Monthly Music Challenge podcast 1.9 Superspectacular - with your hosts Cosmic Bos

 Hello wonderful you,

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.9 - Superspectacular

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the spectacular, super spectacular in factular, freshist, most organic, juiciest indie music being made today, with all the songs having been made in September of 2023 around the theme of Superspectacular, and we must say it is something rather special indeed.

You are in for a treat here, the music served up this month is all of the highest degree, truly awesome sauce on the hotdog of life, with amazeballs tracks by John Serrano and Raul Lupianez, Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Mario Marino, Trench Gun, Above the Snow Line, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Broken Nomads, Mobidextrous, Taylor Lidstone and of course your idiotic hosts, Cosmic Bos.

It really is something to behold, please support all this amazing indie music that is as up to date as you can get, comments, likes, subscribes, support is what makes it all worthwhile, and these artists are truly something else, well worth your time.

You can listen to and purchase all of Cosmic Bos's Superspectacular tracks in a hand EP on bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-19-superspectacular and if you are so inclinded, a comment makes our dayz.

Big shout out the Only the Host and his crispy crew of awesomeness, Cosmic Bos loves you all and can't wait for more of you to join the MMC, we have rooms all ready on the MMC challenger, come along for the musical ride.

Here is the full Super Spectacular Tracklist (or SuperSpectrackulist if you prefer):

1. Super Spectacular - Cosmic Bos
2. Can't Get You Out of my Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez
3. Atlantis part 1. The Majesty (single) - Andrew Hartshorn
4. Super - TexMex Shaman
5. Mecha Funk - Mario Marino
6. Inside Job (instrumental) - Cosmic Bos
7. War is a Drug - Trench Gun
8. Atlantis part 2. The Wrath of the Gods (twingle) - Andrew Hartshorn
9. Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line
10. Epiphany - Hellwaddler
11. Ballad of the Rainbow Disco Chicken vs Autotunebots from the Future - Cosmic Bos
12. Superspectacular - Notehead
13. No. 12 Quartet in C Minor - A Sea Warren
14. Star Cry - Broken Nomads
15. Atlantis part 3. The Aftermarth (tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn
16. Spectacularis - Mobidextrous
17. Dreamscape Promises (Late Sub for Dreams) - Taylor Lidstone
18. Keeping it Old School - Cosmic Bos

There you have it, amazeballs all over the pit. Probably time to tell you what the final theme of MMC1 is going to be. Without further ado, MMC 1.10 will be Finale, that's Finale

MMC 1.10 - Finale (coming 4th November)

You have till the 3rd of November to send your 'Finale' songs to us, please email an mp3 and a lil blurb to cosmicbos@gmail.com . You can always send Late Sub's to us on any of the previous themes for the year, we have a special section for them in the show.

MMC 1.10 Finale will be the last theme for 2023, but fear not, we shall return in 2024 with MMC2, 10 more themes to build an album around. Before that though, we will do the Best of MMC1 Awards, where we will give out awards to our favourite tracks from across the years monthly music challenging. We will also do a Rest of MMC1 because there's a lot to go over.

Please like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos, and comments are the best thing ever, so if you've got one in you please drop it on our podcast somewhere (YouTube's good for comments), pwease and thank yow.

Peace and infinite crispy love

Cosmic Bos

Here's our lyric video for Super Spectacular, we went full gween squeen

P.S - Big Mick?

P.P.S - Cosmic Bos Superspectacular EP is available here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-19-superspectacular

Or listen on this handy embed, maybe pick yourself up a copy? or drop a comment?

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast - 1.7 - Mother Earth

 Hello friends,

I do apologise for the lateness of this blog, the episode has been out for quite some time, but life has been busy and the blog got forgot, soz.

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.7 - Mother Earth

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical interpretations created for our wonderful Mother Earth by some of the most talented musicians in the whole world. What did we all choose to say about Gaia, the great ball on which we all reside ? Well you are in for a treat friends, as all this music has been environmentally sourced, has an extremely low carbon footprint and has travelled from around our great planet without clocking in any airmiles (email miles don't count).

Prepare to give praise to Gaia, Mother Earth, the big Blue & Green, with the musical stylings of Mobidextrous, Andrew Hartshorn, Hellwaddler, Trench Gun, Aye Nevo, Man of Arun, TexMex Shaman, Taylor Lidstone, A Sea Warren, Notehead, JPeck, Trommelfell.MB and your idiotic hosts Cosmic Bos with special guests Joe Philogene and Dayne Howcroft.

Cosmic Bos put out their songs on an EP, which coincidently always has the same title as the coresponding episode of the Monthly Music Challenge. It will be available everywhere, but on bandcamp it will be purchasable. You can also pick up singles, twingles, EPs and Albums by most of the great artists featured in this episode. Please check them all out and share the musical connections.

The next theme for MMC 1.8 is Dreams #Dreams 

Please send your mp3's with a little write up about the song to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

If you are a first time submitter please send a bio about yourself too, otherwise Nick and Andy will make something up and it will likely be very silly, music is a serious business and Cosmic Bos's style of podcast most certainly isn't serious.

You have until the 8th September 2023 to get your Dreams songs in, as well as any late submissions for the previous themes. (previous themes are 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz, 6. Artificial Intelligence and now 7. Mother Earth)

Good luck! Get your dreamy brain on and make up a song.

Please take the time to comment, follow all the amazing artists featured on their socials, likes, shares, subscriptions and comments are the bread and butter of the indie music scene, please distribute them generously.

Here is the full track list for the episode, all tracks are on the theme of Mother Earth (except for the 'late sub' found near the end of the episode)

1. Earth's Children - Cosmic Bos ft. Joe Philogene & Dayne Howcroft
2. Mother/Earth - Mobidextrous
3. Orbit - Faith - Mobidextrous
4. Terra Mater - Andrew Hartshorn
5. Gaia's Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler
6. Gaeacide - Trench Gun
7. A Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo
8. Circles in the Crops - Cosmic Bos
9. Earthy - Mobidextrous
10. Back to Nature (Dub version) - Mobidextrous
11. The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun
12. Poo Poo Kickin' & Toad Lickin' - TexMex Shaman
13. Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone
14. So Many Songs for You - A Sea Warren
15. Salt on the Speakers - Cosmic Bos
16. Evil Earth - Notehead
17. They Lied to Me - J Peck
18. Ann Miller - Trench Gun
19. She Won't Let you Fly - Hellwaddler
20. Gaia - Mobidextrous
21. On Some Nights - Mobidextrous
22. (LATE SUB) Flowers - Trommelfell.MB
23. Milked it - Cosmic Bos

Thanks for listening, please like, share and subscribe to all the amazing artists featured in the MMC.

Big Outergalactic shoutout to the newbies that joined this month, Taylor Lidstone, Aye Nevo and Trommelfell.MB - you all are amazeballs and we have musical cabins for all of you on the Monthly Music Challenger astral submarine thing we made up a bunch of episodes ago.

So quick reminder, the next theme is Dreams

Here's the YouTube link to the podcast episode, should you prefer that

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

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

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.4 - Winning podcast

 Winning!

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge Podcast with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.4 - Winning

Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) present for your listening pleasure the finest in underground musical talent building a musical empire, one hashtag at a time, for the fourth outing of the first year of the MMC, we took on the epic concept of #Winning, and invited the worlds musicians to also take part, and some of them did, and here it is, in podcast form for you.

This is the first hashtag that we have undertaken without being partnered up with the music weeklies peeps (check them out, they are awesome sauce), but rest assured, this episode still contains several of the challenges set by the weeklies, once all the Winning has been dealt with.

And, returning once again, we have the Late Subs section, with some tasty musical treats for your ears around the previous hashtags of the MMC.

Before #SpoilerAlert ending the show with a track from the Poseidon's Realm album by the Monochrome Assembly

Check out the Monochrome Assembly bandcamp here https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album

The next hashtag for Monthly Music Challengers is #Razzmajazz 

in conjunction with the Music Weeklies again, we challenge you to explore your expressive Jazz, be wild, be bold, and see what happens, it's all that kinda jazz baby! You have until the 2nd of June to get your Rasmajazz songs to us, send mp3's and a bio or song info to cosmicbos@gmail.com 

We begin proceedings this time with (surprise, surprise) Cosmic Bos and our song We Are All in This Together (which we made a lyric video for)

Here is the full tracklist for MMC 1.4 Winning

Winning songs

1. We Are All in this Together - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Andrew Hartshorn
3. You Can't Be A Winner (If You're A Sinner) - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
4. D - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler
5. Let's Go Bro! - TexMex Shaman
6. Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun @ManOfArun
7. Smell Defeat - Notehead
8. Winning (Deep Friend Mix) - Mobidextrous  @mobidextrous9777

What a collection of Winning songs right there, all returning players to the MMC, with an eclectic take on the theme, bangers one and all, go check out all these wonders on the socials.

On to the weekly hashtag songs provided by the @musicweeklies 

TuneWithAView

9. TuneWithAView - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
10.  Tune With A View - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey

MyCulture

11. Kick in the Cultures - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
12. Scrying Mirror - Notehead

Accelerate

13. Accelerate - Tonal Drift
14. Accelerate - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
15. Sprint - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos

That leaves us with the LATE SUBS, Whoop Whoop!

16. in the beginning (#NewBeginnings) - Tonal Drift
17. Ignorance (#Ignorance) - TexMex Shaman

And finally, to cap the episode off nicely, we present to you another track from the Poseidon's Realm album by the Monochrome Assembly

18. The Seagull - The Monochrome Assembly 

Thanks for listening and supporting, please consider subscribing and leaving comments and share with all your friends

Here is Cosmic Bos EP MMC 1.4 Winning on bandcamp, where you can purchase it should you be so inclined.

Here is the podcast playlist courtesy of YouTube

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Idiots (weeklies version) by Cosmic Bos for the #Ignorance Monthly Music Challenge

 Hello friends,

Check out Idiots (weeklies version) by Cosmic Bos

And here's the YouTube video link if you wish to see Andy doing his Beavis and Butt-head impression

We are deep into Monthly Music Challenge 1.3 - Ignorance, with several submissions already received it is shaping up to be one hell of a show I'm telling you. Our entry (Cosmic Bos) for the #Ignorance challenge is 'Idiots', the version you hear here is the version we put together for the Music Weeklies challenge, they only give you one week to make your song, where as here at Monthly Music Challenge we give you the added bonus time of One Whole Calendar month to make your song. 

It's very exciting, you should come get involved, here is the link to the podcast itself, please go and subscribe to it where ever you do your podcasting (it should be there, just search Monthly Music Challenge) or direct link HERE (OFFICIAL PODCAST PAGE)

Our last episode MMC 1.2 - Escape was an absolute blast and a half, check it out!

Thanks for the review Scowsh

Big thanks to New Music Saturday for spinning our weeklies version of Idiots, and also big thanks for crediting us on TexMex Shamans new song, alas, we had nothing to do with it's creation, it was prompted by the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos, we don't deserve any of the credit. Spoiler Alert! we've had a late submission for Escape, by the awesome TexMex Shaman, we will spin it on the next
episode in a new segment we will probably call Late Subs, or something equally juvenile knowing us.

In other news, the Lights and Lines Album in a Month competition is returning in May, hosted once again by the enigmatic Mike5, Cosmic Bos will be taking part this year, but in a bit of a different way from last year. More to come on that for sure.

Also, also, while we are doing news, the last hashtag by Music Weeklies was #UpsideDown and I (Andy) made a little song for it, as is my songwriting duty, and here it is for you, on the end of this blog, it's called Down for the Upside

Thanks for stopping by, love ya

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Stop Saying 1984 to Make a Point (Official Music Video) by Cosmic Bos

 Hello lovely friends,

With the '22 ending imminently, it seemed only fitting to do a little cleaning out the hard drive ready for a fresh year of music and videos, which revealed a couple of music video's that had managed to skip their release windows and hide out in the hard drive. So, I present to you the first of the two missing music video's from our Judges Choice Award Winning Album - 2 A.M, It's Mission Time

Stop Saying 1984 to Make a Point 

Nick and I (Andy) made music video's to go with every song from the album, when we were recording the actual record, we put camera in our faces to capture the process and give ourselves the option to make music videos for 10 out of the 12 tracks on the album. We had to make proper music videos for 'Catch a Clue' and 'Patient Mystery' as they had not been constructed musically using our special Improv Squared technique. 

We felt this was the weakest song on the record, which is why it got skipped over in favour of the next video on the release schedule. It's not a bad song, but it's a bit barebones and could do with a bit more musical muscle, which ironically makes the song much like the protagonist of the book 1984. 

Still, it made the album final tracklist, and sits proudly alongside it's musical brothers and sister on 2 A.M.

Here's the Youtube version should you prefer it

Coming tomorrow will be 'Closed to the Public', the final song from the album, along with a roundup of the year blog, Thanks for coming on this adventure with us, we love you very much.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Linktree - https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

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 Music Podcast Special Presentation

 Hello fellow passenger on Spaceship Earth,

Welcome to the blog that goes with the podcast about Cosmic Bos's new EP Virtual Normality 2

 Here's a linktree you can take shelter under https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

You have reached the hub of the Cosmic Bos multiverse and begin your journey down the second of our Virtual Normality tours. Last time, we explored Space with Babies, chilled out, stayed inside and then ended with a birth. 

So a year later, Cosmic Bos have decided to take you on a different journey. For this year (2022) has been an exploration of songwriting, in it's many varied forms, as well as Cosmic Bos collaborating with other types of musicians to explore music further.

Back in August '22, Andy started taking part in a weekly music challenge that is run primary from Twitter, where each week a hashtag is set and you have one week to make an original piece of music on theme (big thanks to Trench Gun for hooking us in).

To start with Andy didn't take it very seriously, but a few weeks in it was becoming exciting trying to write the best song possible within the very loose restrictions.

So play along with the episode and try and Guess the Hashtag to 4 of the songs, and be WOW'ed by False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) by Andrew Hartshorn ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun. The move towards orchestration is a spoiler alert for next year.

Amazing artwork by Gecko

Full track listing for Virtual Normality 2

1. Morning Coffee 
2. Burning Rings of Power 
3. Nun in a Kayak 
4. False Promises (Cosmic Bos Mix) - Andrew Hartshorn ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun 
5. Spaceship Earth

So thanks for checking out our podcast

Please like, share and subscribe

And ratings and comments on your favoured podcasting platform really helps us out, so please consider it. Thanks 

We will do a proper blog about our live shenanigans once all the videos from the festival have been released, but it was a banging day for sure, and so nice to get to play some of these songs in front of an audience.

Here's our link tree for all your Cosmic Bos needs (where if you snoop you can find some of the aforementioned live footage already)

 https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

You can also find the album on Bandcamp right here

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

Here is the youtube link too

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Cosmic Bos Music Podcast presents - Making of an Album Episode 5: Making an Album in a Month (Part 2of2)

 So friends,

We reach the final part of the Making of an Album special presentation that Cosmic Bos have been doing all year long. Here for your listening pleasure is Episode 5: Making an Album in a Month (Part 2)

Welcome to the 5th and final instalment of our Making of an Album series. Andy and Nick continue where they left off last time. The full diary will be published separately.

You can buy the album that was the result of this endeavour right here on bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time

This is the final part of our year long presentation, and the continuation of last months episode, listen to that one to hear the first half of the diary and first 6 songs on the album we made in a month.

Huge shout out to Lights and Lines Record Label for putting on the competition, we (Cosmic Bos) have made loads of new musical contacts and friends as a result of the Album Writing Club and we are excited to see what happens next year ( Album Writing Club 2023! Whoop! Whoop! )

Follow us on Spotify - our podcast is there too.

Songs in this episode are:

1. Stop Saying 1984 to Make a Point
2. Here's Tom with the Weather (Bill Hicks Tribute)
3. Hurricane Came
4. Money Pwease
5. Quilt
6. Closed to the Public

All songs copyright Cosmic Bos 2022

Please like, share and subscribe

Here is the album on bandcamp should you wish to listen and maybe buy a copy

And check us out on YouTube, where video stuff happens and you can comment on it (please comment)

Thanks for being here, we really appreciate it

Have a wonderful day

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos Music Podcast presents - Making of an Album Episode 4: Making an Album in a Month (Part 1of2)

 Oh friends,

In classic Bos style - I present to you the next instalment in the Making of an Album Special Presentation - Episode 4: Making an Album in a Month (Part 1) direct to you from our podcast feed.

Or the YouTube link if you prefer

Welcome to the 4th instalment in our special presentation 'Making of an Album', where Andy and Nick break down the details on music making in the 2020's, and how easy it is to do now. So far they have covered writing, and now they are going to skip over all the technical stuff and just make an album in a month for you over the next two episodes of this special presentation. There is good reason for this, Nick and Andy are creative musicians that know how to use recording equipment, they are not qualified to teach anyone anything about these things, so rather then blag it, they have focused on the process of making an album as an experience rather then the finer details of recording.

Cosmic Bos Making of an Album Episode 4: Making an Album in a Month (Part 1)

For the month of May 2022 Cosmic Bos took on the 'Album in a Month' challenge put on by Lights and Lines Independent record label, and subsequently produced a 12 track album called '2 A.M, it's Mission Time', which is out now

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time

Wisely, throughout the album in a month process, Andy kept a diary of what was going on, and the Brothers filmed all of the recording session so that ample video footage of the album creation existed. You can see some of this already in the video's we put out for 'Isle of Avalon', 'Money Pwease' and 'Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't'.

This podcast represents the first half of both the album, and the diary kept for the month, and takes you through the first half of what we did. There will be an accompanying blog to this episode which will have more waffle about it should you wish to read more.

Part 2 coming next month.

Songs in this episode are :

1. Re:Mission
2. Catch a Clue
3. Bards for Hire
4. Isle of Avalon
5. Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't
6. Patient Mystery

All songs copyright Cosmic Bos 2022

So as promised, this blog contains the links mentioned in the episode, this is that blog, the one you are reading right this second right here right now I tell you what!

Here is F'in Lucky C' by Oxynucid & Vocalizer - still up on youtube even given its umm, questionable language. Not for the faint hearted.

As mentioned in the podcast, we wrote a song 'Step too Far' that is in the same ball park as this old Vocalizer song from back in the long long ago. We will get around to recording it at some point, but it is not priority on our list at the moment.

Also mentioned was my (Andy's) old band The Little Man, which is still out there in the internet, here is the Spotify link that was promised. 

TheLittleManSpotifyLink

Next Month will be Episode 5, Part 2 of the Making an album in a month, but there will be plenty more Cosmic Bos shenanigans before that I can promise you.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

You can find the album on bandcamp and other places, but bandcamp is good for us as artists because you can actually support us (unlike Spotify etc.)

Musical Poems by Cosmic Bos June 2022 - Dusty Shelves, Fragments of a Fracture & How to Tie a Shoes

 Hello friends,

So June has been a month of waiting, waiting to hear about the Album in a month competition that we entered in May, waiting to release some video material (which we here at Cosmic Bos love doing). We will drop the video for Isle of Avalon as soon as the results are in, it will be in our podcast feed and I will no doubt blog about it too.

Anyway, in the meantime, here are 3 musical poems I made on TikTok, using poems from my notepad, and the cool cowboy voice effect.

DUSTY SHELVES

So that's a pan of Brooklands park right next to where I live, and the music is a little instrumental piece called Wordless Wisdom by Cosmic Bos.

FRAGMENTS OF A FRACTURE

Part 1

Part 2

A bit of guitar I recorded down the beach and then put the poem over.

And finally, my personal favourite, HOW TO TIE A SHOES

I have also just launched our new TikTok series called Filter Songs. Check back soon for more of that.

All on our TikTok of course, please go follow us there if you are a user.

Also, our podcast, please check that.

Peace and infinite love

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Nick and Andy Jackson (Cosmic Bos)

Ensemble Story - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

 Hell oh friends,

It's time for a music video, something we here at Cosmic Bos like to make to go along with our songs.

Ensemble Story - Cosmic Bos

Written and recorded by Andy and Nick Jackson

This song was one of the very first experiments in improv(squared) music creation. By improvising a 4 minute sound bed, Cosmic Bos layered on Guitar and Synth, followed by Bass and Vocal, and finally Backing Vocals, to create their 'Ensemble Story'.

Nick and Andy filmed themselves doing this, and that is what you are seeing in the video. Pure visual representation of music creation.

The lyrics were prewritten by Andy, and they go a little something like this:

Cover art by Dayne Howcroft

ENSEMBLE STORY

The weekend brings new music
Old music repackaged
Sounds remixed and reimagined
Sampled sounds of someone banging

Sun will shine some of the time
Under stars from galactic prime
Transitory won’t need glory
Existence is an ensemble story

The moon shows on a cycle
Orbits to plot changes by

Dreams remixed and reimagined
Cold truth leaves us somewhat damaged

Sun won’t shine all of the time
Over these hazy hopes of mine
Mandatory loss of glory
Life is an ensemble story

Song part of Cosmic Bos
Making of an Album podcast

Sit in meditative contemplation
Calmly size up our situation
For all is dust once said and done
Infinite shards of only one

Sun would shine all of the time
Resistance is our only crime
Momentary mandatory
Part of this ensemble story

...

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Cosmic Bos: Bos Live #1 (2021) - Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast Season 4 Ep. 1

 Hello friends,

Happy new season, Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast kicks off Season 4 with a Live Show for you.

Cosmic Bos : Bos Live #1 (2021)

Tracklist: 

1. Take it Easier
2. Sunrise Reflections
   
3. Intentionally
4. Bad Decisions
5. Space Babies
6. Perplexed
7. Rainbow Appearing
8. Ignore the Alarm

All music performed by Joe Philogene (Ngoni & Percussion), Nick Jackson (Electric Guitar & Backing Vocals) and Andy Jackson (Acoustic Guitar & Lead Vocals)

Wowza! Ain't that a whole lotta fun right there. This Live session was recorded back on the 18th of December in the crazy year that was 2021. It was a bit of a rush and a push to try and get it out at the end of the year, so we held back and put it out right now at the start of '22. 

Cosmic Bos performed one gig last year, and we played most of the songs on our live album, and as we had rehearsed up to be all good for our solitary performance, it only seemed sensible to make a recording of our efforts. We are pretty proud of the outcome, what do you recon?

Full visual presentation (which was too big a file to put in the podcast feed) right here for you, served up by the wonderful bots at YouTube.

Coming Soon - Cosmic Bos: Making of an Album Introduction Episode, with some new music and some new business to take care of. Until then though...

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Cosmic Bos - Virtual Normality EP (Season 3 Special Presentation)

 So friends,

As has been customary during our time as podcasters, we here at Cosmic Bos have aimed to do something special presentationey every year of our show. In year 1 we did From the Vault which was a collection of music from Cosmic Bos's hard drives, in year 2 we did From the Songbook, a collection of songs we had written and then recorded live in Nick's living room, so for year 3 we have made an EP of 5 proper recordings for you. Cosmic Bos present, Virtual Normality...

Cover Art by Gecko

Cosmic Bos - Virtual Normality EP

1. Space Babies

2. Take it Easier

3. It's Always You

4. Stay Inside (ft. Texmex Shaman)

5. Ride Another Wave

Available on Spotify Virtual Normality on Spotify

For this special presentation, Nick and Andy sit down to discuss their EP, Virtual Normality, which they recorded over the summer of 2021 with the intention of it being their summer presentation. As is customary for Bos, it got a little delayed and finally came out on the 1st October. Not a problem though, it's not like they work to deadline or anything.

Back Cover Art also by Gecko

So the 5 songs of Virtual Normality all have a story around them, and this podcast explores them, as well as containing a Tea Review, discussion on what the rest of the year has in store for Cosmic Bos (hint, it's quite a bit), chatter about our upcoming gig on November 13th at the Brunswick in Hove, shout outs for New Music Saturday with Dr. Bones and Mike5, and extra special shoutouts to Texmex Shaman for providing the slick guitar work on Stay Inside.

Check him out on Spotify here Texmex Shaman on Spotify

Also, massive shout out to Gecko for the cover and back cover, he is an awesome artist and you should check him out, search iamgecko and marvel at the wondrous, the spectacular, the unbelievable art that he does.

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Here is the YouTube version of Space Babies video

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PS. Here's the record on it's own without Nick and Andy waffling between the tunes

Space Babies - Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality version

 So friends,

From the podcast feed

Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality EP
Cover art by iamgecko

Space Babies (Virtual Normality version)

The opening track on Cosmic Bos's new EP Virtual Normality

This song began life as an improvisation from our 3rd improv album of this year 'Summadelica', with a video idea in place while we were shooting the video for Space Babies improv version. 

With the addition of the 1950's B Movie style intro, and the trimming of some of the music to fit it neatly into 4 minutes, Space Babies explores the concepts of life before life begins, were we all just Space Babies floating about before we came here to be Earth Babies? We like to think the answer is yes, and Baby Theo is attempting to return to that space, in some sense.

So come, marvel at the spectacular, the wondrous, the unbelievable... Babies...In....SPAAAACE!!!!!!

Here's the Youtube version

We have made a few TikTok promo's for the EP, focusing specifically on this song (to begin with, there are other songs prepped for later)

and...

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Baby Theo recognises a UFO when he sees one.

P.S - here is the Spotify embed of the whole Virtual Normality EP, just if you wanted to listen and follow and share etc.

Improvisation 3: Summadelica (ft. Charlie Chaplin, Nelson Mandela, Greta Thunberg and Ram Dass)

 Hello dear friend,

You are looking lovely today, have you done something with your third eye? 

Well, it's August now, and time for another couple of hours of improvised music with a sprinkling of wise words from 4 very powerful speakers.

Cosmic Bos Improvisation 3: Summadelica

Tracklist:

1. Ideas
2. Space Babies
3. On the Take
   
4. Frantic Pedantic
5. Precious Moments
6. Words of Wisdom 5: Charlie Chaplin
7. Rainbow Appearing
8. Perfect Summer Day
9. Words of Wisdom 6: Nelson Mandela
10. Hold On a Little Longer
11. The Things
12. Words of Wisdom 7: Greta Thunberg
13. Pleased, pleased, pleased, with what I've got
14. Words of Wisdom 8: Ram Dass
15. Moral Compass

All music improvised by Cosmic Bos

Joe Philogene - Percussion, Ngoni and various instruments

Nick Jackson - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Synth and Vocals

Andy Jackson - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Synth and Vocals

On the 5th June 2021, Cosmic Bos met at a secret location to record the third in their fully improvised series, with a book full of pre-written lyrics and plenty of snacks. It was a wonderful afternoon of musical exploration, and here for your pleasure is the whole thing, including some of the intros and outros that usually get cut off, there is about 20 mins of it, that is not present on the album version.

The words of wisdoms for this episode where lovingly borrowed from YouTube, with Charlie Chaplin's speech being from the film The Great Dictator (1940) and available on youtube many times, with music accompanying it. Nelson Mandela's speech from his release from prison in 1990 also comes from youtube and shares far to many similarities to Chaplin's speech from 50 years before. Which leads us to Greta Thunberg from December 2019 addressing the UN on Climate Change, with echos of both Chaplin and Mandela.

So as not to feel too down and out about the state of the world and the people that patrol it, the final Words of Wisdom comes from Ram Dass, an ever reliable source of great wisdom. The full Ram Dass speech can be found on the Here and Now podcast, link to the specific episode right here.

https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-love-incarnation/

Here are just the songs without the inbetweeny bits, courtesy of YouTube of all places!

All music and lyrics by Cosmic Bos 2021

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Here is the youtube version of the full episode as well, should you wish to click it

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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

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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

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Also also, here is the YouTube link if the podcast one up above was giving you problems. Have a happy existence.

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).

 The entire visual presentation is available on our YouTube page (please sub us, we Lub a good Sub)

 https://www.youtube.com/cosmicbos

 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

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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

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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.

https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Be Here Now ft. Ram Dass (Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections track 8)

 So friends, part 8

After the Words of Wisdom 3 Ram Dass, the musical adventuring just didn't want to leave the wise guy alone, so for the next song, Ram Dass continues to dish out the tasty wisdom treats while the Bos chaps noodle away in a musical fashion.

Cosmic Bos improved the music, and they are:

Percussion - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar, Synth and Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson

This song is track 8 in the Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections album, which is available from all good music streaming venues, please take your pick

This song is a direct follow on from Words of Wisdom 3, as the music began to swell a vocal called out 'Be Here Now', and the whirlwind swirled us all in, and Ram Dass had to stop talking so the music could take over, and that is how this song was born. 

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Be Here Now is one of Ram Dass's central thesis's, and truly a reflection of what we have been doing here at Cosmic Bos with our improvisation podcast project. 

Ram Dass samples taken from Here and Now podcast, full episode link here 

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Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos