The hashtag for MMC 1.2 has been out for a week, and #Escape has produced some wonderful pieces for the Music Weeklies challenge, go to Twitter to check them out, in a bit, first off, check out Cosmic Bos's entry to the weekly
So the Monthly Music Challenge is well on it's way now, into the second hashtag (#Escape if you weren't aware), and the challenge is coming to a close for the music makers of the Music Weeklies, there has been some excellent submissions to the MMC from that bunch (looking at you Trench Gun), and all you other music makers that need a bit more time, you still have until the 3rd March to submit your songs to the podcast.
As for this song, Make Good Our Escape (weeklies version), Nick and I (Andy) worked out some guitar at the weekend, I then recorded a musical outline (using just 3 guitars), put some drum loops in, wrote the lyric, sung the lyric, released the video to the music weeklies world.
The song is about being ready to escape when things go bad, and getting out together, not leaving anyone behind. For all the crazy in the world, it's not a problem if we can make good our escape.
Originally written as part of the Music Weeklies Hashtag challenge on Twitter, (the hashtag being #MorningCoffee) I (Andy) felt pretty confident that Nick could help me turn this acoustic little ditty into a full blown morning banger, which he most certainly did.
The first of 4 hashtag challenge songs on the EP, as well as a special remix by Cosmic Bos of the awesome False Promises by Andrew Hartshorn (ft. Natalie Williams Calhoun) with a vocal by Cosmic Bos and some extra instrumentation too.
Here's the Youtube version
And the link to the whole darn record on the tube.
Full podcast breakdown of the EP coming sooner than soon.
Have a day everyone, love you lots
Peace and infinite love (see! told you I loved ya lots)
Next week we will release Virtual Normality 2 - a 5 track EP, and a podcast to go with it I imagine. We are also playing our yearly gig on the 12th November at The Brunswick for the Off the Records music festival, come on down and see Nick and I live.
After the EP we will turn our attention to closing down the year, with a customary Best of of some sort, and hopefully getting our documentary all sown up. Lots to do, and plenty more songs to write too.
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
The Summer of Bos continues, refusing to believe the summer is over, with at least three more weeks of scheduled content to come, the sun is still firmly shining in our home camp.
Bards for Hire - Cosmic Bos
Taken from the album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time
Which picked up a Judges Choice Award in the Lights and Lines Album in a Month Challenge 2022
This song is all about us, Cosmic Bos, and how we are available for hire for songwriting or song construction. Please consider us for your next musical needs.
All music written by Andy & Nick Jackson Lyrics by Andy Jackson Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Nick Jackson Please like, share and subscribe, and ring the little old bell
And comment too, if you want to hire us for any Bard based activities
We are squirrelling away on the next video, the one we recorded in Wales (Cosmic Bos were away on a family holiday in Wales), and we are recording the second part of the Album in a Month podcast too, as well as plenty of other Summer of Bos based things.
Check out our TikTok for more fun, and instagram too, we are doing much more short form stuff over there, bit silly.
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.
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.
So we made another music video, to go with our EP 'Virtual Normality' (which you can listen to in all good bookstores with wifi), this time to the song 'Take it Easier' (track 2 on the aforementioned EP), once again enlisting the A-List talents of Baby Theo, and this time persuading him to be all the musicians, and the singer, and the producer, basically do all our jobs for us. And, he did a wonderful jobs.
On the 18th of October, Baby Theo turned One Years old! and he is already writing and producing his own music, quite an achievement. But, this baby has been making music from before he was even born, with his heartbeat appearing on 'Ride Another Wave' from the Cosmic Bos EP 'Virtual Normality' (still available in all good coffee houses with wifi).
Utter legend that Theo, love him to bits.
This EP has been a fun adventure for Nick and myself (Andy), and we are very pleased with the result.
We are looking to take this one stage further next year with a full album of loveliness.
Big thanks to New Music Saturday for spinning every track from our EP, concluding with 'Take it Easier' on Saturday 23rd October. They have been so supportive over the last few years and we are eternally grateful to them. Also big shout out to Texmex Shaman for his excellent guitar work on Stay Inside.
Thanks for coming on this journey with us, we have some exciting stuff in store for the last couple of months of the year, so stay tuned.
As has been customary during our time as podcasters, we here at Cosmic Bos have aimed to do something special presentationey every year of our show. In year 1 we did From the Vault which was a collection of music from Cosmic Bos's hard drives, in year 2 we did From the Songbook, a collection of songs we had written and then recorded live in Nick's living room, so for year 3 we have made an EP of 5 proper recordings for you. Cosmic Bos present, Virtual Normality...
For this special presentation, Nick and Andy sit down to discuss their EP, Virtual Normality, which they recorded over the summer of 2021 with the intention of it being their summer presentation. As is customary for Bos, it got a little delayed and finally came out on the 1st October. Not a problem though, it's not like they work to deadline or anything.
Back Cover Art also by Gecko
So the 5 songs of Virtual Normality all have a story around them, and this podcast explores them, as well as containing a Tea Review, discussion on what the rest of the year has in store for Cosmic Bos (hint, it's quite a bit), chatter about our upcoming gig on November 13th at the Brunswick in Hove, shout outs for New Music Saturday with Dr. Bones and Mike5, and extra special shoutouts to Texmex Shaman for providing the slick guitar work on Stay Inside.
Also, massive shout out to Gecko for the cover and back cover, he is an awesome artist and you should check him out, search iamgecko and marvel at the wondrous, the spectacular, the unbelievable art that he does.
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Here is the YouTube version of Space Babies video
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
PS. Here's the record on it's own without Nick and Andy waffling between the tunes
Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality EP Cover art by iamgecko
Space Babies (Virtual Normality version)
The opening track on Cosmic Bos's new EP Virtual Normality
This song began life as an improvisation from our 3rd improv album of this year 'Summadelica', with a video idea in place while we were shooting the video for Space Babies improv version.
With the addition of the 1950's B Movie style intro, and the trimming of some of the music to fit it neatly into 4 minutes, Space Babies explores the concepts of life before life begins, were we all just Space Babies floating about before we came here to be Earth Babies? We like to think the answer is yes, and Baby Theo is attempting to return to that space, in some sense.
So come, marvel at the spectacular, the wondrous, the unbelievable... Babies...In....SPAAAACE!!!!!!
Here's the Youtube version
We have made a few TikTok promo's for the EP, focusing specifically on this song (to begin with, there are other songs prepped for later)
and...
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
Baby Theo recognises a UFO when he sees one.
P.S - here is the Spotify embed of the whole Virtual Normality EP, just if you wanted to listen and follow and share etc.
Well, it's time for us to all get a little bit spacey and reconnect with our inner child, or inner baby, a bit of preverbal exploration of existence.
Space Babies! The first single from our upcoming album Cosmic Bos Improvisation 3: Summadelica
Music improvised by Joe Philogene (Percussion), Nick Jackson (Electric Guitar and Synth) and Andy Jackson (Acoustic Guitar and Vocals)
Video starring Theodore Jackson as Space Baby and Andrea Jackson as Space Baby Momma
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Season 3 podcast cover starring Theo 'Space Baby' Jackson
Space Babies - lyrics by Andy Jackson
Flying through space
Feel no air at my waist
The pressures are gone
Freedom swims along
Imagination
Mental elevation
Whole worlds shall dissolve
New empires unfold
It’s a game, we’re just playing
It’s a laugh, we’re all staying
These dragons all need slaying
We need truth, I’m just saying
Flying through space
Like a babies first taste
No sense letting the pressure
Stop exploring together
Imaginations
Create greater nations
Cooperating peacefully
Will be achieved eventually
It’s a game, we the players
It’s quite hard, entertain us
These dragons sent for slaying
Are our reason for staying
Space, need plenty of space
Babies gotta taste
For that infinite space
...
No Babies or Cows were adversely affected during the making of this video, however, one of the cows did spontaneously turn inside out yesterday, but that was nothing to do with the video, purely coincidental.
The idea for this video had been bouncing around the Cosmic Bos camp for a little while, originally it was to have been adults swimming in space, but when Theo came along and melted our hearts with his theodorableness it became a no brainer to get him to be our test subject for green screen based space flight, somewhat cheaper then Bezos, Branson and Musk, we managed to send Theo in to space without a rocket or a suit, and judging by his reactions he was loving his time floating round the cosmos meeting cows and aliens and just generally having a little swim in space.
The deeper meaning behind all this lovely babies in space stuff has to do with our very own entry points to this reality, could we all just be space babies that have plugged in to this 3D spectrum to have a human experience for a bit, before we return to space babiedom and find another playground to have an existential experience in? Maybe baby. Worth some pondering for sure.
As a baby, the possibilities remain infinite, it is only time and interactions that shape the infinite into the finite, crushing the language paradigm, the visual realm, the mental capability to do literally whatever you can imagine, all slowly moulded out of us. But, a Baby shows you this, and for a brief moment you can remember what it is like to be free of all pressure.
Find your inner space baby and go on an adventure, share this experience far and wide so that all can be reminded how amazing we all are really.
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
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Also also, here is the YouTube link if the podcast one up above was giving you problems. Have a happy existence.
The conclusion of the Sunrise Reflections comes in the form of 2 songs, the penultimate track being Clearly Designed, and the final song being Pinata of Troy.
Clearly Designed - Cosmic Bos Improvisation
Ngoni - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
After the deep thinking soul soothing antics of Ram Dass, it is time for the smokey wisdom of Cosmic Bos, with Joe using his Hunters Harp to hold the song together, Andy and Nick help build the tapestry. At the end of our musical/visual journey we are at our most burnt out, and beautiful colourful smoke carries our almost final musical opus away, the sun sets and the day is done, after the next one (Piñata of Troy).
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Here are the lyrics which were written prior to the musical improv.
Clearly Designed - by Andy Jackson
Waiting out another cycle Too many layers to this trifle Clearly designed and built to shine But socially easy to stifle
Wear the honour like a hat There really is no shame in that Clearly designed and made to shine You’re the hipster coolest cat
Normally the normal me Would embrace all that I can see The signs are all designed clearly Proving this ain’t reality
Save your memories in a chest One day it will be all that’s left Clearly refined preserved design Testament to your dying breath
Normally the normal me Gets swept up in catastrophe Of late though I’ve designed clearly A proclaimed self sufficiency
Systems trotted out and barely tested Propping up the failed reinvested A clear design fault finally been bested Medal goes to third, the hairy chested
Normally the normal me Gets glitched out by bad latency On this occasion I’ll agree To check this was designed clearly
...
and finally...
Pinata of Troy - Cosmic Bos
The final track from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections sees the sun setting on our adventure and the Pinata being gifted to Troy.
Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Synth - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
PIÑATA Of TROY - lyrics by Andy Jackson
Slow cooking up a cluster duck
Shredded, pancaked, out of luck
From pond to plate
Best not to wait
Or moral issues surface
Go Derek on the little things
Kindness floats on angel wings
From start to end
The great pretend
Will barely scratch the surface
Back end of the convoy
First to see the decoy
But treated like a chew toy
Piñata given to Troy
It’s animal to instinct
Not capable of deep think
But baby, bath and the sink
Don’t deserve discarding
It’s human to be lazy
It’s chaos wrapped in crazy
memory is some what hazy
Unless directed by Scorcese
Back end of the convoy
First to see the decoy
Treated like a chew toy
Pinata given to Troy
...
At the end we have our toy horse full of treats, ready to be given to someone who will hopefully enjoy it and get something positive from it, we are not enemies, but friends who haven't met yet, so here's a piñata. Our journey concludes.
What a journey it has been, from the early twinklings of Time is Now, through the ups and downs of Sunrises, Intentions, Bad Decisions, World Feelings worth staying for, wise wise Ram Dass, Being in the now, Now, reflecting, reflective...to the end, where the oversized Pinata is gifted to the enemy, so we may all be friends and solve this riddle of existence together, for together is always better.
The sun sets on this journey, the second of our fully improvised album releases, utilising the sunsets filmed after the session from our window, we close this book. But fear not, for the story is far from over, and Improvisation 3: Summadelica is already in the bag and itching to get out.
Sunrise Reflections was a truly wonderful project to work on, and Joe Philogene brought so much love, energy and talent to the core of this work which gave Nick and Andy such a rich space to explore musically, it was an honour.
Also Ram Dass, what can be said about Ram Dass?!
Mainly for what we were using him for it was rhythm, Ram Dass speaks with such flow and rhythm that combining his voice with our improvised music just worked so well, so well in fact that we used him for all of the improvised Words of Wisdom sections, as well as the song that bore his books title 'Be Here Now'.
Check out the Here and Now podcast to hear lots of awesome mind opening speeches by Ram Dass
Also check out our podcast for plenty of improvised musical shenanigans and visual funfoolery, we love you dearly and have something special to share with you, it's in our podcast somewhere, go have a look.
We came here for the fun, but stayed here for the feeling
Track 9 on Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections
Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
Video by Nick and Andy Jackson
After a couple of sets of wise words from the almighty Ram Dass, Cosmic Bos come back to their musical roots and serve up a somewhat simple singer songwriter kinda song. With lyrics by Andy, the chaps came here for the fun, but stayed here for the feeling.
Stayed Here for the Feeling - Lyrics by Andy Jackson
Spread across the bed
While the mower’s in the shed
Gets dustier and rustier
Use paving stones instead
Lazy built an empire
And then slept through the day
Generations greatest gifts
Casually thrown away
But fun is what we came for
The feelings’ why we stayed
We’ll decimate the buffet
And likely misbehave
Yonder window sunset
Yesterday was better
Except for the pain we felt
So easy to forget her
Tomorrow could be easy
Or is that simply dreaming
Came here for the fun
But stayed here for the feeling
Today is all okay
This is time worth stealing
Came here for the fun
Stayed here for the feeling
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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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The fourth song from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections, and the next instalment in our audio/visual presentation.
Ngoni and Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar, Synth and Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
The lyrics for this song were improvised on the spot, just like the rest of the song. There was a collection of jars sat behind Nick on a shelf, they acted as the launching point for the lyrical wonder that is 'Apparently'.
We decided on a colourful moving image palette to go with this song, and sunflowers. Hopefully a visual feast for your eyes while the music is a treat for your ears. Imagine the smell of beautiful flowers to complete the sensory experience (we are not yet capable of releasing the smell version of our jams)
For the full improv session visit our podcast site and download the 2 hour meditative improvised musical experience. The full version features some wonderful words of wisdom by Ram Dass, it's embedded right below these very words in fact.
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
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
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:
Currency
Not Babylon or Rome
Like Minded
Perplexed
Metrics of Success
Yarway
Share
Crazy-go-round
Words of Wisdom 1: Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce
Sounding Gap
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.
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Peace be the journey
Find all our lovely improvised and improv-revised music on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc. search for Cosmic Bos improvisation
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:
Perplexed
Metrics of Success
Yarway
Share
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.
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.
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
