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.

Brand New - Cosmic Bos Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's 100 year old cartoon music video

 Hello friends,

So 'Brand New' is the final old film presentation from our album The COVID 1920's, and hopefully you will get a kick out of it. The song is beautifully sung by Nick, and it is the final song on our yearly slate, ending the album.

The cartoon from 100 years ago happens to be an interesting blueprint for Tom and Jerry, and later Itchy and Scratchy, fascinating stuff indeed.

As the year is nearing its close, we have one final Words of Wisdom presentation to come, and then we will end the year with our Best of Season 3. Thank you for all your support this year, it has been a wild ride in the improvised musical podcast land, and we will be making some changes to the formula for our 4th season.

Please like, share and subscribe to our podcast, wherever you get your podcast, and a review goes a long way, so if you've got a minute, please leave us a review.

Have a wonderful day

Cosmic Bos

Feel the World - Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections (track 6 of 13)

 Hello friends,

Track 6 of our Sunrise Reflections is the magical Feel the World

The 6th outing from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections is the beautiful song Feel the World, accompanied by some stunning nature photography.

Percussion and Vocals - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic Guitar and Backing Vocals - Andy Jackson

Feel the World - lyrics by Joe Philogene

One Heart,

One Soul,

One Mind

Feel the World

Utilising a selection of percussive instruments (including the spinny round the head wwoooooo making thing) Joe leads the chant to Mother Earth, and we spend some time in the relaxing forest making sweet fairy music for all of the wonders that surround us.

Cosmic Bos are big fans of the World, it's pretty neat, and we think that it deserves more attention, some more songs about it, especially after all it's done for us. We are somewhat ungrateful children to the Earth, and it really is time we tidied our room before the threat of no dinner becomes an actuality.

Spend time outside, go and feel the world in your lungs, let the bird song enrich your soul, let the breeze tickle your senses, and remember that we are all part of the same thing, we are all in this together (cough, Mr Bezos!).

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We also have a podcast where the improvised musical adventure takes place every month. 

https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Intentionally - Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections (track 5 of 13)

 So friends, intentionally,

The fifth track from Improv 2 finds us back with a set of lyrics to contemplate existence and some trippy visuals to sooth the eyes.

Percussions - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson

Intentionally - lyrics by Andy Jackson

Intentionally slowing down

Potentially turn this frown

Upside down and inside out

See what this is all about

Trickery came thick at me 

Distorted all reality

But truth wins eventually 

Tunnelling through intentionally 

Intentionally freaking out

Sucking juice from seeds of doubt

Drafting up the backless gown

Mooning the entire town

Trickery comes down the line

Causing shifts in fickle time 

But truth will win the vintage wine

Intentionally solving the crime 

Intentionally, Potentially, Intentionally

On a simple chord sequence, the Bos chaps present a haunting tale of intentions, facing the trickery that we face daily, not being afraid to stand up for ourselves, be questioning, don't just accept apathy, be present in the moment so you can live your life with intention, intentionally.

Joe beats the frame drums to the rhythm of our souls, while Nick wails the woes with the electric and Andy teaches his acoustic a lesson in strumming. Fun stuff indeed. This song, like all the previous songs in this presentation has begun it's journey as an improvisation, come up with there and then, with the pre-written lyrics serving as a guide for some thoughtful rhymes and vibes, when the lyrics are left to also be improvised they tend to lean towards the silly side of the spectrum rather then the profound.

The full episode and album are available.

Our podcast feed is a fun place, come check it out

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Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Time is Now - Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections (track 1 of 13)

 Hello lovely friends,

Welcome to the introductory part of our special presentation

Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2 : Sunrise Reflections

We start at the beginning, as everything must, the Time is Now

Cover for Improvisation 2

Sunrise is such a wonderful time of the day, 

Time is Now - Cosmic Bos Improvisation

Percussion - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar & Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic, Synth & Vocals - Andy Jackson

When we begin one of our improvised journeys we have to set the levels of the microphones and things, you know, technical stuff, but the music starts before we can sort out all that. This song is us testing out the recording levels, and it came out alright, so it opens this journey.

Letting the music decide the course of the journey is exciting, and utilising a little bit of editing trickery, we have been able to project sunrises all around us. So our journey begins with Sunrise, the time is now, and our journey will be full of reflections of this opening moment, it's time to come get lost with Cosmic Bos.

Our music makes good meditation music, or just general chilling out, it's relaxing not taxing, thank you for taking the time to explore these awesome creative realms with us, sharing and commenting helps spread the peace and rhythm, we do this for the music.

Check out the full playlist of our improvised musical musings right here courtesy of YouTube (it's this little video site, you might of heard of it)

Thanks for your time, we love you

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Words of Wisdom 1: Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce with improvised music by Cosmic Bos

 So friends,

Here we present to you an idea that has been banging around for quite a while now, an improvised musical journey with a wise speaker over the top, and where better to start such an idea then with the one and only Terence McKenna.

So for your wisdom today, Cosmic Bos Improvisation presents

Words of Wisdom 1: Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce

Terence McKenna ladies and gentlemen, what a legend.

The Terence and Mark sample is taken from an awesome podcast called the Psychedelic Salon, which has been around for a long time, putting out amazing talks by some brilliant and insightful minds.

Link to the full talk here https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-116-techno-pagans-at-the-end-of-history/

Humanity stands at a pivotal point in history, the now moment is changing so rapidly that it appears impossible to have a grasp on reality, we have all been hoodwinked and are stumbling around dazed and confused, but not to worry, for clarity comes once dust settles and calm befalls us all, for the storm can not rage forever, and hate eventually gets tired and goes to sleep for a bit.

Thank you for spending some of your time with us here at the Cosmic Blog, you are wonderful and great things will happen for you, so go get it Tiger (I am obviously assuming that the main audience base for this blog is large cat based, skewing towards Lions, Tigers, Panthers etc. as well as domesticated felines of course, this is for the cats).

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Also our podcast https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com , available where you get your podcast from

And our Spotify

Good things for your ears

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Currency - Improvisation by Cosmic Bos

 So dear friends,

Here is an improvised meditative video for you

We here at @Cosmic Bos started a new project very recently, we did a test/pilot from which two videos surfaced (Perplexed and Ride the Waves)

and then went straight to series, because we don't wait around for anyone to tell us what to do, we're our own bos! 

Joe Philogene on Ngoni and Percussion 

Nick Jackson on Electric Guitar

Andy Jackson on Acoustic Guitar and Vocals

The lyric was made up on the spot

it's just...

Pennies, line the jar

Pennies, travelled from afar

Can, can we, accept trouble in ?! (not sure)

Currency

Currently

Is losing it's meaning, it's losing it's meaning

...

and that's it, it's like a low grade version of Money by Pink Floyd, with less cash registers and far less lyrics.

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So anyway, please subscribe to our lovely channel for more improvised peacefulness, and also some crazy music videos we made to music we improvised and then revised in a secret lab deep underground run by mole people (that is not just a code name, they are Literally MOLE/people hybrids, we didn't make them, we only employ them at a very reasonable price.)

Check out our podcast for further things:

Our Direct Podcast link 

also on #spotify #itunes #amazon etc. all them lovely places

#meditationmusic #improvisedmusic 

Full album on youtube and Spotify too

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Not Babylon or Rome - improvisation by Cosmic Bos

 So friends,

It's May already, and may I be the first to say, Hooray Hooray Bo Diddily Day (no one else is ever going to say that probably)

Please check out our podcast if that's the kind of thing you are into, it's where we do our long form improvising and improv-revising.

NOT BABYLON OR ROME

It was fun while it lasted

Just the one more , I’m plastered

Pickled mind you take your tears home

These gardens aren’t Babylon or Rome

Escaping the rooms of your mind

Demons have gone and redesigned 

Take all those failings, chain them to the railings

This isn’t Babylon or Rome

Statues of virtually anyone’s victory

Carvings itself over all of our history

Devilish details hiding in old tales

Cast down from Babylon and Rome

You’ll reach these conclusions on your own

This was never Babylon or Rome

And subscribe to our Youtube and leave us lovely comments, please, we will pay you in soothing improvised music we promise

So thanks for your time, hope you are making the most of it

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

You can find the whole improvised session on Spotify right here

Cosmic Bos Improvisation 1: Soundscapes in the Moment (ft. Terence McKenna, Mark Pesce and Robert Anton Wilson)

 Dear Friends,

Love you all so very much, thank you for visiting us today, we present to you, 2 hours of meditative improvised music with some words of wisdom sprinkled on.

Cosmic Bos Improvisation 1: Soundscapes in the Moment

https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com/improvisation-1-soundscapes-in-the-moment-ft-terence-mckenna-mark-pesce-and-robert-anton-wilson - direct podcast link straight to your fingertips or click pointer thing.

Ngoni & Percussion - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar, Synths and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson

On the 3rd of April (Easter Saturday) 2021, Joe, Nick and Andy sat down and improvised two hours of music, this podcast is the unedited full set, with some words of wisdom added near the end by the great minds of Terence McKenna, Mark Pesce and Robert Anton Wilson. Designed to take you to a deep cosmic stillness, connecting you into the universe using the ancient art of making stuff up on the spot.

Tracklist:

1. Currency
2. Not Babylon or Rome
3. Like Minded
4. Perplexed
5. Metrics of Success
6. Yarway
7. Share
   
8. Crazy-go-round
9. Words of Wisdom 1: Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce
10. Sounding Gap
11. Words of Wisdom 2: Robert Anton Wilson

The words of wisdom were taken from the Psychedelic Salon podcast, available on all good podcasting sites and well worth a listen if you fancy some deep thinking lectures without improvised music underneath.

If you are a user of YouTube, then please subscribe to our channel and watch all our lovely videos, this album is available in full there

Peace be the journey

Find all our lovely improvised and improv-revised music on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc. search for Cosmic Bos improvisation 

Here is the Spotify link to the album version

Thank you for your time, we love you very much

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Like Minded - Cosmic Bos Improvisation (full improv session coming 1st May)

 Hello lovely friends,

At the beginning of April, around Easter time, Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and myself (Andy Jackson) met for a day of improvising music. We had previously tested a day of music together which had produced a couple of exciting improvisations (Perplexed and Ride the Waves) from within our experimentations. This led to the full days improvisation, which subsequently produced almost 2 hours of music, which has been segmented up into 11 songs.

Two of these songs have some words of wisdom placed on top, which you shall get to hear soon, but until then please enjoy this first release from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 1: Soundscapes in the Moment - Like Minded.

We had filmed quite a bit of our days improvising, and there has been some lush sunrises and sunsets recently, so merging these two things made sense. Here are the full lyrics to Like Minded.

LIKE MINDED

Be like the flow of the river

like the wind to the bee

And if that doesn’t work 

try being more like me

Be smart as a sweetie

Avoid all hefty fees 

Although paper does,

Money don’t come from trees

Like a clerk in an office

Or the girl out to sea

Lonely, if only

They could be here with me

Like rust in the workings

Like sun bleached tapestry

Forgot to remember 

What a memory could be

Like radio silence on the TV

Like visual radioactivity

The passive aggression 

And stark futility

Remember to always forget

You're worth more then you'll ever get

Remember to always forget

Your meal still isn’t ready yet

I wrote these while sitting on the beach and watching the world go by, the day before we did the recording session. Just a little fun fact for you there.

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We will drop a similar video to this one for the song 'Not Babylon or Rome' in the next couple of days, and the full album and podcast version will be along on Saturday 1st May, Hooray!

Thanks for all your support, we love you

Cosmic Bos

Ride the Waves - Improvised Cosmic Bos Acoustic ft. Joe Philogene

 Hello lovely friends,

Here for you is the second improvised song from our improvised pilot session for our new upcoming show Cosmic Bos Improvisation podcast.

A more stripped back and mantra like jam action from your Cosmic Bos then you maybe use to. 

Ride the Waves is the second song from our test session, the first being 'Perplexed'. We also recorded a bunch of other stuff on that day, but that's for our ears only (at least until we become mega famous and have special anthologies made about us, and someone unearths from the iCloud the lost songs from the pilot session of the worlds most celebrated podcast)

On Saturday 3rd April 2021 we recorded the first full episode of our improvisation podcast, (take note of the date time travellers) currently untitled, still got a bit of time to come up with a clever title. It was an amazing session, we streamed the middle part of it live on instagram and facebook and sessions all at the same time.

In fact, here it is embedded from facebook

The 5 songs from this live jam will turn up on the improvisation podcast I mentioned earlier in this blog, we have 3 songs from the session we did before the live bit, and 3 songs/bits from the session we did straight after this stream. But these 5 songs exist for you here not too dissimilar to how they will turn up in the future on our first fully improvised album (currently still untitled, I had not managed to come up with a title since starting writing this blog). The 5 songs here are: 

1. Perplexed
2. Metrics of Success
3. Yarway
4. Share
5. Crazy-Go-Round

Yarway and Crazy-Go-Round can be found on Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Episode 7: On Yarway, these versions here are the improvised versions.

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Thanks for being amazing

We have an April podcast lined up that is a bit different from what we've done before, it's called 'A Mike Schur thing' where Nick and Andy are going to chat about all things Mike Schur created and related, it should be fun, at least for us it will be, for you, hopefully too.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Perplexed - An improvised song by Cosmic Bos ft. Joe Philogene

So friends,

New horizons are horizoning, improvisation sessions hidden within practices, all good stuff.

We here at Cosmic Bos have been doing some self reflecting, as is customary during lockdown times, and conclusions have been reached about some changes that need to take place. No longer having a master producer has put more onus on us mere musician types to step up to the plate and learn more production skills...we will do our best.

So first of the new deals is this improvisation we did with Joe Philogene, Perplexed 

Andy, Nick and Joe had an afternoon of musical whimsy and practice, which led to a handful of purely improvised songs, Perplexed being one of them. We had been having a moment outside where we were discussing how awesome Radiohead are, we even listened to an amazing Acapella version of 15 Steps, so we were feeling rather Thom Yorke inspired when we sat down to jam it out. 

This is the leading inspiration for the new show we will launch soon called 'Cosmic Bos Improvisation', it's improvised and then not revised, it's pure improvisation to its core, dropped notes and all. Coming soon in a big way to a podcast page near you.

We have also been practicing up our live skills ready for when the world realises that it needs live music again to help fill the void of virus fear. We have been using an up and coming streaming service called Sessions.

Cosmic Bos Live on Sessions

https://artists.sessionslive.com/cosmicbos

Hooray

We are doing our practices there, so come along and join our crew.

There is still plenty of Improv-Revisation shenanigans to come, it has not been abandoned, we just have some other things to attend to at this moment.

Our next months podcast will be an experimental new format which we are currently calling 'It's a Mike Schur thing' - where Nick and Andy will discuss their love of all things Mike Schur (creator of Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn99 and The Good Place), looking forward to trying something new.

Until then though, how about you hang around and check out some of our other creative endeavours

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvc1RE9SB5fISq3ntTCruFRm-Q6zc1blZ

Thanks for your eyes,

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

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

Cosmic Bos Instagram Livestream #1 - 8/1/2021

 Hello friends,

New single 'Waiting' coming tomorrow, or ages ago depending on when you are reading this.

Anyway, before that, here's the video of Andy doing instagram livestream stuff for the first time, probably not the last time, but who knows, only time and this blog probably.

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Did you enjoy that? Did you even watch it? Probably not, but thanks for visiting anyway, it was lovely to see you, please take a complimentary electronic muffin on your way out, it is gluten free I promise.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos