- Mockasin commonly plays with a Fender Stratocaster which he has modified by cutting off the top sides to create a uniquely shaped guitar.
- At the time of the release of his second album Caramel, Mockasin stated that he had rarely listened to any music at all for the past ten years, giving him space to focus on his own sound.
- Connan Mockasin’s real name is Connan Hosford, originally when he arrived in the UK it was with his band ‘Connan and the Mockasin’s’ a name he chose because of his skills at making Mockasin shoes out of dirt bike tyres and sheep skin. Eventually as he become a solo artist, he adapted Mockasin as the surname for his stage name.
- As well as music, Mockasin dabbles in painting, the cover for his first album ‘Dolphin Love Forever’ is a self portrait he painted of himself. His paintings are surreal, colourful, imaginative and childlike. He also often paints his face and body for playing live or promotional imagery for an album, sometimes this is is to channel a certain character within the record, in a slightly David Bowie sequel manner.
- In the album Caramel, Mockasin added some low pitched talking/vocals. He dubbed the character ‘The Boss” who is supposedly the central character of the album who is in love with a dolphin, a character coming from his very first album “Dolphin Love Forever”.
- When recording Caramel in a Tokyo Hotel room, Mockasin would often invite groups of Japanese girls to hang out in the hotel room when he was recording, they can be heard a few times on the record, most notably when chanting ‘Connan!’ At the end of one of the tracks.
Reading about Connan Mockasin certainly gives some insight into his very unusual character, however I think in terms of utilising this research, I will mainly want to focus on the album Caramel and the ideas behind it so that the visuals and design are relevant. Perhaps when designing the logotype, which technically would stretch itself beyond just the album, I can use more facts about him in general.
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