama Warashi - Crispy Moon

Released 27th May 2022.

Yoshino Shigihara came into 2019 needing a change. TheJapanese artist had been based in Bristol ever since co-founding the now defunct Maloya-infuenced raucous
psychedelia collective Zun Zun Egui. She then blossomedon her own across an EP and two albums of moremeditative but no less territorially transcendent recordsas Yama Warashi. As in her music, though, Yoshino hasalways had a sense of wanderlust and it was perhaps nosurprise that shed eventually want to move again thistime to London.

Moving to London gave me the chance to work withmore diverse musicians Yoshino says. And I wanted tobe here too because of the high creative energy, thediversity of the music and art here and the people wholive here.

The first material to come out of her relocation is a boldadvancement of her sound, her third album Crispy Moon.Recorded at the Total Refreshment Centre in London withKristian Claig Robinson, with most of th