{"product_id":"connan-mockasin_jassbusters-two_2025_disco-virgin-music-group","title":"Jassbusters Two","description":"As a janitor polishes the floor of a dilapidated high school, a furiously jazzy bassline slips under a door and into the hallway. It's happening after school hours in the teachers' lounge. Someone might be smoking some confiscated weed. Dressed in leather, mullet blowing in the wind, the members of the music department led by Connan Mockasin adjust their garters before the serious stuff begins. Taken from the same fictional universe as Jassbusters released in 2018, the aptly named Jassbusters Two is a languid counterpart to its predecessor. Both albums were recorded by a fictional group of teachers for the largely unreleased TV miniseries Bost'n'n Dobs'n, conceived, directed, and starring Connan Mockasin himself. In the mists of 2016, Jassbusters took shape in Paris, and Jassbusters Two materialized shortly after, in 2017, on the other side of the Atlantic. Connan explains that he wanted to keep making music as long as they were still in character as the music teacher band. At Gary's Electric Studio in Brooklyn, Connan, along with his sidekicks - Nicholas Harsant on bass, Matthew Eccles on drums, and Rory McCarthy, aka Infinite Bisous, on guitar - improvised during long live takes. Connan played the role of the guitar teacher in the band, who was pushed to become a singer but has no lyrics. So, like on the first Jassbusters album, the lyrics were improvised. While the band let loose with Jassbusters, this sequel is even more laid-back. Vocal improvisations – sometimes strange, sometimes crooning, and most often polymorphic sounds rather than defined words – flow around the twisted guitar arrangements. The opening track \"Jass Two\", initially macabre and oversaturated, later finds a smooth groove. The casual flourishes of \"K is for Klassical\" honor classical playing modes – Spanish guitar style one second, lute the next – though always with a nonconformist Mockasinian twist. \"Flipping Poles\" is a perfect spokesperson for the multitudes contained within the whole of Jassbusters Two, here as elsewhere, genres seep into each other in a sticky way: playful strings, noise nostalgia, and science-fiction sound effects. With its winding genres, a hint of sensuality, and just the right amount of madness, Jassbusters Two fits perfectly both in the lineage of Jassbusters and in the broader work of Connan Mockasin. The playfulness, surreal characters, and improvisational talent of the artist are fused together and spread in new directions with jazz intuition, country fingerpicking dexterity, and funk flow. Whether you are a listener, musician, or faculty member, this latest masterpiece from Connan Mockasin invites you to forget the routine, just for a moment, and settle into his syrupy, boundless world.","brand":"Connan Mockasin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57399528259928,"sku":null,"price":23904243.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0184923128802.jpg?v=1780125144","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/connan-mockasin_jassbusters-two_2025_disco-virgin-music-group","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}