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

MMC 1.3 - Ignorance (Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast) 27 songs for you, no soup though I'm afraid

 Hello lovely you,

Welcome to the blog for the new episode of Monthly Music Challenge podcast

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.3 - Ignorance

 Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) are the idiots here to take you through the 27 songs of the third month of the challenge. The main monthly theme was #Ignorance and 13 of the songs you will hear today were written around that idea. 

 Thanks to the amazing people of Music Weeklies we managed to secure some other wonderful songs through the other hashtags of March 2023, and we also introduce a new section at the end of the podcast called Late Subs, so if you want to get in on the Monthly Music Challenge action you can send us songs based on the previous Monthly hashtags (1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, and now 3. Ignorance) for a chance to be played in the Late Subs.

 Before we delve into the full tracklist, it's our pleasure to announce the next hashtag for the MMC, so MMC 1.4 will be #Winning. We are not paired with the Music Weeklies peeps on this one, so there is no pressure to get your monthly song finished in a week.

 Get your #Winning songs in to us by 5th May 2023 please, if you are new to the MMC then send an MP3 with a bio about yourself to cosmicbos@gmail.com , without further adoing let's get on with the show.

 Ignorance Songs

  1. Idiots - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos  

  2. Ignorance - Mobidextrous @mobidextrous9777  

  3. Ignorance - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey  

  4. Artificial Ignorance - Graham Casey 

  5. Ignorance - Dario Erico @Deadarius  

  6. Wilful Ignorance - Trench Gun @trenchgunM1897  

  7. MuWee Ignorance - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh  

  8. Ignorance - The Shiver One @theshiverone1977  

  9. The Size of the Stars - Notehead 

 10. I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler   

 11. Eden - Andrew Hartshorn @andrewhartshornmusic  

 12. Without Your Love - ASeaWarren @aseawarren  

 13. Ignorance (Boris Johnson) - Reuben Cooper  

Now that's a lot of great ignorance songs right there, some returning players and a couple of new faces, go check out all these amazing artists on their socials

 UpsideDown Songs

  14. Down for the Upside - Cosmic Bos  

  15. Free Flow - Notehead 

  16. Downside Up - Esky013 

GodsOfOlympus Songs

  17. Gods and Goddesses of Olympus - Cosmic Bos 

  18. Ares God of War - Michel Debois  @micheldebois  

MW200thTheme Songs

  19. Reflections of our Inescapable Humanity (No Soup for You) - Cosmic Bos 

  20. Because it was - Man of Arun @ManOfArun  

  21. Post Apocalyptic - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler    

PainoSolo Songs

  22. Reflections in the Ethereal Water - Ashen Music  @ashenmusicofficial  

  23. Ivory and Ebony - Cosmic Bos  

Late Subs (Brand new section we added on for all the late submissions)

  24. Escape This! - TexMex Shaman 

  25. Pretend to Escape - Colin Pimlott @colinpimlott9029  

  26. Love Restored -  The Word Alchemist and Cosmic Bos   

  27. Let the Shaman Show You Round -  @TexMexShaman  and Cosmic Bos  

That's ya lot, and it sure is a lot, a lot of great music.

 We (Cosmic Bos) put all of our tracks out in a handy EP, which coincidently has the same name as this episode of the podcast, MMC 1.3 - Ignorance, you can get it on bandcamp here

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-13-ignorance

 And you can find video versions of all of our entries on youtube on our channel here

And here is the youtube playlist of the Monthly Music Challenge

Please check out all the amazing musicians of the MMC, their socials will be pleased, help us build this community of true grass roots musicians, tell your musical friends to come get involved, it's still really early days with this, and together we can make it a force to reckon with, an alternative music industry of creative expression. Also, don't forget the next theme is #Winning, so get making your winning songs.

 Thanks for being awesome

We love you

Please like, share and subscribe 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Direct podcast page - https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

MMC Playlist on youtube again just in case you missed it above

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.2 - Escape (ft. 25 songs all made in Feb 2023)

 Hello friends,

Welcome to Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast, episode 1.2 - Escape

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.2 - Escape

Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) are here to guide you through the wonderfully creative set of 25 songs (that's right! 25 chooons for you) all built around the hashtags of Feb 2023 (#Escape, #Freedom, #StandOut & #Family)set by the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies (check out the community on Twitter) favouring the first one of course, as that is the monthly challenge.

Before we delve deep into this bag of music, so you know what the challenge is for March, the next episode will be MMC 1.3 - #Ignorance - so get writing your ignorance songs to submit to the podcast, closing date 7th April. Okay, business out the way, let's get down to, err, business.

Escape songs

• 1. Make Good Our Escape (Monthly version) - Cosmic Bos
• 2. Break Out - Trench Gun
• 3. Escape - Peter Hawkey
• 4. Run - Steve 3rd Echo Sounds
• 5. Scrambling Free - Graham Casey
• 6. Escape - Scowsh Molosh
• 7. Escape - Mobidextrous
• 8. How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek
• 9. Dance (Escape the Week) - Mijimo
• 10. Endure and Survive - Aaliya Mondesir (Lovely Mango)
• 11. Escape - ASeaWarren
• 12. The Fall of Icarus - Andrew Hartshorn
• 13. Escapist - Notehead
• 14. 7749 - Hellwaddler

Wowsa! What a line up! Some returning players and some newbies to the MMC, go check out all these amazing artists on Twitter.

Freedom songs

• 15. But What Does Freedom Mean? - Cosmic Bos
• 16. Disenfranchised - Trench Gun
• 17. Watching the Sky - Hellwaddler
• 18. Price of Freedom is Death - Stefan Bohacek

StandOut songs

• 19. Stand Out - Cosmic Bos
• 20. Stand Out There - David Patterson
• 21. Out Standing - Cosmic Bos

Family songs

• 22. Muwee Family Nintendo tracker - Scowsh Molosh
• 23. Family Plan - Mobidextrous
• 24. Family Tree - Cosmic Bos

And that's all the hashtag songs, Outer Galactic shout out to all the amazing musicians that sent in their tracks, you guys are awesome and we love all of you, let's spread the word and get even more creative, talented musicians involved.

We added a little bonus feature to the end of this show too, as we are evolving this idea and watching it take shape. We were asked by The Word Alchemist to do an instrumental version of one of Nick's older songs, which we did, and then it seemed only natural to add the vocal and before we knew it we had a fully finished song.

So, we launch this new feature into the Monthly Music Challenge by in which, if the inspiration from the hashtag of the month isn't grabbing you, you can raid your musical archive and spruce up, rework or simply redo something from your songbook, we are calling this section 

FromTheSongbook songs

And Cosmic Bos are going first with this, so here's the first entry to the Songbook section of the MMC

• 25. Heart Holder - Cosmic Bos

Heart Holder was originally recorded by Cosmic Bos as part of a special presentation in Season 2 of our podcast, and it's a totally banger, with Nick taking the lead vocal and the guitars pumping it all up. It was fun doing a proper recording of it, and as is the usual Bos way, we will see where this feature goes, we have plenty of songs in our own songbooks which may appear here...

You can purchase our full EP on bandcamp

Thanks for listening, please like, share and subscribe, and leave us a review on your podcasting platform of choice (it helps spread the word and build our musical community)

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos - climb our tree of links

Also here is the direct podcast homepage https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

Also YouTube does us quite well, and the full podcast is available there too, so here's that link

Coming Up Next Month is Monthly Music Challenge 1.3 - Ignorance, get making those songs 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Oh and, check out this amazing Midnight Gospel style artwork of Andy from Cosmic Bos (Thanks Dayne, we love you)

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Monthly Music Challenge #MMC1 with Cosmic Bos - Introduction

 Hello wonderful you,

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)

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Here's the Youtube link to the podcast episode.

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Check out our band camp for musical purchases

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

Songs found on this introduction episode are all by Cosmic Bos

1. The Drunky Song (for #Drunk)
2. You Find Out When You Die (for #Afterlife)
3. Morning Coffee acoustic (for #MorningCoffee)
4. Morning Coffee Full Blend version (from Virtual Normality 2)

Links for all of these can be found on our YouTube page

Cosmic Bos YouTube Channel

Please like, share and subscribe, we love you

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

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

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)

Cosmic Bos - 2 A.M, it's Mission Time - OUT NOW! Come pick up your copy on bandcamp

 Hello friends,

The time has finally arrived, here is the album we made for the Lights and Lines Album in a Month competition - 2 A.M, it's Mission Time

Buy now on bandcamp. 

Containing the 4 singles 

Isle of Avalon - This was the song we submitted to the Singles playlist for public voting. It didn't win the vote but we are none the less proud of it. A deeply mature song from a couple of usual idiots.

Catch a Clue - Our first release once the results came in and we discovered we had picked up a Judges Choice Award. We had this one ready to go as soon as the results were in..

Money Pwease - the second official single (after Catch a Clue), this is my (Andy) personal favourite track on the album along with 'Quilt'. Based around spiritual scammers and the wonderful phrase 'Money Pweeeeeeeease' made famous by Jenny Slate on Parks and Recreation (Cosmic Bos LOVES Parks & Rec)

Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't - the last single we put out, featuring the amazing talents of Mr. Joe Philogene. This song is a philosophical exploration of rightness, and how we don't have it.

We wrote the whole album in a month, including another song that didn't even make it to the final list (we didn't record the vocal so it never stood a chance). A special two part podcast detailing our process and exploring the 12 tracks of the album coming super soon (well, part 1 is...). We also won a Judges Choice Award for the album, big thanks to Lights and Lines for putting on such a wonderful competition.

The album can be found on Youtube music right here in a handy playlist

And if you are a Spotify user, it's there too

Have a wonderful day, and don't forget to buy our album, like, share and subscribe to all our stuff, forever and ever, until the internet dies and we are all forced to return to conventional ways of interacting, like actually seeing each other (shudder).

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

 So friends,

Only a week till the album drops, here's a little present for you from it.

Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't

Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't - Cosmic Bos

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

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/ 

Music by Andy Jackson, Nick Jackson and Joe Philogene.

Lyrics by Andy Jackson

Mixed and Mastered by Nick Jackson

This song is one of two that feature the phenomenal talents of Mr. Joe Philogene on the Ngoni and percussion. Massive thank you to Joe for helping us make such deep music.

The whole album was made in a month as part of the @lightsandlines album in a month challenge, and we picked up a Judges Choice Award for our efforts. 

Please like, share and subscribe

#newmusic #ngoni #awardwinning #ukmusic #cosmicbos

There is plenty more to come in the Summer of Bos, with more TikTok Filter fun, some live stuff and of course the full ruddy album!

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here is the YouTube playlist of all our music videos from 2022 so far :)

2 A.M, it's Mission Time Track List

 Hello friends,

Summer of Bos has restarted, took a little 3 day break, but we are back ready for the release of our album on the 19th August.

All 12 songs we made for the Album in a Month challenge are there, you can already hear tracks 2, 4 and 10 on youtube, and track 1 can be found in our previous podcast episode. Can't wait to share the rest of it with you.

You will be able to buy the album on the 19th, and hear it in all the usual places too

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Money Pwease - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

 New Blog, new single by Cosmic Bos,

Welcome to the blog about Cosmic Bos new single 'Money Pwease'

Here is the podcast version for you to click on, and maybe subscribe, maybe!

You can buy the single from bandcamp, it's a bit pricey, but well worth it as all the money goes to Cosmic Bos (and a bit to bandcamp probably).

cover for our new single

Andy and Nick ponder the big question on everyones mind, how do we get money? As musicians, it's a tough one indeed, no one wants to part their hard earned money for music anymore, it truly isn't like the good old days when people actually spent money on music. But it isn't only music that has suffered, all the art forms have really, and the door has been opened up for the demons to come and sell us on a great many dreams, salvations and freedoms that are just round this corner right here, but you can't go just yet, you have to give us the money pwease.null

The song title is the catchphrase of Mona-lisa from Parks and Recreation, one of the greatest shows ever made. It was one of the first songs written for the album in a month, and it was developed by smashing two ideas together, one being a song about Parks and Rec, the other being a song about scammers, thematically they merged pretty well we thought.

Here is the YouTube version

Full album coming 19th August, another single coming before that, and the Summer of Bos rolls onwards, with plenty more TikTok Filter Song shenanigans and some live streaming coming up.

Thanks for being awesome sauce

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - new Cosmic Bos Music Podcast Season 4 2022 cover out now too

Catch a Clue - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video) New Single

 Why hello there,

I trust you are keeping well. Just wanted to share with you our new single 'Catch a Clue' and the many locations you can find it.

Firstly - our podcast feed. Please subscribe to our show on whatever podcast platform you prefer to use, we are on all of them.

Secondly - YouTube baby! Please, please, please go and subscribe to us there, and comment, tell us what you think of our musical output?

@c0smicb0s New Single out now #cosmicbos #musicvideo #80smusic #newmusic #followus #bandcamp #youtube #catchaclue ♬ original sound - Cosmic Bos

Thirdly - TikTok! Of course, everything is on TikTok now, including us. Please follow us there and comment and share, we love you. The link above is your TikTok one.

The cover for the single

You get a slightly different version of the video on the TikTok, we added some old filter action using the vast array of effects available on the TT. 

Fourthly - Bandcamp. Where you can support us with money, by buying the song, or purchasing one of our other fine albums that frequent the camp.

Fifthly - Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc. We are all over these things too, and waiting for subscriptions from you.

Wow that took a while to get through, and there are plenty more unmentioned locations too, I just don't have the time to list them all, I'm busy making the most of the amazing UK beach weather at the moment.

So Catch a Clue, the second song made available from our Judges Choice Award Winning album '2 A.M, it's Mission Time', coming 19th August to an everywhere near you, is our shot at an 80's style dance tune with a talky rap vocal and a wordy chorus.  What do you recon? Any good?

Thanks for visiting our humble blog, love ya for that.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Making of an Album Episode 3: Alternative Writing Techniques

 Hello friends, 

Cosmic Bos march onwards with the third episode in the Making of an Album series, this time discussing alternative music creating/writing techniques.

Welcome to Episode 3 of our Making of an Album series

For this episode, Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) take you through a selection of alternative writing techniques, discussing The Beatles contribution to the world of songwriting, in particular their later more experimental work, to the general explosion of alternative techniques of music creation that came about in the 1960's.

After that, Cosmic Bos turn their attention to their own writing techniques, breaking down the
improvisation process, following the trajectory of 'Rainbow Appearing', a song improvised last year in the 3rd full improvisation session (Summadelica), through to it's development for live performance and preparing the song to be an album contender. 

After improvisation comes improv-revisation, the basis of the first two seasons of Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast, where the music was improvised and then revised in the edit. The boys discuss this and play an example song 'Hold Me in Slow Motion'.

After Improv-revisation comes Improv Squared, Cosmic Bos's current alternative writing technique, essentially a mash up of improvisation and improv-revisation. Nick and Andy talk you through this with an example song 'Badder Decisions' from their Improv Squared album - Petit Champignon de Lumiere 

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/improv-squared-petite-champignon-de-lumiere

To conclude the episode, Nick and Andy put together a brand new improv squared song called 'The More You Learn, The Less You Know', a video for which will be available in the another blog.

The Instrumental version of 'The More You Learn, The Less You Know' will be available on bandcamp for you to come up with you own vocals to if you so please.

If you wish to participate in future Improv Squared shenanigans please email us at cosmicbos@gmail.com 

Please like, share, comment and subscribe

Peace and Infinite Love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here is the YouTube link to the episode, should you not like the above direct podcast link.

Cosmic Bos - Improv Squared : Petite Champignon de Lumiere (album and podcast presentation)

 Hello dearest friends,

Welcome to the blog that accompanies Cosmic Bos Improv Squared : Petite Champignon de Lumiere

The podcast with the most improvisation for your money, in their newest experiment, Cosmic Bos serve up an Inception level of improv, where it is mathematically stacked, layered up with extra instrumentation, and then presented in it's final song form for your very ears. It is improvisation, squared, hence its name. 

For our first full helping of Improv Squared, we serve up 11 musical courses, ranging from the worldly starter, to the meaty main course, to the sweet desserts and back round again, in a strained metaphor that is bigger then the bowl it is trying to fill.

Here is the full tracklist: 

1. Champignon, Lumiere (ft. Joe Philogene & the Cosmic Bos Family Choir)
2. Faded Memories (Lyrics by Dayne Howcroft)
3. Astral Underwear
4. Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See
5. Vaccine (ft. Chris Mace)
6. Back is Back (ft. Chris Mace)
7. Badder Decisions (ft. Joe Philogene)
8. Magic Fun Guy (ft. Donny Stax)
9. Ensemble Story
10. Talking Frog (ft. Joe Philogene & Ram Dass)
11. Forever Bruised (Lyrics by Dayne Howcroft)

This has been an absolute joy to work on, and the future for improv squaring looks very bright, with several artists already waiting in the wings to be part of the next Improv Squared album. Very excited to get moving on the next phase of this experiment, whilst we continue our 'Making of an Album' series of podcasts (and well, making an actual normal album). If you have a few spare pennies could you do us a favour and go buy the album on bandcamp? it would mean the world to us.

On band camp you can buy the album from this link here.

We have been working away on video content for Improv Squared for a while now, with the first single we put out 'Faded Memories' being a simple one shot of Nick and I (Andy) playing the first round of the improvisation (Guitars and Vocal), we subsequently added Bass and Synths and another cheeky Electric Guitar to the mix in improv rounds 2 and 3. The lyrics were written by Dayne Howcroft, with the rough chord structure having been constructed before starting. A pretty loose Improv Squared, but it's a banger.

'Ensemble Story' was the second first single (we released them all as double A sides) and that was purely just Nick and I (Andy still, haven't changed writer mid sentence) doing 3 rounds of improv. We had seen Elbow perform a few weeks prior, and this song certainly feels a bit Elbowish. The lyric is from my Book of Songs (B.o.S) and was melodically improvised on the spot.

'Astral Underwear' was the third song released with a video, which is similar to Ensemble Story, except this time with some crazy overlays more like the improvisation videos with Joe Philogene. This track was the first Improv Squared song we ever made (although it was followed on the same evening by Ensemble Story).

'Forever Bruised' was the fourth song, and another lyric by Dayne Howcroft. This song was kept acoustic and raw, to reflect the depth of the lyrics, and the video is another one shot of just Nick and Andy (that's me, just in case you were unsure who was writing this blog).

'Vaccine' was the fifth song, and this one required some extra special video treatment. We have had Green Screen facemasks sitting around ready for a music video for a couple of years now, when facemasks became the fashion to have, we figured it only made sense to get green screen versions. So we did, but didn't really know what to do with them, until now, and the song 'Vaccine', which features Chris Mace coming on an improv squared adventure with us, and the Cosmic Bos Family Choir appearing in the trippy video.

There is further video action to come from this record, with 'Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See' coming next weekend (with a Eurotrash inspired video I think you will like) and plans in place for a truly epic dance video for 'Back is Back'. So stick around, subscribe to our shenanigans where you can, and stay as amazing as you clearly are.

So from Baby Theo and Uncle Andy, from the set of 'Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See', we say some things in French and probably eat some cheese. 

Have a wonderful day

We love ya

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here is the Youtube link if that is how you like your podcast

And here are all the video's that go along with Improv Squared

Stay Amazing

Vaccine - Cosmic Bos Improv Squared (Official Music Video)

 Hello friends,

With the full album coming out very soon (1st April in fact), Cosmic Bos would like to turn your attention towards our latest single 'Vaccine'.

It is advised that you listen to the song at least twice to make sure you are fully Vaccinated, but for complete coverage it is advised you listen at least once a day.

This song has been released alongside a companion A side, 'Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See' which will be getting the video treatment too, we just haven't finished it yet (it has been filmed, just needs editing)

The music for Vaccine was made by doing layered improvisation, with our special guest Chris Mace joining the Bos bro's, meaning only two rounds were needed (although we may have done three rounds, I scares remember). The music was then matched up with a previously written poem by Andy Jackson called 'Vaccine'. 

Here is the original full poem

VACCINE by Andy Jackson

The world is a scary and dangerous place

But based on the numbers, the human race

Is doing just peachy and spreading out quickly

You can tell coz the host body’s getting quite sickly

Could it be true, just like the flu

We are the virus, the variants too

Earth did some healing when we stared at the ceiling,

Imagine if earth gets the vaccine for you

Sure we are clever and built for adaption

But Gia’s been having an allergic reaction 

She’s depleted and requires serious attention 

It’s unmediated, A Greta intervention 

We are the virus, earth is the host

She’s having a stroke, can you smell burning toast?

We’ve got to act fast, we risk getting the ghost

If toxic shock sets in we’ve an hour at most

Harmonious living tween host and microbes 

The employees are wearing the emperor’s clothes

Earthquake, tsunamis, volcanos and fires

Are vaccines for us, the deadliest virus

Heart disease, cancer, common colds and flu 

Are all types of vaccine, if the virus is you

So bigger picture, it isn’t all gloom

Let’s change our behaviour, there’s still wiggle room 

Old ways of thinking should remain in the tomb

Stop staring at Lara with a hundred times zoom

We are just moments on a timeline of plenty

We enter with nothing and pretend we aren’t empty 

But once we’re fulfilled any more is just greedy

The overspill should be providing the needy

And anything we take we give in return 

Earth owe us nothing, we need to learn

Ignorance is letting half of the world burn

Self fulfilling vaccine as the tables turn 

...

Few more words there then in the song, but there was no way to fit the whole poem in so it got a little butchered to fit the music.

Coming of the 1st April is the full album Cosmic Bos Improv Squared: Petite Champignon de Lumiere

11 tracks, all in some way crafted using our new music making technique, Improv Squared. Including the singled 'Faded Memories', 'Ensemble Story', 'Astral Underwear', 'Forever Bruised', 'Vaccine' and 'Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See'.

As previously mentioned, there is another video to come for this album, and then potentially another one after that for the song 'Back is Back'. More on that to follow.

The album will also be getting a bandcamp release to hopefully get us some much needed revenue.

Thanks for being awesome

Please leave us a comment, or share this with your friends

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here's the YouTube version for anyone who prefers their music videos served up in that particular fashion, or if the podcast one above doesn't work.

Making of an Album Episode 2: Traditional Writing Techniques (Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast Season 4)

 Well hello dear friends,

Welcome to episode 2 of our Making of an Album series, this time (as you already know from having read the title of this blog) we tackle song writing, in particular, traditional song writing techniques.

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Album artwork by Dayne Howcroft

Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) collectively have several hundred songs to their names, and here they breakdown the fundamentals of songwriting, examining structure and form, before writing a song in front of your very ears.

Visited several times throughout the episode, Nick and Andy sat over two sessions and wrote a song from start to finish. Here we try to show you the creative process in its raw state.

Nick and Andy also talk about the history of songwriting, as well as their own personal histories of songwriting, including several examples from their songbooks.

The first proper song you hear in this episode is Astral Underwear, a song that Cosmic Bos created using their new musical construction method, Improv Squared (More on this in the next episode).

In the middle of the episode you are treated to two songs from Andy and Nicks songbooks.

Love Defined is by Andy Jackson and is about his wife

Spontaneous Plan is by Nick Jackson and is about his wife

Both songs are available on Cosmic Bos From the Songbook (2020), and right here in youtube form too

Email cosmicbos@gmail.com with your favourite wife

The episode concludes with our other double A side single 'Forever Bruised', which is acoustically written music by Andy and Nick over a haunting poem by Dayne Howcroft.

This was a rollercoaster ride to make, and we loved it, hopefully there is something useful and insightful about our ramblings about writing songs, and we also hope that we have demystified the process a bit, and shown how really anyone could write songs if it was what they wanted to do. 

If you want to get involved in our musical shenanigans drop us an email at cosmicbos@gmail.com 

We also really appreciate feedback, and would love to hear your own songwriting stories, comment on this post or better yet, comment on the youtube video version of this episode so we can all share the musical love. 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Astral Underwear - Cosmic Bos Improv(Squared) (Official Music Video)

 Hello lovely friends,

Astral Underwear - Cosmic Bos

From the upcoming album

Improv Squared - Petit Champignon de Lumiere 

Andy and Nick created this song using improvisation layering, the beat, bass and synth were played in first round, then vocals and more synth, then backing vocals. Filming each round, the video was made by boxing up the performance and overlaying some stock footage.

The lyric was prewritten by Andy in the Book of Songs (or BoS as we call it) and it reads a little something like this...

ASTRAL UNDERWEAR

Artwork by Dayne Howcroft

Sitting still, at a desk, with a tie flopped on my chest
Counting seconds, lunchtime beacons, need the valuable rest
It’s hard on the knees, with legs lazy as these
Every movement, needs improvement, I won’t pass the test

But who cares?
The outside world is cruel and unfair
They stare
But no-one can see my astral underwear
I’m here
And simultaneously everywhere
I’m this
And everything else in between

Sit around, from sat to seated, shower, bed, repeat repeated
Counting days, rest is coming, long time been defeated
It’s hard on the head, cycling, work, home, bed
These energy levels are vastly depleted
Oh these energy levels are vastly depleted

But who cares?
The social world is cruel and unfair
Don’t share
Your invincible astral underwear
You’re here
Whilst simultaneously everywhere
Your you
And everything you ever want to do

While in astral clothing
Banish self loathing
Become anything you desire

Guarantee it will suit you
From flower to cashew
Be seagull, be water, be fire

Be anything you can desire
Be anything you can desire

...

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And if you would like to feature in an upcoming Improv Squared song, email us at cosmicbos@gmail.com for details.

Astral Underwear is paired with another song 'Forever Bruised' which is available on Spotify, Amazon etc. and will get it's own video treatment next weekend. It is quite the polar opposite as far as songs go, with a raw acoustic sound and powerful lyrics by Dayne Howcroft. 

Thanks for being awesome, we love ya

YouTube version for ya

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Coming 1st March is the next instalment in our Making of an Album series, check it out.