Family Tree - Cosmic Bos #Family music weeklies challenge entry

 Hello fam,

Straight off the bat I want to say, I love you, you are amazing, thank you for coming to our little corner of the internet, we hope you enjoy your time here.

Family Tree by Cosmic Bos

For the #Family weeklies music challenge, the final hashtag of Feb 2023.

I (Andy) really love and respect my family, they have been instrumental in my development as a human being and I am eternally grateful to them all, and my friends as well, love you all. This song is for all of you, every human that is part of the great human family tree.

Here's the TikTok video I made for it, on youtube 

Also, quick heads up, Monthly Music Challenge 1.2 Escape is coming on the 5th March, and our EP of 5 tracks from Feb is available right now on bandcamp (and everywhere else tomorrow). We will do a proper blog about it tomorrow, but in the meanwhile,

Here's the embedded Bandcamp link

Please consider purchasing this fine collection of recently put together songs, we love you either way.

Have a great rest of the day fam, stay beautiful

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

But What Does Freedom Mean? New Demo song by Cosmic Bos for the #Freedom music weeklies challenge

 Hello friends,

But What Does Freedom Mean? By Cosmic Bos   

Made for the Music weeklies  #freedom challenge

 I went with a serious tone this time, choosing to ponder the question

 what does freedom mean?

 Big shout outs to the legends Russell Brand and Duncan Truffles for being amazing question askers and journeyers through the mind, love you both infinitely 

 Video version on youtube https://youtu.be/sz8znkctOTY 

Subscribe to our podcast https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

You can still submit #Escape songs to Cosmic Bos for Monthly Music Challenge 1.2, you can also submit #Freedom songs too, until the 3rd of March 2023

send your mp3s to cosmicbos@gmail.com for inclusion in the podcast, your songs have to be on the themes of the month, that's the requirement for potential inclusion. This month already has quite a few more submissions then last month did, excited to explore everyones take on the Escape theme.

Anyway, have a wonderful weekend, 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge #MMC1 with Cosmic Bos - Introduction

 Hello wonderful you,

Welcome to the blog where the Monthly Music Challenge takes place, this is the introduction 

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with @CosmicBos podcast

This is the introduction episode, laying out how it's going to go down for the rest of the year.

Let Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) be your guides through the wonderful world of music creation, working with the sublime musicians of Music Weeklies @MusicWeeklies CB will be making a new song every week in line with their rules, but on the side CB will be offering up the chance for music made within the month (leaning heavily on the first hashtag of each month) to be played on this podcast, and get comments from Nick and Andy.

Podcast play (PP) will not be reserved exclusively for the first hashtag (which btw is #NewBeginnings), and any of Music Weeklies hashtags generated in the given month are viable for PP, please send your mp3's (not WAVs, our inbox will die) to cosmicbos@gmail.com with the hashtag in the subject line, and a bit of info about yourself so we can give you the promo in the podcast that you deserve.

We won't be playing any material that doesn't meet the Music Weeklies guidelines or our Monthly Music Challenge ones either, to get airplay and PP for such songs you should go check out the New Music Saturdays guys (they have a podcast of their show too, check it out).

So, get to work lovely musicians, songwriters, audio creatives 

You have until the 3rd of Feb (2023) to submit for the January hashtags, of which the first one (and the one you can have a month to work on) is #NewBeginnings 

Check back on Twitter on the 13th, 20th and 27th of Jan to find out the other three hashtags that we will accept PP on.

This should be fun, we can't wait to hear from you

Any questions please come find us on Twitter @CosmicBos where we will attempt to answer them (SPOILER ALERT! we might not be able to)

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Here's the Youtube link to the podcast episode.

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Check out our band camp for musical purchases

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-2

Songs found on this introduction episode are all by Cosmic Bos

1. The Drunky Song (for #Drunk)
2. You Find Out When You Die (for #Afterlife)
3. Morning Coffee acoustic (for #MorningCoffee)
4. Morning Coffee Full Blend version (from Virtual Normality 2)

Links for all of these can be found on our YouTube page

Cosmic Bos YouTube Channel

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Happy New Year! Have a drink in musical form - it's The Drunky Song

 Newpy Happy Ear me dears,

Cosmic Bos are going to launch their new Monthly Music Challenge this coming weekend (Friday
evening in the UK via Music Weeklies Twitter Hashtag Challenge), and I (Andy) have been taking part in the weekly musical creating since back in August last year. I made 21 hashtag songs in 2022, and one final one before the Monthly Challenge Launch for the final hashtag of last year #Drunk

Not my usual offering for sure, but I got an equipment upgrade at Christmas so wanted to flex some dance music muscles and let the guitar have a week off, instead turning to the trusty MiniNova to do the musical heavy lifting.

Here is a playlist of all 22 Music Weeklies Challenges I did, with a couple of upgraded demo's in there too from Cosmic Bos' EP - Virtual Normality 2.

Here's the link tree to all your Cosmic Bos branches, we have music and videos and podcasts all for Free!

https://linktr.ee/cosmicbos

Send money to us via musical purchases from any online retailer, but especially Bandcamp because, well, we get more dosh that way.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos  

NUN in a KAYAK by Cosmic Bos (Music Weeklies #Palinloop Challenge song - normal and PCP versions)

 Hello friends,

I  have been taking part in the Music Weeklies Challenges on Twitter, and they are lots of fun, allowing me to stretch my writing muscles into some interesting places.

It is the 4 year anniversary of Music Weeklies Challenges, and they are doing exciting anniversary based things all month. Check out there website here https://www.musicweeklieschallenge.com 

So the challenge for the 1st week of October is #Palinloop - write something that involves palindromes and loops in some way.

Here's what I did - NUN in a KAYAK

And here is the speedy version - NUN in a KAYAK on PCP

I have really enjoyed making these songs, and I've done 8 of them now, and 4 of them are currently being remade by Nick and myself to form our next release - Virtual Normality 2. Watch this space for more on that!

Please go check out the Music Weeklies chaps, they are lots of fun and a great community for musicians to interact and get some genuine feedback on your work. https://www.musicweeklieschallenge.com

Peace and infinite love

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Spaceship Earth - Cosmic Bos New Song - both versions in one blog - part of the Music Weeklies Challenge for #Spaceship

 Hello dear you,

How's it going? Well I hope.

Orange Moon rising over Spaceship Earth

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?

Peace and infinite love

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Making of an Album Episode 1: Introduction (Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast Season 4)

 Hello friends,

Welcome to the first episode of our limited series 'Making of an Album'

How does one make an album?

That is the question at the heart of this special podcast presentation, and Nick & Andy from Cosmic Bos are going to break it down for you, from writing the songs, to demo stage, full recording and producing, before tackling making music videos and finally releasing the finished album.

It will hopefully be a wonderful experience for all, and we shall learn along the journey together.

What qualifies you to be doing this Making of an Album series? I've never heard of you!

A fine question indeed, and true, that Cosmic Bos is not exactly a well known musical outfit, but in our defence, we have been making music for a long time, with over 20 albums of improvised/revised music available and several other proper albums sprinkled through our past.

Go on then, tell us about Cosmic Bos.

Cosmic Bos came into existence back in 2016, and we released our debut album '7 Billion' in 2017, which has been followed by 3 Seasons of Improvised music podcasting.

Direct link to our podcast

In 2021 Cosmic Bos released 'Virtual Normality' EP, a 5 track proper record, that was designed as the taster for this very Album of a Making podcast project.

So as you can see, we have made a lot of music, which qualifies us to appoint ourselves as qualified to make a podcast about making an album. Ultimately the measure of success of aforementioned project is an actual album existing at the end of it all, which, we confidently think there will be, also, Cosmic Bos is not affiliated with any record labels, so our interest in making an album is legitimately about Making a GOOD album of real music, not a product for lining already overlined pockets.

All music featured in this podcast was made by Cosmic Bos and is available to hear or if you can afford it, buy, at all good online musical stores.

Tracklist for Episode 1

1. Faded Memories
2. Take it Easier (from 'Virtual Normality' EP)
3. Ride Another Wave (from 'Virtual Normality' EP)
4. Where the Warp-zones Are (from '7 Billion')
5. Let's Go Dancing (from 'Ep.14: Utopia in a Cornucopia')
6. Ensemble Story

Both Faded Memories & Ensemble Story come from our upcoming new Improv(squared) album and are both available now.

Here's a Spotify player for convenient listening needs.

Check out the videos for our double A side singles in our podcast feed and on our youtube (or instagram if that's your thang)

We hope you have found this informative and interesting, as the series progresses we will delve into much greater depth on all the in's and out's of album construction, and hopefully we will learn a thing or two on the journey. It's exciting and fills the existential crisis hole that forever questions if we are all just living in a simulation that was literally turned on only twenty minutes ago, and all our memories are merely loaded in code, and our hopes and dreams are just glitches in a system that teeters on collapse under it's own weight at any given moment. Ahem.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

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