Connan Mockasin and his father announce collaborative album

It’s Just Wind arrives this month.

Enigmatic New Zealand-born songwriter Connan Mockasin has announced the release of a new album made in collaboration with his father Ade Hosford.

Scheduled to arrive on the day of Hosford’s 72nd birthday, the album was borne in to the realms of existence three years ago during the 2018 iteration of Marfa Myths festival following the advice of a crystal gazer who mused that Connan’s often discussed plans to create music with his father should be “made a priority, or you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.” The sentiment proved prophetic, coinciding with Hosford sadly falling victim to a sudden cardiac arrest, and so it was soon thereafter that Mockasin brought their creative plans to fruition with the enlisted help of John Carroll Kirby, Rory McCarthy of Infinite Bisous notoriety, Matthew Eccles and Nicholas Harsant.

Detailing the spontaneous nature of the project’s creation a press release elaborates

“With both label and medical sign-off, Ade left New Zealand on a desert-bound plane, armed with a children’s school exercise book of song ideas. Aside from Ade’s notes, the album didn’t yet have a definite shape. Travel-weary, knee-deep in first-night margaritas, and on the precipice of going to bed, Connan and his band spontaneously upped instruments and began playing together in the studio they’d set up to start recording the next day. And, in a souplike stupor of which he has little memory, Ade joined them, testing out bits of lyrics from his book, getting them wrong by accident, getting them wrong on purpose, cutting, sticking and ad-libbing through the fug, around Connan and Co.’s improvised arrangements, never quite sure of what the hell was going to come out next. When they listened back to what they’d captured on the 8-track cassette the next morning, they found that they had, somehow, committed the majority of an album to tape.”

An idiosyncratic and compelling blend of new age synths, sparse guitar lines and dry spoken word, hear album-opener ‘The Wolf’ below.

It’s Just Wind releases digitally on July 14th.

Words by Sam Wilkinson.

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