Bad Decisions - Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections (Track 2 of 13)

 So friends,

The first proper thing after sunrise, we have to start making decisions.

Wow, not sure we made such good decisions there...

Cover for the full album

Ngoni and Percussion - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar, Synth and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson

Video by Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson

Lyrics - Bad Decisions by Andy Jackson

The teacher is having a breakdown

Technology dulled all the skills

Always on a digital playground

Hormones regulated by pills

It’s just a ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba

Mosaic by Abi Jackson

Bad decisions,

It’s a ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba

Bad decisions

It’s a natural disaster in progress

Slowly robotising us all

We’re more like an app on an tablet

Rather then a brick in a wall

CHORUS

Actions reduced to just pixels 

Emotions switched out for a meme

All the thumbs up on a status

Seduced by the notes on the screen

CHORUS

The doctor is having a break now, she’s been on her feet for a week

While pompous pricks go on a pow-wow, Continue the causing the bleak

CHORUS

- So there you have it, the first full step into the great wide musical world of Cosmic Bos, the sun has risen and we are exploring what there is to offer out in the great wide world.

Joe provides an awesome Ngoni rhythm for Nick and Andy to noodle over, and reflecting on the times in which we now live, the teachers and doctors are given the spotlight for a moment, let's hope we listen to them and don't just go and do some stupid nonsense instead...

Drones galore in this one, coming out of buildings, zooming through forests, over beaches and towns, while the Bos crew try and make semblance out of the chaos gifted us by the World.

Peace be the journey,

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Peace and infinite love

PS - Check out our podcast Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation for the full sessions from which these videos are taken

https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

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 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