Kosmos Bremer-McCoy

• 1 Higher Road 03:36
• 2 Dream 04:50
• 3 Mere Liv 02:58
• 4 Hvor du er 04:32
• 5 Alting løser sig 03:03
• 6 Bøn 02:58
• 7 Blomsten du sår 03:22
• 8 Regnen falder snart 02:14
• 9 Vuggevise 03:03
• 10 Universal Love 04:48
• Total Runtime 35:24

Info for Kosmos

We’re very excited to share that Bremer/McCoy has a new song out today. It’s their first new music in 3 years, and it’s called “Higher Road.”

Morten took a break from farming in the Danish countryside to tell us about it: “We were in the studio, and very quickly it just worked out. Luckily, we had set up our gear exactly as it's set up live, so we could basically just play it. Somehow the arrangement and the pieces just came beautifully together.

“I think that's what I like the most about making music. Sometimes things just come together and it feels like that’s how it was supposed to be. I love that feeling. Me and Jonathan, every time we meet up, it seems we’re able to create a space that’s timeless and just transcend and focus on playing together. And when I listen back to the song, that's very much what shines through.”

If you get the chance to listen today, we hope you do.

We’ll have more exciting news from the Danish woods to share before too long—so watch this space.

Bremer/McCoy is a Danish duo of Jonathan Bremer on acoustic bass and Morten McCoy on the keys and tape delay. While the two started as a reggae group (believe it or not), their sound has transformed into an amorphous mix of jazz, dub, and neo-classical.

“Most of our songs have lyrics even though they are instrumental. Although some of our tunes are more conceptual and dub-like, most of our tunes are songs with clear melodies.”

“When it works for me,” says pianist Morten McCoy, “it’s pure meditation, pure prayer. Pure gratitude for simply being, without all kinds of jibber-jabber filling my thoughts.”

What were they up to? Nobody could tell—not even them. Bremer/McCoy recorded straight to tape so that they had as little time as possible to think about it. They just laid it down. They couldn’t really explain it.

“When it works for me,” says pianist Morten McCoy, “it’s pure meditation, pure prayer. Pure gratitude for simply being, without all kinds of jibber-jabber filling my thoughts.” A sentiment that tells you everything about the feeling and nothing about the sound.

McCoy and the bassist Jonathan Bremer started making music together back in 2012 when they were still in school. At first the Danish duo played dub. It’s hard to imagine that that’s how they started when you listen to the ethereal sounds they make now, but the influence becomes clearer when you see them live: they insist on traveling with their own sound system.

That might seem like a lot of effort for a quiet Danish duo, but for Bremer/McCoy, making music is all about what happens in the room. That’s why they go through the trouble of carrying their own equipment, and it’s why they record analog. When they write music, they aim for direct transmission—idea straight to composition.

Natten (“The Night”), their newest release out on Luaka Bop on Oct. 29, draws inspiration from the end of day, that regenerative time under the constellations when our lives look different.

“We felt a greater freedom this time around because we now have a much deeper understanding and grounding in what we’re doing,” says Bremer. “This allows us to venture further out than ever before, because we know that things typically fall into place.”

This is the pattern: Feeling grounded and then using that solid foundation to launch to greater heights. “It’s certainly our most cosmic album,” says McCoy. “But in order to space out, you have to know where you’re coming from. So the album ranges from tracks where you can hear everything that’s going on, to tracks that take us further out.”

There’s a hint in what Bremer and McCoy say of how they hope you will experience their music. As a key to something. A key to life, or possibly a key to appreciating new sounds. This is the feeling Bremer/McCoy’s music transmits that you won’t be able to shake. They’re trying to tell you something; you’ll hear it if you listen.

Jonathan Bremer, double bass
Morten McCoy, keyboards, tape delay

Morten McCoy
is a pianist, composer, arranger, teacher and vinyl-DJ.

Morten McCoy (f. 1992) started his musical journey by digging deep into the Jamaican music-culture both as a musician, composer, concert-organizer and DJ. Since then he has been digging into both east- and west-african music as well as modern western sounds.

As a record-producer he has among other things been working hard on mastering the art of recording music analogue. In 2017 he worked as a co-composer on the award-winning soundtrack for the danish movie “Underverden”. That year he was also nominated by the association of Danish Music Critics as “Musician of the Year” and “Composer of the Year” together with Jonathan Bremer in 2017.

He curates Livity Music – a subdivision of Raske Plader.

Jonathan Bremer
is a musician, songwriter, label director and producer

Jonathan has been in the spotlight of the Danish jazzscene, since he in 2010 was hired by the newly reopened legendary jazzclub Montmartre as the house bassplayer.

He has toured with Niels Lan Doky in Europe and Asia, and in that context he has played with people like Gino Vannelli, David Sanborn and many others.

Starting with the Bremer/McCoy-albums he started to produce and record and in 2016 he founded Unity Rec. releasing analogue recorded jazz-music.

In 2016 he began working with the danish string-quartet Halvcirkel and in 2017 he produced their selftitled debut-LP.

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