Connan Mockasin, Brooklyn Vegan at Red 7, Saturday 15 March 2014, SXSW 2014

Connan started with a chatty opening asking who everyone had seen at this year's SXSW, and apologising for his drunkenness the previous night. He opened the set of mellow, experimental, hypnotic freak out tunes with a track from his album, channeling Prince, and in the process pushing some of the audience into ecstatic meltdown.

The keyboard player and Connan had a bit of a sit down during the tuned out guitar solos. The long songs and short set meant that when he said "We haven't got long left", it was only after two songs. Overall, the band only played three or four songs which were all largely instrumental

Other SXSW 2014 reviews from Broken Biscuit Records:
Damon Albarn
Gruff Rhys
Woman’s Hour
Wolf Alice

Jeremy Messersmith