The third hashtag for Music Weeklies January set was #Geisha
I (Andy) knew little to nothing about Geisha, their traditions and culture, I had heard of them, and I'd seen the trailer to Memoirs of a Geisha, I even remember the book being out. That was it though, until the hashtag was announced and I (still Andy) had to do some research.
Now I love Geisha
Here is the youtube video
To make this, I used an authentic Japanese Geisha Dance song, added some modern drums and bass, a sprinkling of synths and a bit of production twinkling, and the result is, well, above.
You can now submit Geisha songs to the Monthly Music Challenge for inclusion in the first full episode. You have until the 3rd Feb to submit. Check the podcast for details.
As the Monthly Music Challenge is now underway, I (Andy) have turned my attention back to the wonderful world of Music Weeklies and their extra hashtags for the month. Nick is busy working on Nude Beginnings for our Monthly submission (see other blogs on this page for details), while I have been having some fun with some synthesisers.
I present to you, my submission for #Pixels - One Pixel at a Time
This was a fun one to make, neglecting the guitar in favour of pure synthetic sound, something a singer/songwriter has trouble doing, but it can be a refreshing change of pace, and since we are in New Beginnings January it seemed appropriate to go all in on something different.
The submissions have been coming in for the Monthly Music Challenge, you still have a bit of time if you wanted to get in on the fun from the start. #NewBeginnings - make a song up around that theme, go, get it done and then send it to Cosmic Bos and they will spin it on their podcast. You have till the 3rd of Feb 2023 to get them in for this hashtag, next months tag will be revealed on the 3rd Feb in the evening.
Right, have a wonderful week you lovely people,
Back to the musical grindstone for me
Peace and infinite love
Andy (Cosmic Bos)
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It was a big weekend for Cosmic Bos, we put out our first Monthly Music Challenge song, Nude Beginnings - the weeklies version of our #newbeginnings song. And here it is:
And the video version too, from our lil old utub
If that wasn't enough, we were also interviewed on the amazing New Music Saturday show, and here that is too:
Massive thanks to Dr. Bones and Mike5 for having us on, we could have chatted to them for hours, and Spoiler Alert! but we will be back on the show midyear to give an update on the Monthly Music Challenge.
The bangs just keep being 2023 shaped.
We also did a little acoustic version of Nude Beginnings to show it's stripped down basic essence, so nude, we nuded Nude Beginnings.
We have already had several submission for the MMC #NewBeginnings challenge, and there is still a couple of weeks before the closing date for subbing, so if this idea is peaking your musical interest then come aboard, the staff are mostly friendly on the good ship Cosmic Bos, and we are here to answer anything we can.
Nick is busy tweaking up Nude Beginnings, he's already done quite a bit and it is sounding nice. Got to redo the vocals and add harmonies still, but it's coming together nicely.
Welcome to the blog where the Monthly Music Challenge takes place, this is the introduction
Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with @CosmicBos podcast
This is the introduction episode, laying out how it's going to go down for the rest of the year.
Let Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) be your guides through the wonderful world of music creation, working with the sublime musicians of Music Weeklies @MusicWeeklies CB will be making a new song every week in line with their rules, but on the side CB will be offering up the chance for music made within the month (leaning heavily on the first hashtag of each month) to be played on this podcast, and get comments from Nick and Andy.
Podcast play (PP) will not be reserved exclusively for the first hashtag (which btw is #NewBeginnings), and any of Music Weeklies hashtags generated in the given month are viable for PP, please send your mp3's (not WAVs, our inbox will die) to cosmicbos@gmail.com with the hashtag in the subject line, and a bit of info about yourself so we can give you the promo in the podcast that you deserve.
We won't be playing any material that doesn't meet the Music Weeklies guidelines or our Monthly Music Challenge ones either, to get airplay and PP for such songs you should go check out the New Music Saturdays guys (they have a podcast of their show too, check it out).
So, get to work lovely musicians, songwriters, audio creatives
You have until the 3rd of Feb (2023) to submit for the January hashtags, of which the first one (and the one you can have a month to work on) is #NewBeginnings
Check back on Twitter on the 13th, 20th and 27th of Jan to find out the other three hashtags that we will accept PP on.
This should be fun, we can't wait to hear from you
Any questions please come find us on Twitter @CosmicBos where we will attempt to answer them (SPOILER ALERT! we might not be able to)
Cosmic Bos are going to launch their new Monthly Music Challenge this coming weekend (Friday evening in the UK via Music Weeklies Twitter Hashtag Challenge), and I (Andy) have been taking part in the weekly musical creating since back in August last year. I made 21 hashtag songs in 2022, and one final one before the Monthly Challenge Launch for the final hashtag of last year #Drunk
Not my usual offering for sure, but I got an equipment upgrade at Christmas so wanted to flex some dance music muscles and let the guitar have a week off, instead turning to the trusty MiniNova to do the musical heavy lifting.
Here is a playlist of all 22 Music Weeklies Challenges I did, with a couple of upgraded demo's in there too from Cosmic Bos' EP - Virtual Normality 2.
Here's the link tree to all your Cosmic Bos branches, we have music and videos and podcasts all for Free!
To close out 2022, we present to you Closed to the Public
This is the closing track on our Judges Choice Award Winning Album, and the last of our videos to be released for our 2022 slate.
The song is about the secrets that are kept hidden by the state, the land that is private and the control systems that refuse to share their knowledge with the general population, and it also references Lord of the Rings because we happen to like Lord of the Rings.
All our music videos from 2022 can be found in our podcast feed, or in this handy playlist on YouTube
It has been a fantastic year for Cosmic Bos, even though we failed to achieve our primary objective (which was to make The O Door), we advanced our musical status no end, releasing our Improv Squared concept to the world (the world still isn't ready, hence the lack of response), making an Album in a Month for the Album Writing Club (see 2 A.M, it's Mission Time for details), collaborating on Orchestral tracks and doing the groundwork for 2023's big challenge as displayed in our EP Virtual Normality 2.
We have done our Outergalactic shoutouts for the year, on twitter, so here are screenshots of those tweets.
And finally, we got a tweet from Dan Wilson himself about our cover of his amazing song Dancing on the Moon.
Here is the song, it was on our Bos Live #2 Album we put out on Christmas Day
Happy New Year - Let's see what 2023 has in store shall we!
