Gold Panda

Musicians on tour in Japan don’t get any more ambassadorial than Gold Panda. A Londoner who learned Japanese at the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies, ’SUP caught up with the golden one – Derwin to his pals – during a brace of shows in the country that’s fascinated him since childhood. The British Council even organized an event out there in his honor, while another grand British institution, the BBC, named him in their influential Sounds of 2010 list. (More …)