Yama Warashi has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 11 episodes and was first played on 15 April 2016.

Yama Warashi is a musical project formed by Bristol-based Japanese artist Yoshino Shigihara with an eclectic and changing group of band members.

inspired by Japanese folk dance music, Bon Odori(盆踊り), free jazz and African music with a slice of electric psychedelia. Yoshino plays keyboard, percussions and sings songs in her mother tongue and English about mycelium, nuclear power staions and The Moon.

Yama Warashi (山童) means a small child-like spirit which lives in the mountains