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‘It was the easiest thing I’ve done’: how the dad of a rock star wrote his first album at 72


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After his father suffered a heart scare, psych-popper Connan Mockasin enlisted him to make an experimental EP. Who knew it would be such a breeze?

Fri 16 Jul 2021 13.00 BST

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Nepotism in the music industry is nothing new, but using your connections to get your father a record deal is surely a far rarer occurrence. However, that’s just what Connan Mockasin did for new album It’s Just Wind. The New Zealand musician, whose solo work is best described by the title of his 2013 psych-pop album Caramel – gooey, sweet and there to be chewed on – had long planned to make an album with his dad, Ade, but a bout of ill health on his father’s part focused him.

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“He nearly died from a sudden cardiac arrest,” Connan explains. “We got a call to come home for a funeral because he was flatlined for a very long time.”

While Ade was recovering, Connan met a psychic at a music festival who gave him a reading. “She said my dad had had a major health scare and there’s a project that I’d like to do with him,” he recalls. “She suggested I make it my priority or I’d regret it. It gave me goosebumps.”

The result is an experimental, largely improvised and moving album on which England-born Ade, 72, tells the story of “a young guy who emigrated to New Zealand and didn’t really fit in”. Despite having last played in a band during the 60s, Ade was flown from New Zealand to a studio in Marfa, Texas and began writing lyrics on the flight. As Ade sees it, the job of the frontman is pretty simple.

“When we got to the desert I wrote the first song in five minutes,” Ade says. “It was the easiest thing I’ve done in my life. These guys laughed like hell.” That would be album opener The Wolf, partly inspired by an old Playboy cartoon that, in Ade’s version, has Red Riding Hood asking the Big Bad Wolf: “Doesn’t anyone shag any more?” “[Connan’s] mother hates it,” Ade jokes, revealing he’s banned from playing the raunchy number at home. “I think it’s pretty catchy.”

Connan had zero expectations when making the album, which was mainly recorded after a night of drinking margaritas. “Everyone was a little jetlagged but we didn’t go to bed and ended up making the majority of the record that night,” he says. “Ade started singing and I remember seeing faces light up.”

Ade’s memory isn’t what it used to be and he has little recollection of his time in Marfa. He listens to the album “almost every day”, though, and has got on stage with his son on more than a few occasions.

He says he enjoys playing live the most and was introduced to James Blake at one gig (“Man, that guy is tall”). Despite returning to music after a 50-year gap, Ade has no plans to continue, happy to let this speak for him.

“I just cruise along,” he says, cementing his status as this year’s most unlikely rock star.

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