Death Defying Unicorn started out as a question from Midt Norsk Jazzforum to Staale Storloekken in the fall of 2009: "did he think it was possible to write or organize a concert with Motorpsycho and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at the Molde International Jazzfestival in the summer of 2010?" Having known Staale for a long time - though never actually having played with him - Motorpsycho thought it a splendid idea and agreed to do "something". Having discussed the project, both Staale and the band soon thought it would be best if the music was new and not just rearrangements of old MP material, so demos changed hands and the thing started to take shape and grew and mutated until it was recognized that it would really benefit the music if there were strings. At that point, both master-fiddler Ola Kvernberg as well as a string octet from Trondheims Solistene became involved. There were really no limits put on the music when it was being composed, and ...