Chips and tricks

Fourty Days

I'd rewrite every rhyme To keep you where you still belong

I think I'm good
After too much food
there I stood
suddenly realizing
perhaps I should
make it clear
and understood
that in consideration of everything else, 
I think I'm good

I think I'm good
since I played snood
more than I should
Mr. Roger's neighbourhood
taught me good
do things as I would
as best as I could
participating in 
doing good 

I think I'm good
I think I'm good
I think I'm too good sometimes
even gooder than I should
ever elude 
but sometimes being gooder than good
is just too good
and thus not good enough to
be just the right amount of good
So while in the mood
there I stood
for nothing less than
the best good a good man should
and would
be able to do
directly too
So  dude
just do what's good
and don't be rude
and take into consideration 
of everything else,
I think I'm good.

I think I'm good.
I think I'm good.
I think, therefore, I am good...

I think I'm good

High on a vibe

The deliciously off-kilter and wholly unique musical oeuvre of Connan Mockasin stands defiantly alone in the current musical landscape. Exploring the furthest flung horizons of pop music on his critically acclaimed album “Forever Dolphin Love”, the New Zealand born, current London resident synthesises the playful aural experimentation of pop mavericks past and present like Joe Meek, Brian Wilson and Ariel Pink but pushes the boat our even further, dissecting, inverting, and dissembling the very structures of the pop song itself, creating something endlessly inventive and completely beguiling, all at the same time.

This willingness to toy with the edges of musical convention is showcased to startling effect in “Faking Jazz Together”, its typically opaque title belying a gorgeous, leisurely amble through an enchanted forest of lush psychedelia, complete with dreamy guitar licks, liquefied salsa rhythms and Mockasin’s trademark alien vocals, sounding like a transmission from another cosmos, ghostly yet strangely affecting all at once. Tom Furse from The Horrors, meanwhile, extrapolates the beats from the original and relocates them in a wide-eyed, sprawling dub epic akin to Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, and renowned German producer (and Kompakt lynchpin) Michael Mayer builds a propulsive, tropical-flavoured anthem around Mockasin’s unusual vocals, with delightfully unpredictable results.

Even better, you can see Connan Mockasin in glorious live action this autumn, when he and his band embark on their own headline tour of the UK, playing dates across the country at the end of September. 

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Forever Dolphin Love

Faking Jazz Together

100 Days, 100 Nights

Tell Me

What's Wrong With Groovin

What's Wrong With Groovin'

Telling The Truth

Right On For The Darkness

Tell Her b/w The Dance Got Old

Tell Her

Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal

Is There Any Love?

‘Birds And The BEE9’ Out Now -
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Taken from ‘Birds And The BEE9’ released 17th October 2017 via Big Dada.

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Bye River

Lyrics:
I never know what you’re on about
The reason we don’t see you
The reason’s just a sound
But you don’t know that you’re just a sound
And me, you know,
It’s not complicated:
I’m for the birds,
Not for the cages.
The strength of your face
The length of your dying eyes
We’ve come way too far
To imagine what’s left
The strength of your faith
And I look into your dying eyes
And I look at your lying eyes

Is There Any Love?

Trevor Dandy

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