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Pop quiz: Which of this year’s acts turned down the chance to work with Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour?
(a) Radiohead
(b) Ray Davies
(c ) Charan Po Lantan
Answer: For all I know, they all did. But the only one that makes that claim in their official bio is Charan Po Lantan. And their reason was great: they told him the song was too hard.
Charan Po Lantan is a sort of candy-coloured pop klezmer sister duo. If two J-pop idols were cloned and sent to live in Russia with Katy Perry for 20 years, they’d come out looking and sounding like Charan Po Lantan, but twice as old.
The Lantans will be playing the Naeba Shokudo stage, which is absolutely perfect for them. It’s the smallest stage but one of the best. It seems to either book thoughtful folky musicians or revved up acts with a world music slant. Charan is the latter and if you watch this video, I think you’ll see how bloody great this show is going to be:
http://charan-po-rantan.o0o0.jp
