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Connan Mockasin Announces 'Jassbusters' with a Collection of new Videos

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Photo by Sam Kristofski ![Photo by Sam Kristofski](https://assets-global.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472b37f98a7d4ae47bd89e9_image-asset.jpeg) Photo by Sam Kristofski Connan Mockasin is the musician, composer and record producer from New Zealand who collaborated with MGMT, James Blake and Mac DeMarco. After his latest collaboration with Sam Dust on _Soft Hair_ (2016), Mockasin is back this year with a new and third record called _Jassbusters_ accompanied with a five-part film. The album is said to have been recorded live in less than a week in Paris at Studios Ferber during the summer of 2016 while _Bostyn ’n Dobsyn_, the film, allegedly took 20 years to develop and only took 10 days to shoot in Los Angeles. “Con Conn Is Impatient” is the first single from the record and comes with a video clip from the film in which Mockasin plays fictional music teacher, Bostyn, and his friend Blake Pryor plays the music student, Dobsyn. Seeing them both in the video wearing what you could only define as very bad wigs is pretty funny but the song is perfectly silky smooth and mellow. You can watch the video above. Below is the second single from the record, _Charlotte’s Thong_. One might wonder if the title refers to Charlotte Gainsbourg as Mockasin composed a song for her 2011 album, Stage Whisper, before going on tour with her. I’ll leave you with that impeccable, smooth as peach skin, nine-minute track. _Jassbusters_ will be out on October 12. Connan Mockasin will be playing this weekend at [Desert Daze](https://desertdaze.org/) and the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles on October 11 * * *