The partners of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren have just released a new single, 'Barbenheimer'
You can purchase this fine product on bandcamp here from the handy embedded link.
You can also find the song on Spotify and all other streaming sites
Barbenheimer was born from a song that Andrew Hartshorn had originally written for his Monthly Music Challenge album, it was his Mother Earth entry called 'Terra Mater'. He had floated the idea of expanding the song to be a Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren track, and once the outline existed, it wasn't too long before Andy Jackson had written the lyric, Nick Jackson had recorded some Bass and accent guitar, and Al Warren had added some Brass, and Barbenheimer was born.
Given the fact that the video department of HJJ&W had yet to provide any promotional video material for the partners, it only seemed right that they pulled out all the stops to provide something special for the single that followed their debut album 'Sound Investments' which you can still purchase to this very day.
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Welcome to the gates of Hell! Where musicians must fight demon's to save the very fabric of our existence. Andy and Nick Jackson (Cosmic Bos) stood before such a demon and used the powers of Tenacious D to save us all. Here is the video evidence of this mighty quest.
Tribute by Tenacious D is arguably the greatest tribute to the greatest song in the world that has even been made. Cosmic Bos have chosen to honour the greatest song in the world by doing a tribute to the tribute to the greatest song in the world.
Brothers Andy and Nick (Jackson) - Cosmic Bos, have been making music for a long time, one of the very first bonding experiences with music for the Jackson brothers was the self titled debut album by Tenacious D - Jack Black and Kyle Gass created a masterpiece with that album, and it was whist visiting America (Florida to be precise, for the theme parks) that the very British Jackson brothers did stumble upon Tenacious D. Purchased from a record store in an outlet mall along with the Spinal Tap Soundtrack, Nick and Andy proceeded to spend their two week holiday learning every lyric, skit and harmony that the album had to offer. Nick was 15 at the time, Andy was 21, and their vocal only rendition of 'F**k Her Gently' on the boat ride to Disneyland was both inappropriate and hilarious.
Tribute is the stand out song on the album, it is a true masterpiece on its own. The video is also a masterpiece in Cosmic Bos's opinion. Nick and Andy learnt to play and perform the song shortly after returning from America. Several years later it would be their party piece, once an acoustic guitar had been located at a party it wouldn't be long before the pre Cosmic Bos brothers would be flig-a-guinging their way through a ropey rendition of Tribute.
Now all these many moons later, Nick and Andy have been making music together as Cosmic Bos for over 5 years, embodying the spirit of the D, continuing their quest to find the greatest song in the world and share it with everyone. They found it only fitting to honour the song that inspired their lifelong quest, give praise to the musical gods that Jack Black and Kyle Gass are, and offer to help them in their quest to be the greatest band in the world, maybe take the septa for a while, maybe even take over as they are getting on a bit now.
Tribute to Tribute is Cosmic Bos's tribute to Tribute by Tenacious D, Andy and Nick attempted to lovingly recreate the original video as much as they could. Not having access to a suitable 'recording booth' as in the original video, the lads just decided to skip all that and cut straight to the song.
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Peace and infinite success
Cosmic Bos
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With the '22 ending imminently, it seemed only fitting to do a little cleaning out the hard drive ready for a fresh year of music and videos, which revealed a couple of music video's that had managed to skip their release windows and hide out in the hard drive. So, I present to you the first of the two missing music video's from our Judges Choice Award Winning Album - 2 A.M, It's Mission Time
Stop Saying 1984 to Make a Point
Nick and I (Andy) made music video's to go with every song from the album, when we were recording the actual record, we put camera in our faces to capture the process and give ourselves the option to make music videos for 10 out of the 12 tracks on the album. We had to make proper music videos for 'Catch a Clue' and 'Patient Mystery' as they had not been constructed musically using our special Improv Squared technique.
We felt this was the weakest song on the record, which is why it got skipped over in favour of the next video on the release schedule. It's not a bad song, but it's a bit barebones and could do with a bit more musical muscle, which ironically makes the song much like the protagonist of the book 1984.
Still, it made the album final tracklist, and sits proudly alongside it's musical brothers and sister on 2 A.M.
Here's the Youtube version should you prefer it
Coming tomorrow will be 'Closed to the Public', the final song from the album, along with a roundup of the year blog, Thanks for coming on this adventure with us, we love you very much.
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.
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
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Here for your viewing pleasure is Morning Coffee by Cosmic Bos
This is my entry into the music weeklies challenge on Twitter for the hashtag MorningCoffee
And here is the Double Espresso version
Coming tomorrow is the final part of Cosmic Bos Making of an Album Podcast Special Presentation we've been doing this year, then it's onto the next record, which I am happy to announce is an EP titled Virtual Normality 2. Since Virtual Normality turns 1 on the 1st of October it will be getting a special band camp release, which we are excited about.
I also endeavour to get better at blogging and sharing what's going on with me (Andy), Nick and the wider Cosmic Bos community which is growing all the time. Thanks to the Lights and Lines Album writing competition we have made so many new musical friends and some very exciting collaborations are coming your way soon.
Anyway, you probably only came here for coffee, thanks for staying till the end.
Essentially this video is like a family holiday video, set to a song from our award winning album, Baby Theo returns to the spotlight for some exploring of a Welsh beach and a Welsh castle ruins, with his dad (Nick) and grandad (Dave) watching over him as he explores and learns.
Shot in August 2022 in a secret location in Wales UK
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Peace and infinite love
Andy (Cosmic Bos)
Here is the Youtube version as well should you wish to click it
So I (Andy) have been taking part in a fun weekly musical challenge on Twitter, probably should have blogged about it ages ago, but I've been busy and lazy. Plus the blog is more for the work I do with Nick on Cosmic Bos, and that is still flowing. The summer of Bos has a couple more weeks in it, with Episode 5 of our special presentation podcast - Making of an Album coming on the 24th of this month, a video for 'Here's Tom with the Weather' featuring Bill Hicks coming out on the 23rd, and a video for Patient Mystery dropping on the 16th (probably out by the time you read this). It's a busy end to a busy Summer for Cosmic Bos.
You probably didn't click on this blog for the ramblings of a musician, you wanted to hear the Spaceship Earth song that is teased in the title, and most likely you wouldn't have even read the bit above or this bit either and just skipped straight to the goods, and I don't blame you, and if you have been foolish enough to waste time reading this bit then I commend you for your dedication to the written word in this age of image based entertainment. Long live the text!
Spaceship Earth - Music Weeklies Challenge Song #Spaceship
Version 1
This was the first version I recorded on Tiktok, the other version was recorded on Tiktok as well, just in case you were wondering.
Version 2
Version 2 took longer to make because of putting all the lyrics on the screen.
Check out other things related to the Twitter awesomeness of Music Weeklies Challenges, and I will get round to blogging about it better in the future, I might even go back and blog about the 4 other ones I did over the summer, who knows?
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
Direct from our podcast feed no less, it can also be found on all good social media outlets, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/c/CosmicBos
Big Congratulations to MikeyJ for winning the public vote with 'My Little Dragon Girl' - wonderful song indeed. Take a listen.
Isle of Avalon was our single submission to the Lights and Lines Album Writing Competition Singles playlist, our album is 12 tracks and we can't wait to share it with you.
We have recorded a video for our proper single 'Catch a Clue', which will be with you mid July. It's very 80's inspired which is keeping with our collective current nostalgia gazing.
Anyway, Isle of Avalon is track 4 on '2 A.M, it's Mission Time' and we chose it as our single submission because it represents the themes of the album better than any other individual track. Our theme was Glastonbury Tor and the surrounding area, with its rich history and spiritual connections, and the worlds most beloved music festival on its doorstep, it seemed a fitting place to theme an album on.
Nick and Andy sitting in the park
While staying at the base of the Tor in an AirB&B, was when I (Andy) had seen the post by Lights&Lines about the 'Album in a Month' Challenge. I took lots of video footage while there, we were at a Medieval festival at Glastonbury Abbey, and I refrained from posting it so that it could be used for the artwork and visual theme of our album. The cover is from the sunrise mission I went on (it wasn't at 2AM though).
It's going to be a busy old July on the Cosmic Bos front, we have a blockage in the pipeline and music is busting to get out and into your earholes.
We will podcast this month, it won't be Making of an Album Episode 4, we have currently shelved that while we refocus. We have been discussing shifting the MoaA thing to being about the album we just made in a month, we have plenty of footage and a diary of events so will easily be able to get a solid 'Recording an Album' episode. But that won't be till August at the earliest, until then, July will be filled with 'Catch a Clue' single release, some 'Live' Streaming, and TikTok shenanigans in the form of our new 'Filter Songs' series. Hopefully some live gigs will materialise in the upcoming months too, we remain ever hopeful.
Nick and Andy under a lovely Willow
Thanks for being here now, you have made my day by reading these words, and in exchange I grant you a magical power boost of luck and wisdom, go out and do good.
