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

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?

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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