Album Writing Club 2023 - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren - Sound Investments

 Hello prospective client,

Andy Jackson here, from Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren, I am one of the partners in this musical business that was set up for the #AlbumWritingClub 2023 and I am head of the vocal/lyrics and promotional department of HJJ&W

For your consideration, I present to you 'Playing Office' by Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren

Hartshorn Jackson Jackson Warren · Playing Office

This song is one of the 11 tracks on the album 'Sound Investments' that HJJ&W submitted to the albumwritingclub competition. 

This is the second year that Lights and Lines record label have run this wonderful competition, last year the partners of HJJ&W had taken part in the comp separately, as Andrew Hartshorn, Cosmic Bos (the Jackson brothers) and ASeaWarren (Al Warren), developing friendships through discussions around the competition, working together in different capacities before joining forces to tackle Album Writing Club Year 2.

Here is the full playlist of entrants to the singles competition part of the album competition.

You can vote for your 3 favourites here VOTING FORM (pick your top 3)

Lights And Lines · #AlbumWritingClub2023 - Best Single (Public Vote)

Anyway, back to the business at hand, the musical business of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren.

Headed up by the CEO of Monochrome Motif Records, Mr. Andrew Hartshorn is the first name in our musical business, we call him the Big Dog, mainly because he's the oldest not because he's particularly dog like in any sense of the word. Hartshorn runs a tight ship, having at the beginning of 2023 assembled his labels artists and affiliates to produce the epic Poseidon's Realm under the name the Monochrome Assembly. 

Purchase the album from this embedded link to band camp, and enjoy the video to the song 'It's Between Me and the Sea' from the very album. It features Andrew Hartshorn and the two Jacksons of HJJ&W.

This rather smoothly moves us on to the aforementioned Jackson brothers, Cosmic Bos.

The hosts of the Monthly Music Challenge (MMC), Cosmic Bos love to make music, lots of it, in loads of genres and styles, and then make videos for some of them, if not all of them. 

Cosmic Bos operate a DIY approach and have to date managed to rack up quite a discography of musical experimentation. Working directly with Andrew Hartshorn since last years competition, Cosmic Bos have developed a close working bond with Monochrome Motif. With Andrew Hartshorn taking part in the MMC and Bos being part of the Monochrome Assembly along with...

The Warren part of HJJ&W, Mr. Al Warren, ASeaWarren, musical guru and all round legend of the soundscapes, working with Hartshorn on his debut Orchestral Suite and becoming a New and Notable on Bandcamp with it (awesome work Al). Al was also a key member of the Monochrome Assembly. 

Al (as we are officially allowed to call Mr. Warren) is also a participant in the MMC, and once word had got out that Mike 5 was running Album Writing Club again in 2023, it didn't take long for the 4 partners to combine their unique musical skills and form Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren

Further details about HJJ&W will be made available to the public in due course.

Thank you for your time, please consider following us on Soundcloud whilst we build our profile and prepare to take this business venture public. https://soundcloud.com/hartshorn-jackson-jackson-warren profile

Kind Regards

Andy Jackson partner in HJJ&W

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - MMC 1.5 - Razzmajazz

 Hello cool cats,

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.5 - Razzmajazz

Come on a jazzy journey with Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we venture through the razz and the matazz of the musical world of jazz. This is one interesting ride you are in for, as Cosmic Bos guide us through the fascinating land of the razzmajazz.

With stunning songs by Andrew Hartshorn, Notehead, Tonal Drift, ASeaWarren, Scowsh Molosh, Hellwaddler, Man of Arun, Trench Gun, Peter Hawkey and of course your ever idiotic hosts Cosmic Bos, this is a trip your ears deserve to go on.

Razzmajazz marks our last collaboration hashtag with the wonderful musicians of Music Weeklies, a massive thank you to them for helping get the Monthly Music Challenge off the ground, and we will continue to play songs made for their hashtags until the end of this season of MMC.

The next hashtag (for MMC 1.6) is Artificial Intelligence #ArtificialIntelligence and you have until the 7th of July (2023) to get your AI songs to us for inclusion. You can alternatively submit on any of the previous tags we have had (1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning and now 5. Razzmajazz) to be considered for our coverted Late Subs section. Just send an mp3 with a little bit of info about yourself and your song to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

Here is the full tracklist for MMC 1.5 Razzmajazz

Razzmajazz songs

1. Razzmajazz - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn
3. This is Fine - Notehead
4. Razmajazz - Tonal Drift
5. No.7 Quartet in Bb - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
6. razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
7. Just Make It Up - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler

What a trip! Some real Jazztastic fun sitting there being all quirky and interesting, also notice that all the members of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren are present (n.b Cosmic Bos are the two Jacksons) as is tradition at this point on the MMC.

For the other hashtags of music weeklies month of May we have:

#minime 

8. The Wasted Youth - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
9. Talkin' - Man of Arun @ManofArun
10. Warped - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
11. Kody - Trench Gun 
12. Minime - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler

HopeAndDespair

13. Remaining Forever Hopeful - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
14. Hope and Despair - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey

#Sandcastle

15. The Sand King - Notehead
16. Basic Sandcastle Destruction - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos

And there you have the full set list for the episode, #SpoilerAlert, there were no late subs this month so no subs for you!

Cosmic Bos always pop their tunes for the MMC onto a handy little EP which is available on bandcamp right here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-15-razzmajazz

And as mentioned several times during the episode, you can check out Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren's single (Playing Office) Playing Office - HJJW on Soundcloud

Hartshorn Jackson Jackson Warren · Playing Office

in the singles playlist over on soundcloud for the #albumwritingclub 2023 - full playlist here

and there is a handy voting page where you can pick your 3 favourites from the 34 singles (Congratulations to everyone who took part in AlbumWritingClub this year, you are all winners for getting to the finish line), playlist found on link just above.

You can vote here on this link right here

Please like, share and subscribe to the Monthly Music Challenge, tell your friends and musical rivals.

Our YouTube is here is you fancy some visual stimulation to go with your audio

Peace and infinite jazz

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos Music Podcast - Best of Season 4 (2022)

 Hello lovely you,

Welcome to the Best of Season 4 (2022) of the Cosmic Bos Music Podcast.

It's been a crazy fun year, full of competitions and compositions, challenges and sandwiches, and a breakdown of the music making process in the form of our Making of an Album special presentation.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy this meandering adventure through the year of 2022 with your musical guides, Cosmic Bos.

Here's the interview with did with Mark Schuster as mentioned in the podcast (it was back in April '22) https://marcschuster.wordpress.com/2022/04/04/dutch-for-forest-an-interview-with-cosmic-bos/

And check out Andrew Hartshorn and Monochrome Motif Records

https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com

Epic outer galactic shout out to all the wonderful peeps mentioned in the show, we love you all, you make our musical world turn.

Check out our link tree for all your Cosmic Bos needs

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Here is the full tracklist for B.O.S 4

1. Morning Coffee
2. Faded Memories
3. Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See
4. Vaccine
5. Astral Underwear
6. Badder Decisions
7. The More You Learn, the Less You Know
8. Digital Playground (The MAW Experiment remix of Bad Decisions)
9. Nun in a Kayak
10. Catch a Clue
11. Isle of Avalon
12. Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't
13. Patient Mystery
14. False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) - Andrew Hartshorn & Natalie Williams Calhoun
15. Money Pwease
16. Here's Tom with the Weather (Bill Hicks Tribute)
17. Quilt (Andrew Hartshorn Orchestral version)
18. Spaceship Earth
19. Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't - Trench Gun Cover
20. Talking Frog (ft. Ram Dass)

Thanks for all the support in 2022, we have lots more exciting adventures to come in '23, including big Andrew Hartshorn collabs, and the actual release of The O Door, the album we were making for our Making of an Album series. Plus we are going to launch a kinda competition, for songwriters and musicians, linked in with the lovely people of Music Weeklies. Roll on '23.

Here's the YouTube playlist of all our music videos for 2022.

And here's the Best of on YouTube too

Oh, I almost forgot to mention, we have a special Live album coming out 25th December, containing some acoustic renditions of songs from our year, including such smash hits as Isle of Avalon and Morning Coffee. It's a nice chilled acoustic romp, which you can enjoy with your animals.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) - Andrew Hartshorn ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun (Official Lyric Video)

 Happy December friends,

Amazing artwork by Gecko

False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) - Andrew Hartshorn ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun, vocalled and remixed by Cosmic Bos

Taken from Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality 2

False Promises is originally a song on Andrew Hartshorn's album Movie House, which featured Natalie Williams Calhoun's sublime Cello playing. Cosmic Bos liked the song, so Andy wrote lyrics and a melody, recorded it with Nick, sent it to Andrew, and then Nick added Bass and Drums (and a couple of other things), and we called it a Bos Mix.

Video shot on a rainy day by Andy out of his front room window.

Available on all good internet platforms, you might even find it in the meta verse, but if you like bandcamp then we suggest this link right here

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-2

Also, please like, share and subscribe to our podcast and youtube

you can find all the links you need under our tree

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

The Cosmic Bos Best of Season 4 podcast and album will be coming out tomorrow, or is already out depending on when you read this of course. Thank you for being part of our musical adventure this year, it's been wild.

Here is the Youtube playlist of all our Music Video's for 2022, with still a couple more to be added before the end of the year (the last 2 missing ones from 2 A.M, it's Mission Time)

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Virtual Normality 2 - Cosmic Bos New EP OUT NOW!

 Hello fellow traveller on Spaceship Earth,

Welcome to the blog, here you will find music by Cosmic Bos

Released 11/11/22 was Virtual Normality 2 - Cosmic Bos's new 5 track EP

Purchasable from the very link above

5 new songs, 4 of which come from the Music Weeklies Hashtag challenge on Twitter, 1 which is a Cosmic Bos mix of a phenomenal song by Andrew Hartshorn. 

Last year we made Virtual Normality as a statement of where we intended to take Cosmic Bos in the future, and as a template for what we have done this year (2022) it worked out nicely, plus it had an awesome cover done by iamGecko. 

So as we reach the ending of 2022 we wanted to honour where our direction seems to be going, with the tail end of '22 having been music challenge time (much like the first half of the year was), and developing deeper musical connections with fellow artists, and becoming more involved in the musical community on the interweb thanks to The Album Writing Club and Music Weeklies, as well as Nick having another baby (Outer Space Jazz) and Theo growing up fast (Space Baby Classic), as well as the world crumbling apart around us all, it's seemed only prudent to do a sequel to Virtual Normality. 

So we tweaked the colours of the cover, added a big 2 and slapped 5 songs on it just like the first. 

Here's the YouTube playlist embedded - please like, share and subscribe if you are a tuber

And it's all over Spotify and other online music prisons

Nick and I (Andy) will do a proper podcast to go along with the album, with us talking all about the tracks, but we've had to postpone it's recording so we can take part in the Off the Records Music Festival at the Brunswick in Hove tomorrow (12th November), hopefully we'll get a bit of video footage to share with you from it.

After the podcast for VN2 we will look to close the year off with a Best of (as is now tradition) and a Live acoustic album of songs from the year.

We are deep in planning for next year too, going to revamp the podcast a bit, give it a new focus, more to follow.

Morning Coffee video to follow too

Thanks for being awesome

Peace and infinite air miles

Cosmic Bos

Quilt - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video) from 2 A.M, it's Mission Time

 Happy day my friend,

Welcome to a nice relaxing music video offering from Cosmic Bos, featuring the phenomenal talents of Mr Joe Philogene.

Quilt - Cosmic Bos

From the Judges Choice Award Winning Album - 2 A.M, it's Mission Time

Cosmic Bos 2 A.M, it's Mission Time on Bandcamp - buy on bandcamp, support us little indie musicians

Cosmic Bos (Andy & Nick Jackson) enlisted the talents of Joe Philogene to create this wonderful piece of music for the Album in a Month challenge put on by Lights And Lines Indie Label back in May 2022. It is the second piece Joe designed for us, and it is simply sublime, Joe plays the 12 string Ngoni forming the backbone of this transcendent piece. We love you Joe.

For the video we have simply overlaid some footage from our Wales holiday, and some home beach footage too, over the original videos of us making the song.

Please like, share and subscribe @Cosmic Bos

And comment too

#cosmicbos #ukmusic #subscribe #podcast #newmusic #newmusicvideo #musicvideo #chillmusic

Check out our podcast for lots of musical fun and shenanigans

https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

Andrew Hartshorn did an Orchestral version of this song, check it out and give him a listen

Quilt (Orchestral Version) by Andrew Hartshorn is the double A side to False Promises, which we did a bit of vocals on for Andrew. We have a Cosmic Bos remix of False Promises which will feature on our next EP (Virtual Normality 2) coming in November to ears near you.

Have a wonderful day being awesome, you got this

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here is the YouTube link should you wish to go there and give us a subscribe and/or comment

False Promises\Quilt - Andrew Hartshorn & Cosmic Bos Double A Side (ft. nwcalhoun & Joe Philogene)

 Happy day person,

Thanks for stopping by this little blog, where I (Andy Jackson) am happy to share with you this amazing Double A Side single Collaboration with the amazing Andrew Hartshorn.

You can purchase both songs right here right now on the bandcamp link.

False Promises is originally from Andrew Hartshorn's Album Writing Club album Movie House and features Natalie Calhoun on Cello (she was also a member of the Album Writing Club).

It is a wonderful record, full of sweeping cinematic pieces which were all constructed in a month. I wrote the lyric for False Promises and sent Andrew my idea, he gave me permission to record it, so I went away and wrote something better which I proceeded to record (with Nick's help) and send off for mixing. Nick and I have kept a version of it to tinker on and False Promises (Cosmic Bos Remix) will be included on our next release.

As for Quilt, well, I shall blog about that in more depth tomorrow when we release the video for it.

We asked Andrew Hartshorn if he would do an orchestral version of Quilt, and he did, and it's amazing.

Here is the YouTube link, go subscribe to Andrew Hartshorn to hear all his wonderful music.

Quilt is from our Album Writing Club album - 2 A.M, it's Mission Time. It is one of the two tracks that feature the phenomenal talents of Mr. Joe Philogene on the 12 string Ngoni, and it's a love song about wanting to be in bed with your significant other, not for sexy reasons, just for being together safely reasons.

You can also purchase that album from bandcamp. (it picked up a Judges Choice Award)

Also, also, we released Virtual Normality EP, to bandcamp, it was from last year, but it felt prudent to put it on the old camp.

So that's lots to spend your money on that isn't gas or electricity.

Quilt video coming tomorrow, new EP - Virtual Normality 2 coming next month hopefully, and a full collaboration album with Andrew Hartshorn coming early next year. We also have the bones of a documentary which we are hopeful to have with you by early next year too.

Happy musical day my friend, love ya.

Peace and infinite love

Andy (from Cosmic Bos)