Artist: Connan Mockasin
Title: Please Turn Me Into The Snat
Label: Phantasy Sound
Genre: Folk
Bitrate: 163kbit av.
Time: 00:36:04
Size: 45.74 mb
Rip Date: 2010-05-20
Str Date: 2010-06-07
01. Megumi The Milkyway Above 2:28
02. It's Choade My Dear 4:05
03. Faking Jazz Together 5:12
04. Quadropuss Island 2:11
05. Forever Dolphin Lover 10:04
06. Muss 1:15
07. Egon Hosford 2:11
08. Unicorn In Uniform 3:40
09. Grampa Moff 0:25
10. Please Turn Me Into The Snat 4:33
Release Notes:
You can tell by the title that this is going to be something
extraordinary. This collection of songs may be in some way comparable
to the Beatles, MGMT and Empire of the Sun, but that would be
overlooking the way this LP moves little closer to the other side; the
side where Micachu & the Shapes, Deerhoof and the Residents reside,
along with a sprinkles of the surrealism found in the magic of a
matinee kids film sound track. This æothersidenessÆ becomes even more
evident when you find out part of the album was recorded at a haunted
house in Wellington û there is an underlying unease throughout. There
is nothing usual about this music. Curiouser and curiouser.
Connan Mockasin, a classically trained jazz musician, is the London via
New Zealand artist you were meant to hear in 2004, yet somehow side
stepped the popular culture marketing machine until latterly. He has
only been really noticed within in the last few years, with a 2009
collaboration with Fatboy Slim and a remix from The Invisible for his
latest single, the 10 minute mammoth, æForever Dolphin LoveÆ. And then
there is Erol Alkan, whose label is putting out Turn Me Into the Snat.
This is MockasinÆs fourth release and itÆs littered with atonal slants
and extreme intricate percussive patterns from the offset with æMegumi
and the MilkywayÆ initialising this discernible daydream. Next track
æItÆs Choade My DearÆ adds trumpets to the formula and soon gives way
to the sleight of hand delights that is æFaking Jazz TogetherÆ. This
music doesnÆt grab you, no, it infiltrates your awareness like clouds
sneaking up on a sunny day; you donÆt really notice its there till itÆs
too late and you are caressed by its fluffy marvellousness. This
feeling defines much of the album. There are additional surprises from
the upbeat fright flight of æEgon HosfordÆ and some songs that are
purely instrumental such as the tropical interlude that is æQuadropuss
IslandÆ, the moonlight flit of æMussÆ and the plucky æGrampa MoffÆ.
Rather than emulate his heroes, Mockasin has decided to be his heroes.
Matthew Herbert would be proud. Beautiful. And on album closer æPlease
Turn Me Into the SnatÆ, Mockasin is asking for you to let him, nicely.
You will wonÆt you?