Interview: Connan Mockasin @ La Boule Noire, Paris

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Introverted, naive, psyche, dreamy, simple and natural : these terms could easily describe both the music and the personality of Connan Mockasin. Connan Hosford comes from New Zealand where his fantasies took shape with his band Connan and the Mockasins. He finds refuge geographically in London and musically on Phantasy, Erol Alkan's label. He is revealed to us in France in the last edition of Transmusicales Rennes, then with his last album, Forever Dolphin Love, released in March. We met him the day before his concert in Paris at La Boule Noire, on April 8.

Read the full interview here: http://www.grandcrew.com/fr/editorial/interview-connan-mockasin-psycho-dreamer

Artist

Connan Mockasin

Connan Mockasin has the kind of deliciously off-kilter and gloriously idiosyncratic worldview that rapidly proves addictive. Once you’ve heard it, you can’t help but wish to go back for more. Having previously released records for kindred spirits Late Of The Pier and avant guard experimentalist Babe Terror, Connan has become the first artist to release a full album through Erol Alkan’s Phantasy, a perfect home for an artist who will undoubtedly evolve and reincarnate (and possibly re-invent?) over time. Finally finding his feet with his own sound, Connan, who had become “sick of playing to people who didn’t like what I was doing”, returned to London, to discover a collective of like-minded experimental artists such as Micachu & The Shapes and The Invisible, as well as Late Of The Pier’s Sam Eastgate (who Connan is currently working with on the side project Soft Hair), clearing a path for the once perennial outsider as one of the most vibrant and engrossing musicians on the map. You’d do well to clutch him to your hearts now.

(from the Field Day website)

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Venue

La Boule Noire

Dancing room, cabaret, movie theatre, la Boule Noire has a hectic history. But since the 90s, it has become an internationally-known venue, starring such artists as The Dandy Warhols, Metallica, Eagle Eye Cherry, Les Négresses Vertes, Skin, Queens of the Stone Age, Zenzile, Jack Johnson, Cat Power, Supergrass, Seb Martel, Herman Dune, Brigitte Fontaine, The Kills, Bloc Party, Fun Lovin Criminal or Parabellum. Its avant-garde selection, its hushed atmosphere and its 70s design make this place a unique and atypical spot in paris.

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