ARTIST...: Connan Mockasin
TITLE....: Caramel
YEAR.....: 2013
LABEL....: Phantasy Sound / Because Music
CAT.NO...: PHLP03 / BEC5161657
GENRE....: Rock
TIME.....: 39:56
SIZE.....: 64,99 MB
QUALITY..: 227kbps/44,1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: CDDA
RLS.DATE.: 2014/12/12
WEBSITE..: http://www.discogs.com/release/5325260
TRACKLIST
01) (03:03) Nothing Lasts Forever
02) (01:55) Caramel
03) (05:02) I'm The Man, That Will Find You
04) (03:14) Do I Make You Feel Shy?
05) (05:25) Why Are You Crying?
06) (05:25) It's Your Body 1
07) (03:17) It's Your Body 2
08) (01:17) It's Your Body 3
09) (01:42) It's Your Body 4
10) (03:51) It's Your Body 5
11) (05:45) I Wanna Roll With You
New Zealand via Paris / London pop sprite Connan Mockasin follows up the widely
acclaimed oddball-psych of 2010Æs 'Forever Dolphin Love'. 'Caramel' boasts a unique
brand of mutated, lustrous soul that was almost wholly self-recorded over a month in
a Tokyo hotel room. The new album explores different regions of MockasinÆs singular
galaxy, guided by his truly adventurous songwriting that favors reconfigured pop
structures with a skewed funk sensibility. 'Caramel' offers us not just soul but a
liquefied brew of blues, funk, ambient and folk with pronounced Oriental and Gallic
timbres, all laced with an uncanny air of bliss... 'Caramel' has hints of Scritti
Politti's exquisitely stitched soul, or of Prince - if the Minneapolis legend had
spent time in Canterbury, the epicentre of South East England's progressive psych /
prog scene during the late 60s and early 70s, where the likes of Syd Barrett and
Kevin Ayers began their own musical journeys.
And if that wasn't all enough to get your ears round, then it's a concept album as
well, kinds: "The concept is that it's actually an album," says Mockasin. "It starts
with the dolphin (from 'Forever Dolphin Love') leaving, and the boss (the man) who is
so in with love with the dolphin is sad, and then it kicks into the new album, and he
is happier. But there's a car race and a crash."
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