Sunday 25 July 2021

Space Babies - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

 Hello space babies,

How are you doing? Enjoying yourself? 

Well, it's time for us to all get a little bit spacey and reconnect with our inner child, or inner baby, a bit of preverbal exploration of existence.


Space Babies! The first single from our upcoming album Cosmic Bos Improvisation 3: Summadelica

Music improvised by Joe Philogene (Percussion), Nick Jackson (Electric Guitar and Synth) and Andy Jackson (Acoustic Guitar and Vocals)

Video starring Theodore Jackson as Space Baby and Andrea Jackson as Space Baby Momma 

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Season 3 podcast cover starring Theo 'Space Baby' Jackson
Space Babies - lyrics by Andy Jackson


Flying through space

Feel no air at my waist

The pressures are gone

Freedom swims along

Imagination

Mental elevation

Whole worlds shall dissolve

New empires unfold


It’s a game, we’re just playing

It’s a laugh, we’re all staying

These dragons all need slaying

We need truth, I’m just saying


Flying through space

Like a babies first taste

No sense letting the pressure

Stop exploring together

Imaginations

Create greater nations

Cooperating peacefully

Will be achieved eventually


It’s a game, we the players

It’s quite hard, entertain us

These dragons sent for slaying

Are our reason for staying


Space, need plenty of space

Babies gotta taste

For that infinite space

...

No Babies or Cows were adversely affected during the making of this video, however, one of the cows did spontaneously turn inside out yesterday, but that was nothing to do with the video, purely coincidental.

The idea for this video had been bouncing around the Cosmic Bos camp for a little while, originally it was to have been adults swimming in space, but when Theo came along and melted our hearts with his theodorableness it became a no brainer to get him to be our test subject for green screen based space flight, somewhat cheaper then Bezos, Branson and Musk, we managed to send Theo in to space without a rocket or a suit, and judging by his reactions he was loving his time floating round the cosmos meeting cows and aliens and just generally having a little swim in space.

The deeper meaning behind all this lovely babies in space stuff has to do with our very own entry points to this reality, could we all just be space babies that have plugged in to this 3D spectrum to have a human experience for a bit, before we return to space babiedom and find another playground to have an existential experience in? Maybe baby. Worth some pondering for sure.

As a baby, the possibilities remain infinite, it is only time and interactions that shape the infinite into the finite, crushing the language paradigm, the visual realm, the mental capability to do literally whatever you can imagine, all slowly moulded out of us. But, a Baby shows you this, and for a brief moment you can remember what it is like to be free of all pressure.

Find your inner space baby and go on an adventure, share this experience far and wide so that all can be reminded how amazing we all are really.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos








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Tuesday 20 July 2021

Clearly Designed & Pinata of Troy (Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections tracks 12&13)

 So friends,

The conclusion of the Sunrise Reflections comes in the form of 2 songs, the penultimate track being Clearly Designed, and the final song being Pinata of Troy.


Clearly Designed - Cosmic Bos Improvisation

 Ngoni - Joe Philogene

 Electric Guitar - Nick Jackson

 Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson

 After the deep thinking soul soothing antics of Ram Dass, it is time for the smokey wisdom of Cosmic Bos, with Joe using his Hunters Harp to hold the song together, Andy and Nick help build the tapestry. At the end of our musical/visual journey we are at our most burnt out, and beautiful colourful smoke carries our almost final musical opus away, the sun sets and the day is done, after the next one (Piñata of Troy).

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 Here are the lyrics which were written prior to the musical improv.

 Clearly Designed - by Andy Jackson


 Waiting out another cycle Too many layers to this trifle Clearly designed and built to shine But socially easy to stifle

 Wear the honour like a hat There really is no shame in that Clearly designed and made to shine You’re the hipster coolest cat

 Normally the normal me Would embrace all that I can see The signs are all designed clearly Proving this ain’t reality

 Save your memories in a chest One day it will be all that’s left Clearly refined preserved design Testament to your dying breath

 Normally the normal me Gets swept up in catastrophe Of late though I’ve designed clearly A proclaimed self sufficiency

 Systems trotted out and barely tested Propping up the failed reinvested A clear design fault finally been bested Medal goes to third, the hairy chested

 Normally the normal me Gets glitched out by bad latency On this occasion I’ll agree To check this was designed clearly

...

and finally...


Pinata of Troy - Cosmic Bos

The final track from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections sees the sun setting on our adventure and the Pinata being gifted to Troy.

Percussion - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar and Synth - Nick Jackson

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson


PIÑATA Of TROY - lyrics by Andy Jackson


Slow cooking up a cluster duck 

Shredded, pancaked, out of luck

From pond to plate 

Best not to wait

Or moral issues surface 


Go Derek on the little things

Kindness floats on angel wings

From start to end

The great pretend

Will barely scratch the surface 


Back end of the convoy 

First to see the decoy

But treated like a chew toy

Piñata given to Troy


It’s animal to instinct

Not capable of deep think

But baby, bath and the sink

Don’t deserve discarding


It’s human to be lazy

It’s chaos wrapped in crazy 

memory is some what hazy

Unless directed by Scorcese 


Back end of the convoy

First to see the decoy

Treated like a chew toy

Pinata given to Troy

...

At the end we have our toy horse full of treats, ready to be given to someone who will hopefully enjoy it and get something positive from it, we are not enemies, but friends who haven't met yet, so here's a piñata. Our journey concludes.

What a journey it has been, from the early twinklings of Time is Now, through the ups and downs of Sunrises, Intentions, Bad Decisions, World Feelings worth staying for, wise wise Ram Dass, Being in the now, Now, reflecting, reflective...to the end, where the oversized Pinata is gifted to the enemy, so we may all be friends and solve this riddle of existence together, for together is always better.

The sun sets on this journey, the second of our fully improvised album releases, utilising the sunsets filmed after the session from our window, we close this book. But fear not, for the story is far from over, and Improvisation 3: Summadelica is already in the bag and itching to get out.

Sunrise Reflections was a truly wonderful project to work on, and Joe Philogene brought so much love, energy and talent to the core of this work which gave Nick and Andy such a rich space to explore musically, it was an honour. 

Also Ram Dass, what can be said about Ram Dass?! 

Mainly for what we were using him for it was rhythm, Ram Dass speaks with such flow and rhythm that combining his voice with our improvised music just worked so well, so well in fact that we used him for all of the improvised Words of Wisdom sections, as well as the song that bore his books title 'Be Here Now'.

Check out the Here and Now podcast to hear lots of awesome mind opening speeches by Ram Dass

https://beherenownetwork.com/ 

Also check out our podcast for plenty of improvised musical shenanigans and visual funfoolery, we love you dearly and have something special to share with you, it's in our podcast somewhere, go have a look.

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Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos






Saturday 10 July 2021

Words of Wisdom 4: Ram Dass (Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections tracks 10&11)

 So friends, time for more Ram Dass


Cosmic Bos presents Words of Wisdom 4: Ram Dass

Music improvised by Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson. 

This is an excerpt from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections

Video by Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson, 

ft. footage of Cosmic Bos improvising the music that goes with this very song.

Words of Wisdom by Ram Dass taken from the Here and Now podcast, link to episode below

https://beherenownetwork.com/confusion/ 

Please support the Here and Now foundation, and listen to many many amazing talks by Ram Dass on that awesome podcast. 

P.S - The audio only version of this is on our album and in our podcast feed.


Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos



Sunday 4 July 2021

Stayed Here for the Feeling - Cosmic Bos Sunrise Reflections (track 9 of 13)

 So friends,

We came here for the fun, but stayed here for the feeling


Track 9 on Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections

Percussion - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson

Video by Nick and Andy Jackson

After a couple of sets of wise words from the almighty Ram Dass, Cosmic Bos come back to their musical roots and serve up a somewhat simple singer songwriter kinda song. With lyrics by Andy, the chaps came here for the fun, but stayed here for the feeling.


Stayed Here for the Feeling - Lyrics by Andy Jackson


Spread across the bed

While the mower’s in the shed

Gets dustier and rustier

Use paving stones instead


Lazy built an empire

And then slept through the day

Generations greatest gifts



Casually thrown away

But fun is what we came for

The feelings’ why we stayed

We’ll decimate the buffet

And likely misbehave 


Yonder window sunset

Yesterday was better

Except for the pain we felt

So easy to forget her


Tomorrow could be easy

Or is that simply dreaming

Came here for the fun

But stayed here for the feeling


Today is all okay

This is time worth stealing

Came here for the fun

Stayed here for the feeling


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