Connan Mockasin

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Connan Mockasin in 2011.

Connan Mockasin , real name Connan Tant Hosford , is a New Zealand psychedelic rock singer from Te Awanga.

biography

Mockasin first became known to a wider public when he and his music group Connan and the Mockasins, which he founded in 2004, - the naming is based on the fact that Mockasin supposedly has a certain talent for making moccasins - coming from New Zealand, is musically active in London. During this time the album, Naughty Hollidays and various singles are released. Due to dissatisfaction with financial and artistic aspects in his environment, Mockasin broke up the band and returned to his hometown Te Awanga in New Zealand in 2007 and from then on worked as a solo artist under his new stage name Connan Mockasin .

With the encouraging support of his mother, Mockasin released his first solo album Please Turn Me into the Snat in 2010, after having participated in various projects as a musician , which was number 39 on the New Zealand album charts. Just one year later, the album was reissued, supplemented by bonus material, under the name Forever Dolphin Love . In 2013 Mockasin released his second solo album Caramel .

In 2016 Connan Mockasin and Samuel Eastgate - pseudonym Sam Dust - released the Soft Hair project on the Weird World Records label, the album Soft Hair , as well as a single from it called Lying Has to Stop .

In 2018 Connan Mockasin released the album "Jassbusters"

The album contains 8 songs that have a playing time of 34 minutes.

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • Jassbusters 2018
  • Please Turn Me into the Snat (2010; Phantasy Sound)
  • Forever Dolphin Love (2011; Because Music)
  • Caramel (2013; Mexican Summer )

Singles and EPs

  • Faking Jazz Together (2011; Because Music, Phantasy Sound)
  • Forever Dolphin Love (2011; Because Music, Phantasy Sound)
  • Forever Dolphin Love 2 (2012; Because Music, Phantasy Sound)
  • Live at La Cigale, Paris 25th March 2012 (2013; Because Music, Phantasy Sound)
  • I'm the Man, That Will Find You (2013; Because Music, Phantasy Sound)
  • Connan Mockasín Et Devonté Hynes Myths 001 (2015; Mexican Summer)
  • Forever Dolphin Love (2016; Phantasy Sound)

Connan and the Mockasins

  • Naughty Holidays (2004; self-publication)
  • Sneaky Sneaky Dogfriend (2004; EMI)
  • Uuu It's Teasy (2006; Rhythm Method)

Soft hair

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ben Arnold: Connan Mockasin: the contrarian. The Guardian, September 13, 2013, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Tima Sliwinski: Connan Mockasin. last.fm, accessed on December 17, 2016 .
  3. ^ Daniel Clancy: Connan Mockasin. All Music, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  4. ^ Michael Cragg: New music: Connan Mockasin - Faking Jazz Together (Tom Furse Remix). The Guardian, September 11, 2011, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Jacqueline Smith: Album Review: Connan Mockasin Please Turn Me Into The Snat. NZ Harald, March 4, 2010, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Album Top 40. New Zealand Charts, accessed on December 17, 2016 (English).
  7. ^ Dave Simpson: Connan Mockasin - review. The Guardian, September 27, 2011, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Andrew Kennedy: Connan Mockasin Forever Dolphin Love. Drowned in Sound, March 30, 2011, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Harriet Gibsone: Connan Mockasin: Caramel - review. The Guardian, October 31, 2013, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Soft Hair: Debut album by Connan Mockasin and La Priest Coming on October 28th. Domino Germany, September 28, 2016, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Selim Bulut: Connan Mockasin and LA PRIEST introduce Soft Hair. Dazed, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Bernd Lechler: Eccentric electropop. Deutschlandfunk, October 29, 2016, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Juliane Liebert: Sweet disgust. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 21, 2016, accessed on December 17, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Kate Hutchinson: Soft Hair: Soft Hair review - Connan Mockasin and LA Priest do icky sex-pop. The Guardian, October 27, 2016, accessed December 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mockasin, Connan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hosford, Connan Tant (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand psychedelic rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century