Connan Mockasin

Connan Tant Hosford, better known by the stage name Connan Mockasin, is a New Zealand musician, composer and record producer.  Hosford first found success as leader of the quirky psych outfit Connan & the Mockasins, who gained some attention and endured a short-lived contract with EMI imprint Regal in the mid-2000s, before connan found the pop scene too constricting and chose a significantly weirder path as a solo artist. Beginning with his 2011 solo debut, Forever Dolphin Love, Connan Mockasin became an indie critics' darling known for his love of jazzy, '70s-inspired soft rock and obtuse conceptual projects.