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

 Hello prospective client,

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

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

Hartshorn Jackson Jackson Warren · Playing Office

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kind Regards

Andy Jackson partner in HJJ&W

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

 Hello lovely you,

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

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

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

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

And check out Andrew Hartshorn and Monochrome Motif Records

https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com

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

Check out our link tree for all your Cosmic Bos needs

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

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

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

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

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

And here's the Best of on YouTube too

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

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

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

 Happy day my friend,

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

Quilt - Cosmic Bos

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

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

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

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

Please like, share and subscribe @Cosmic Bos

And comment too

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

Check out our podcast for lots of musical fun and shenanigans

https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

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

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

Have a wonderful day being awesome, you got this

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

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

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 - 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

Cosmic Bos pick up a Judges Choice Award in the Album Writing Club competition

 Hello lovely you,

So good news, we (Cosmic Bos) won a Judges Choice award in the Album Writing Club challenge put on by Lights and Lines record label. 

We are chuffed to bits, and it's been so enlightening to connect in with so many other fantastic musicians, and we hope to get to work with many of them in the future. Thanks so much Lights and Lines for putting the whole thing on.

Anyway, as we didn't pick up the top 'Record Contract' prize, we are left to our own devises to release this album we made in a month.

And as we were in the middle of doing our Making of an Album podcast special, we are going to return to it, using this new album we done as the subject of the final parts of it.

So in August we are going to release the album '2 A.M, it's Mission Time' in full, on bandcamp and Spotify and youtube and everywhere else. With Episode 4 of Making of an Album being based around the diary I (Andy) kept during the month of May. In September we will aim for Episode 5 of MoaA to be the one about releasing an album, but that's ages away so we won't worry about that too much.

Here is the video we made for Isle of Avalon, the song we submitted to the singles playlist, a little taster of our album.

Thanks for all the support, we truly appreciate it

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here's Catch a Clue single link too

The Album Writing Club Challenge - Singles playlist available now

 Hello friends,

So May was quite an intense month for Cosmic Bos, we took on the Lights and Lines Make an Album in a month challenge, meaning we had to put our 'Making of an Album' on hold, to make an album, hmm...

I kept a diary to go along with the month, and this will see the light of day soon, possibly in podcast form, possibly as a special download with the album, not sure exactly yet. Until then though, I thought it only appropriate to bring you up to speed with the competition.

So the playlist of artists that made it to the finish line is available on Soundcloud, I have embedded it here for your listening convenience. 

Lights And Lines · The Album Writing Club - Singles

Have a listen to all these amazing songs, and then vote for your favourite here forms.gle/PgQ5RxDrTGmzsVis6 

The whole competition was arranged by Lights and Lines, a musical collective record label that have been doing their thing for not even a year and have released lots of material from a handful of specifically
selected bands and artists, run by Mike 5, who we know as part of the New Music Saturday Duo (along with Dr. Bones). 

Find out more about this competition on their website       https://www.headlightsandwhitelines.com 

We can't really talk much about our entry at the moment, once the results are out we will be more forthcoming with information, but until then, there is not much we can say.

Our entry in the Singles playlist is 'Isle of Avalon', and it is about the history of Glastonbury Tor and the surrounding area, known as the isle of Avalon (hence the title), and our album entry is '2 A.M, it's Mission Time'.

Cosmic Bos · Isle Of Avalon

It is currently parading in front of the judges as well as the other 27 submissions. It was an absolute blast to be part of this competition and we can't wait to share our speedily constructed album with you, we are pretty proud of it and think you will hopefully all enjoy it too.

Have a wonderful week

Peace and infinite love

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Cosmic Bos Album in a Month challenge - a side quest we have embarked on

 Hello friends,

Update, sorry we have been so quiet on the blog front this month, after releasing our last Making of an Album episode we have embarked on a little Side Quest, to make an album in a month for the LightsandLines record label challenge.

We have been busy, putting all our spare time into the making of this album in a month, with just over a week left until submission date, we have the last bits of mixing and mastering to do.

I (Andy) have been keeping a diary to go along with the making of this album in a month, and it will see the light of day in the future, probably when the album gets released, or it might form the backbone of a podcast that Nick and I will do for June. So June, was originally going to be the 4th part of our Making of an Album series, but we do not have time to put that together in that sense, so we have put it on the back burner for a while while we deal with this new May album.

Expect a single track from this album we are making to surface on the 1st June, we haven't decided which track we are putting forward for that yet, so stay tuned for that.

Okay, back to work, got an album to finish.

Also, Bandcamp is a thing, and you can get our latest things on there right now!

You can still listen to all our old episodes, please leave us comments and give us ratings on podcasting apps, it helps a bunch.

And what do ya know, it's a playlist of our improv squared videos on youTube! lovely

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos