Cosmic Bos Best of Season 3 (2021) - 18 songs and some bants

 Hello dear friend,

Welcome to the blog with the most, um, stuff about Cosmic Bos, and in particular, the goings on of Cosmic Bos across the year of 2021. The third year of our improv music shenanigans went to some interesting places, and we have compiled down from the 67 tracks we released this year, the 18 we think are the bestest. 

3 years of podcasting - https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com - so many years to go.

Wowza! What a thing it is.

Cover for Season 3's Best of.

Here is the tracklist...

1. Space Babies (Virtual Normality version)
   
2. Waiting
3. Aim
4. Witching Hour
5. Like Minded
6. Perplexed
7. Bad Decisions
8. Intentionally
9. Feel the World
10. Take it Easier
11. Space Babies (improv version)
12. Rainbow Appearing
13. Hold on a Little Longer
14. Stay Inside
15. Ignore the Alarm
16. Broken by Desire
17. Brand New
18. Ride Another Wave

2021 was an interesting year, with plenty of ups and downs, twists and turns, 4 improvised albums, 1 EP, 1 Revisation session and plenty of music videos. For a band that just do it all ourselves, we are doing okay. The industry doesn't seem interested in us, for good reason, it's hard to market such prolific art. For example, most major record labels would sign an artist for a 5 album deal, which Cosmic Bos would plough through in a year. We do this in our spare time, it's our hobby, albeit an all consuming one, if we were being paid to do it, imagine what our output could be if we did it full time? 

That's the dream that keeps us playing, and one day soon it will be the reality that we are trying to escape from, oh what a wonderful world of contradictions we live in. 

Big shout out to Joe Philogene for being the musical rock on which our improvised flowers have grown, truly one of the greatest human beings to grace this earth, we love you and can't wait to explore the musical realms with you further. 

Cosmic Bos will be here in 2022, but we are going to be doing something slightly different. Check back for an introductory blog later this week.

Here is the YouTube version of the Best of Season 3, should you wish to tube it up over podcasting it up. 

Happy times ahead my friends, we love you all

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here's the youtube playlist of just the songs should you wish to just have music and not Nick and I talking.

Cosmic Bos all over your year (with fresh improv and covers galore)

 So friends,

Rubber gloves are off, it's knuckling down time, time to business like adults, no more playing in the sand pits of despair, no more swinging on the swing of moods, let's year the hell out of this thing, yeah!

Already we are in the second month of 2021, and it's been pretty much a condensed version of 2020, oh boy, just what we always wanted, more pandemic-ammonium, yum yum, that's a medicine I can happily take without a spoonful of sugar.

It's like we are all waiting for something...

Thanks Anya for acting and singing there, amazing performance. Sorry we kept you waiting so long.

Artwork by Izzy Randall

You see, we recorded the album that is Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In all the way back on the 25th of July 2020, with the 3 Bos boys (Macey, Nick and Andy) and Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird. It was originally slated to be the penultimate episode of Season 2 (2020), but due to unforeseen circumstances it was pushed back to being the first episode of Season 3. On the very next day (26/7/2020) we recorded another record (Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.18: Virtual Normality) with Anya and Ben again. This was originally to be the very last episode of Season 2 (2020) but due to the aforementioned unforeseen circumstances it has now been relocated to the second episode of Season 3 (2021).

Best laid plans and all that, you just never know quite how things will go, so, you know you'll never really know, you know!

Sometimes you don't always get what you Aim for. Take it away Anya

Thanks again Anya, a truly awesome single there, something worth sharing with everyone you ever meet. It is available on all platforms, except train platforms as there is no direct video or musical feature to the rail industry.

If you are in need of a link to the full Anya & Ben episode, find it just below these very words, in embedded player form.

The year is set to continue, I don't think time is going anywhere other than forwards at the same speed it's been travelling for a while now. We here at Cosmic Bos have been running some complex tests, tuning some instruments, tweaking some knobs (completely un-music related activity) and have calibrated our equipment to be able to bring you Cosmic Bos Acoustic Covers (CB/AC), starting off proceedings with a little song called Live Forever by Oasis

Do you know what I mean?

If you do then please email me at cosmicbos@gmail.com and tell me what I mean.

Thanks for your precious time,

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In (ft. Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird)

Hello lovely you,

Gosh you are amazing, how do you do it so effortlessly? I want to know your secrets, but not now, this is neither the time nor place for such wisdom, this is a blog about a podcast, the first Cosmic Bos improv revised album of 2021, featuring the outstandingly talented Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird, without further wasting of your time with meaningless words, I present to you Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In (you already knew the title, it says it at the top, don't go acting like it was a revelation of any kind)

Artwork by Izzy Randall

Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In

Tracklist:

1. Waiting
2. Aim
3. Wicker Bells
4. Never Ending Summer
5. Eyes
6. Feral Girl
7. It's Not Gonna Go Well
8. Rear View Mirror
9. Ben's Shiny Car
10. Witching Hour
11. Beautiful Stories
12. Grey Clouds Came and Took the Summer Away

All music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson, Ben Bluebird and Anya Louisa

Revised and mastered by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson

The album on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/0ex2KrTXKqQ4W3PcprmO5r?si=Ei1QFsnxQcuNLm-qM2vu6w

Season 3 starts with a magic trick, watch as we improvise and then revise an entire album from one days jamming session. It's the same trick we have now pulled 17 times, but it's a good trick and it has a vastly different outcome every time, so, ta dah! 

Anya Louisa brings a whole new dimension to the Cosmic Bos set up, and Ben Bluebird spices up the music and vocal atmosphere just lovelily, big thanks to them both.

We tackle the big questions on everyones minds, like, is magic real? do Magicians need dating apps specially designed for their illusionist needs? How should you rub your wicker bells so as not to get blisters on your fingers? All these questions and more won't be answered in this podcast, but they might get discussed, maybe. At least you have 12 improv songs with beautiful vocals by Anya to enjoy.

Here are the two video's that accompany the episode as well, should you wish to view them, once you've finished listening to the episode of course :)

Waiting

Aim

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All the love in the multiverse

Cosmic Bos

P.S - If you get the time, could you leave us a review on iTunes? thanks xxx

Aim - Cosmic Bos ft. Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird (Official Music Video)

 Hello friends,

First part of 2021 done, only 11 more segments till the new year, oh what fun it is to be alive in these times of time. So with further medication, I present to you 'Aim' by Cosmic Bos, ta dah!

Wow! What do you recon? Any good?

Nick Jackson and myself (Andy Jackson) worked really hard on this video, put our socially distanced backs into it we did, and we are pretty chuffed with the results.

Artwork by Izzy Randall

Aim is the second single from 

Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation 

Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In

Featuring the amazing talents of Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird (both stars of the above video)

We shot the video under strict Covid safe conditions, using just a green screen and an iPhone, we managed to capture all the complex action we needed to construct our pixellated dream music video. Anya and Ben both gave outstanding performances, and the Cosmic Bos chaps did their best (good work chaps).

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The single is available on Spotify, and the album too (from Feb 1st)

Thanks for being amazing, we love you very much

Cosmic Bos

Here is the youtube version should the above podcast version be being a biscuit (like podcasts can be)

New single 'Aim' ft. Anya Louisa coming 1st Feb, here's a teaser for ya

 Oh friends,

Our new single 'Aim' is coming on the 1st Feb. We are super excited to share this with you all, it is probably the best single we have ever released as Cosmic Bos and the vocal work by Anya Louisa is outstanding.

Here's a sneaky peeky

The video is a homage to computer games, as you can tell from this teaser.

The single will be available on all good streaming sites on the 1st Feb, the cover looks like this, so you can't miss it, please save it and share it, love it and caress it, nibble at it's tender bits and share it with all you socially distance come in contact with. 

The album from which this delicious single is taken (Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In) features the amazing musical talents of Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird, and will be available soon. It's 12 tracks of improv-revised loveliness that can hopefully help you through these tough confusing times. 

Anyway, not long to wait now...

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Waiting (ft. Anya Louisa) - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

 So friends,

2021 has begun and we here at Cosmic Bos don't want to keep you waiting around for fresh new music from our musical improv experiment, so we present to you 'Waiting' from the upcoming album Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In, which features the amazing Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird.

This song was improvised, and then revised. For the video we bounced around a few ideas, mainly just joking around trying to think of funny scenarios where waiting was involved, before settling on the old 'Zoom' call not working trick. This marks the first collaboration with Anya Louisa and she makes quite an impact that's for sure. 

Originally we had planned for ep17 to be part of the end of season 2, but with life happening and stuff we decided to push it back, to allow us the time we needed to make it something special. Anya and Ben are both amazing and are both present for the following episode as well (err...ep18, yep, 18 comes after 17, well done me)

Spotify Podcast link

'Waiting' is your first taste of Season 3 of our podcast, the episode from which it has been taken is shaping up very nicely and will be with you in full on the 1st Feb. We have another single and video planned (well, filmed, just not edited yet) for a song called 'Aim'. 

So with lockdowns a plenty, it looks like we are going to be waiting around a whole bunch, might as well spend our time listening to podcasts, improv music and comedy ones, from the UK, hosted by two monkeys...know of any such thing?

Here is our podcast direct link - Podcast link

You can find our show on most reputable podcast sites, and it is also featured on a couple of the really scary ones too, the podcast sites where only the bravest dare listen to streaming audio.

2021 has begun, and we are already just waiting around, but it's got potential to be an exciting and dare I say it, universe changing year, the third season of our show that we just make ourselves unfunded (hint, hint, we want funding) is getting off to a great start, and apart from the apocalypse of society and the general collapsing of reality we here at Cosmic Bos are excited for what is to come. Hooray!

Here is the youtube link should you wish to watch it on that platform

Thanks for your time, hope you liked the video, and check back soon for more improv music and comedy based shenanigans.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos