Morten McCoy took a break from enjoying the incredible but fleeting summer weather of his Nordic climes to tell us about Kosmos

deathly ill

but by a stroke of luck he got the job as singer of the IMPERIAL BODY GUARD BAND in the 1960s and quickly became a real star whose reputation as one of the best voices on the continent eventually spread to the western world and even earned him a BBC WORLD MUSIC AWARD in 2007

“Ants From Up There”

and as such it's appropriately roomy – two 40ish-minute sides of long-form pieces for guitar and fiddle that follow their own winding routes to their own gorgeous ends

GREAT BARRIER - Repetition LP Goth Morten McCoy took a breakGreat Barrier is a project undertaken by Constantine Dino Karlis (HDU, Dimmer, Alastair Galbraith, Sonic Boom Spectrum, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Foundling) and two neuroscientist musicians he was artistically drawn to: Jason Kerr (My Deviant Daughter, Southkill) and Richard Hahnloser. The latters piano and synthesizer playing adds a minimalist jazz inspired harmonic flow to the bands idiosyncratic sound which amalgamates drone, improv, noise, dub,