Hello friends,
Welcome to the first episode of our limited series 'Making of an Album'
How does one make an album?
That is the question at the heart of this special podcast presentation, and Nick & Andy from Cosmic Bos are going to break it down for you, from writing the songs, to demo stage, full recording and producing, before tackling making music videos and finally releasing the finished album.
It will hopefully be a wonderful experience for all, and we shall learn along the journey together.
What qualifies you to be doing this Making of an Album series? I've never heard of you!
A fine question indeed, and true, that Cosmic Bos is not exactly a well known musical outfit, but in our defence, we have been making music for a long time, with over 20 albums of improvised/revised music available and several other proper albums sprinkled through our past.
Go on then, tell us about Cosmic Bos.
Cosmic Bos came into existence back in 2016, and we released our debut album '7 Billion' in 2017, which has been followed by 3 Seasons of Improvised music podcasting.
In 2021 Cosmic Bos released 'Virtual Normality' EP, a 5 track proper record, that was designed as the taster for this very Album of a Making podcast project.
So as you can see, we have made a lot of music, which qualifies us to appoint ourselves as qualified to make a podcast about making an album. Ultimately the measure of success of aforementioned project is an actual album existing at the end of it all, which, we confidently think there will be, also, Cosmic Bos is not affiliated with any record labels, so our interest in making an album is legitimately about Making a GOOD album of real music, not a product for lining already overlined pockets.
All music featured in this podcast was made by Cosmic Bos and is available to hear or if you can afford it, buy, at all good online musical stores.
Tracklist for Episode 1
- Faded Memories
- Take it Easier (from 'Virtual Normality' EP)
- Ride Another Wave (from 'Virtual Normality' EP)
- Where the Warp-zones Are (from '7 Billion')
- Let's Go Dancing (from 'Ep.14: Utopia in a Cornucopia')
- Ensemble Story
Both Faded Memories & Ensemble Story come from our upcoming new Improv(squared) album and are both available now.
Here's a Spotify player for convenient listening needs.
Check out the videos for our double A side singles in our podcast feed and on our youtube (or instagram if that's your thang)
We hope you have found this informative and interesting, as the series progresses we will delve into much greater depth on all the in's and out's of album construction, and hopefully we will learn a thing or two on the journey. It's exciting and fills the existential crisis hole that forever questions if we are all just living in a simulation that was literally turned on only twenty minutes ago, and all our memories are merely loaded in code, and our hopes and dreams are just glitches in a system that teeters on collapse under it's own weight at any given moment. Ahem.
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
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