Vaccine - Cosmic Bos Improv Squared (Official Music Video)

 Hello friends,

With the full album coming out very soon (1st April in fact), Cosmic Bos would like to turn your attention towards our latest single 'Vaccine'.

It is advised that you listen to the song at least twice to make sure you are fully Vaccinated, but for complete coverage it is advised you listen at least once a day.

This song has been released alongside a companion A side, 'Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See' which will be getting the video treatment too, we just haven't finished it yet (it has been filmed, just needs editing)

The music for Vaccine was made by doing layered improvisation, with our special guest Chris Mace joining the Bos bro's, meaning only two rounds were needed (although we may have done three rounds, I scares remember). The music was then matched up with a previously written poem by Andy Jackson called 'Vaccine'. 

Here is the original full poem

VACCINE by Andy Jackson

The world is a scary and dangerous place

But based on the numbers, the human race

Is doing just peachy and spreading out quickly

You can tell coz the host body’s getting quite sickly

Could it be true, just like the flu

We are the virus, the variants too

Earth did some healing when we stared at the ceiling,

Imagine if earth gets the vaccine for you

Sure we are clever and built for adaption

But Gia’s been having an allergic reaction 

She’s depleted and requires serious attention 

It’s unmediated, A Greta intervention 

We are the virus, earth is the host

She’s having a stroke, can you smell burning toast?

We’ve got to act fast, we risk getting the ghost

If toxic shock sets in we’ve an hour at most

Harmonious living tween host and microbes 

The employees are wearing the emperor’s clothes

Earthquake, tsunamis, volcanos and fires

Are vaccines for us, the deadliest virus

Heart disease, cancer, common colds and flu 

Are all types of vaccine, if the virus is you

So bigger picture, it isn’t all gloom

Let’s change our behaviour, there’s still wiggle room 

Old ways of thinking should remain in the tomb

Stop staring at Lara with a hundred times zoom

We are just moments on a timeline of plenty

We enter with nothing and pretend we aren’t empty 

But once we’re fulfilled any more is just greedy

The overspill should be providing the needy

And anything we take we give in return 

Earth owe us nothing, we need to learn

Ignorance is letting half of the world burn

Self fulfilling vaccine as the tables turn 

...

Few more words there then in the song, but there was no way to fit the whole poem in so it got a little butchered to fit the music.

Coming of the 1st April is the full album Cosmic Bos Improv Squared: Petite Champignon de Lumiere

11 tracks, all in some way crafted using our new music making technique, Improv Squared. Including the singled 'Faded Memories', 'Ensemble Story', 'Astral Underwear', 'Forever Bruised', 'Vaccine' and 'Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See'.

As previously mentioned, there is another video to come for this album, and then potentially another one after that for the song 'Back is Back'. More on that to follow.

The album will also be getting a bandcamp release to hopefully get us some much needed revenue.

Thanks for being awesome

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Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here's the YouTube version for anyone who prefers their music videos served up in that particular fashion, or if the podcast one above doesn't work.

Videos for Cosmic Bos Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's (Higher Frequency, Broken by Desire & Thinking Solutions)

 So friends,

Cosmic Bos have been busy tying up the lose ends of the year, and what a year it has been. We have released 1 Improv-revised album, 4 fully improvised albums and a 5 track proper EP. It's been a hoot an a holler that's for sure.

We are deep in the planning stages for 2022, and we have some stone cold zinger ideas lined up we can tell ya. 

Season 3 has come to a close as far as new material goes.

Our final album of the year 2021 was Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's, and it can be listened to right here right now :D

We made some video's to go along with it, and they have been featured on our youtube page and such, but have remained unblogged until now. So I present to you, some of the videos from The COVID 1920's

HIGHER FREQUENCY

BROKEN BY DESIRE

THINKING SOLUTIONS

Wow! That's a lot of video action right there, I bet your eyes are well tired now and would probably like to take a well earned break, but if they could just bare with for a paragraph or two more, I would be most grateful.

There is one more video to come from The COVID 1920's, and that is for the albums final track 'Brand New', and it continues the theme of 100 year old footage, it will be with you next weekend.

Then we will be dropping our best of season 3 around the 18th of December, and boy oh boy is it a long one this year. Nick and Andy have already recorded it and 2021 sure had some times in it.

Thank you for your time, more coming down the line soon, as always

Peace and infinite love

(Andy) Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos - Virtual Normality EP (Season 3 Special Presentation)

 So friends,

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...

Cover Art by Gecko

Cosmic Bos - Virtual Normality EP

1. Space Babies

2. Take it Easier

3. It's Always You

4. Stay Inside (ft. Texmex Shaman)

5. Ride Another Wave

Available on Spotify Virtual Normality on Spotify

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.

Check him out on Spotify here Texmex Shaman on Spotify

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.

Please subscribe to our shenanigans, and drop us a comment, we love to know what you think of our work, even if you think it stinks and we could do better, constructive criticism is better than no feedback. 

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

Summer Beach Kalimba Jam party 2021 - Cosmic Bos go all thumb piano

 Hello friends,

I hope the summer is treating you well

We here at Cosmic Bos have been busy recording an EP (coming very soon), as well as our next Improvisation podcast, so plenty of new material coming up in the near future.

In between this though, we have been having jams on the beach with Kalimbas.

Kalimba Beach Jam #1

Kalimba Beach Jam #2

Kalimba Beach Jam #3

It has been great fun playing the Kalimba, and it makes a big appearance in our next improvised album (which we've recorded already but not mixed yet, or worded up with wisdom).

Big thanks to Joe Philogene for being such a legend, he truly has made 2021 an exciting year of musical exploration and Cosmic Bos wouldn't be the same without him.

Coming Up next: An EP, some silliness in video form, and more.

Peace and infinite love

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Words of Wisdom 5: Charlie Chaplin (1940 speech from The Great Dictator)

 Hello friends,

Cosmic Bos presents Words of Wisdom 5: Charlie Chaplin

 With improvised music provided by Cosmic Bos as part of Improvisation 3: Summadelica

 The speech comes from Charlie Chaplin's film The Great Dictator (1940) and it is a zinger indeed, it's already done the rounds on the internet many times, and it was always the plan to use it as one of our Words of Wisdom series, you can find the full film on the internet and youtube etc, it's well old and the copyright on it is dubious. 

Check out our other words of wisdoms if you haven't already, and there are further ones to come from this very record including Nelson Mandela, Greta Thunberg and Ram Dass, it's a lot of wisdom I can tell ya.

The track and it's musical brothers can be found on Spotify 

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Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here is the YouTube link for if the podcast one is being an ass for some reason

Words of Wisdom 4: Ram Dass (Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections tracks 10&11)

 So friends, time for more Ram Dass

Cosmic Bos presents Words of Wisdom 4: Ram Dass

Music improvised by Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson. 

This is an excerpt from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections

Video by Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson, 

ft. footage of Cosmic Bos improvising the music that goes with this very song.

Words of Wisdom by Ram Dass taken from the Here and Now podcast, link to episode below

https://beherenownetwork.com/confusion/ 

Please support the Here and Now foundation, and listen to many many amazing talks by Ram Dass on that awesome podcast. 

P.S - The audio only version of this is on our album and in our podcast feed.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Stayed Here for the Feeling - Cosmic Bos Sunrise Reflections (track 9 of 13)

 So friends,

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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Feel the World - Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections (track 6 of 13)

 Hello friends,

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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Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Intentionally - Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections (track 5 of 13)

 So friends, intentionally,

The fifth track from Improv 2 finds us back with a set of lyrics to contemplate existence and some trippy visuals to sooth the eyes.

Percussions - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson

Intentionally - lyrics by Andy Jackson

Intentionally slowing down

Potentially turn this frown

Upside down and inside out

See what this is all about

Trickery came thick at me 

Distorted all reality

But truth wins eventually 

Tunnelling through intentionally 

Intentionally freaking out

Sucking juice from seeds of doubt

Drafting up the backless gown

Mooning the entire town

Trickery comes down the line

Causing shifts in fickle time 

But truth will win the vintage wine

Intentionally solving the crime 

Intentionally, Potentially, Intentionally

On a simple chord sequence, the Bos chaps present a haunting tale of intentions, facing the trickery that we face daily, not being afraid to stand up for ourselves, be questioning, don't just accept apathy, be present in the moment so you can live your life with intention, intentionally.

Joe beats the frame drums to the rhythm of our souls, while Nick wails the woes with the electric and Andy teaches his acoustic a lesson in strumming. Fun stuff indeed. This song, like all the previous songs in this presentation has begun it's journey as an improvisation, come up with there and then, with the pre-written lyrics serving as a guide for some thoughtful rhymes and vibes, when the lyrics are left to also be improvised they tend to lean towards the silly side of the spectrum rather then the profound.

The full episode and album are available.

Our podcast feed is a fun place, come check it out

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Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

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,

Find us on youtube, and Spotify, and iTunes etc. all the places

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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

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Time is Now - Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections (track 1 of 13)

 Hello lovely friends,

Welcome to the introductory part of our special presentation

Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2 : Sunrise Reflections

We start at the beginning, as everything must, the Time is Now

Cover for Improvisation 2

Sunrise is such a wonderful time of the day, 

Time is Now - Cosmic Bos Improvisation

Percussion - Joe Philogene

Electric Guitar & Vocals - Nick Jackson

Acoustic, Synth & Vocals - Andy Jackson

When we begin one of our improvised journeys we have to set the levels of the microphones and things, you know, technical stuff, but the music starts before we can sort out all that. This song is us testing out the recording levels, and it came out alright, so it opens this journey.

Letting the music decide the course of the journey is exciting, and utilising a little bit of editing trickery, we have been able to project sunrises all around us. So our journey begins with Sunrise, the time is now, and our journey will be full of reflections of this opening moment, it's time to come get lost with Cosmic Bos.

Our music makes good meditation music, or just general chilling out, it's relaxing not taxing, thank you for taking the time to explore these awesome creative realms with us, sharing and commenting helps spread the peace and rhythm, we do this for the music.

Check out the full playlist of our improvised musical musings right here courtesy of YouTube (it's this little video site, you might of heard of it)

Thanks for your time, we love you

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

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers - Cosmic Bos/Acoustic Cover #5

 So dear friends,

the world is weird, things are weird, but we can still cover songs and have fun doing it. But, if you can tolerate this, then your children will be next, so send them the link to watch the video.

Here is the stuff I wrote on YouTube under this video

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers - Cosmic Bos Acoustic Cover #5 

Andy and Nick take on the mighty Manic Street Preachers song with their acoustical funliness, hopefully pushing the very important message of this song into peoples earholes, we all need to stand up for ourselves, and the more we put up with being treated like scum, the more we tell our children that this is acceptable behaviour. 

Power is always with the people, the illusion it isn't is also always with the people. Conspiracies and Governments both push the same agenda, the belief that a collection of slightly evolved primates can run and control everything for over 7 Billion other primates. The quicker we realise that no one is any better then anyone else and we are all just standing at a point in our existence where we can choose to usher in the change we want to see, or we can allow the lunatics to tell us what to do and keep this asylum party going until it literally runs out of fuel and claps out on the side of the road.

So yeah, acoustic covers, that's what you actually came here for, and this one if a personal favourite of Nick and Andy. 

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Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos all over your year (with fresh improv and covers galore)

 So friends,

Rubber gloves are off, it's knuckling down time, time to business like adults, no more playing in the sand pits of despair, no more swinging on the swing of moods, let's year the hell out of this thing, yeah!

Already we are in the second month of 2021, and it's been pretty much a condensed version of 2020, oh boy, just what we always wanted, more pandemic-ammonium, yum yum, that's a medicine I can happily take without a spoonful of sugar.

It's like we are all waiting for something...

Thanks Anya for acting and singing there, amazing performance. Sorry we kept you waiting so long.

Artwork by Izzy Randall

You see, we recorded the album that is Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In all the way back on the 25th of July 2020, with the 3 Bos boys (Macey, Nick and Andy) and Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird. It was originally slated to be the penultimate episode of Season 2 (2020), but due to unforeseen circumstances it was pushed back to being the first episode of Season 3. On the very next day (26/7/2020) we recorded another record (Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.18: Virtual Normality) with Anya and Ben again. This was originally to be the very last episode of Season 2 (2020) but due to the aforementioned unforeseen circumstances it has now been relocated to the second episode of Season 3 (2021).

Best laid plans and all that, you just never know quite how things will go, so, you know you'll never really know, you know!

Sometimes you don't always get what you Aim for. Take it away Anya

Thanks again Anya, a truly awesome single there, something worth sharing with everyone you ever meet. It is available on all platforms, except train platforms as there is no direct video or musical feature to the rail industry.

If you are in need of a link to the full Anya & Ben episode, find it just below these very words, in embedded player form.

The year is set to continue, I don't think time is going anywhere other than forwards at the same speed it's been travelling for a while now. We here at Cosmic Bos have been running some complex tests, tuning some instruments, tweaking some knobs (completely un-music related activity) and have calibrated our equipment to be able to bring you Cosmic Bos Acoustic Covers (CB/AC), starting off proceedings with a little song called Live Forever by Oasis

Do you know what I mean?

If you do then please email me at cosmicbos@gmail.com and tell me what I mean.

Thanks for your precious time,

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In (ft. Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird)

Hello lovely you,

Gosh you are amazing, how do you do it so effortlessly? I want to know your secrets, but not now, this is neither the time nor place for such wisdom, this is a blog about a podcast, the first Cosmic Bos improv revised album of 2021, featuring the outstandingly talented Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird, without further wasting of your time with meaningless words, I present to you Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In (you already knew the title, it says it at the top, don't go acting like it was a revelation of any kind)

Artwork by Izzy Randall

Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In

Tracklist:

1. Waiting
2. Aim
3. Wicker Bells
4. Never Ending Summer
5. Eyes
6. Feral Girl
7. It's Not Gonna Go Well
8. Rear View Mirror
9. Ben's Shiny Car
10. Witching Hour
11. Beautiful Stories
12. Grey Clouds Came and Took the Summer Away

All music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson, Ben Bluebird and Anya Louisa

Revised and mastered by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson

The album on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/0ex2KrTXKqQ4W3PcprmO5r?si=Ei1QFsnxQcuNLm-qM2vu6w

Season 3 starts with a magic trick, watch as we improvise and then revise an entire album from one days jamming session. It's the same trick we have now pulled 17 times, but it's a good trick and it has a vastly different outcome every time, so, ta dah! 

Anya Louisa brings a whole new dimension to the Cosmic Bos set up, and Ben Bluebird spices up the music and vocal atmosphere just lovelily, big thanks to them both.

We tackle the big questions on everyones minds, like, is magic real? do Magicians need dating apps specially designed for their illusionist needs? How should you rub your wicker bells so as not to get blisters on your fingers? All these questions and more won't be answered in this podcast, but they might get discussed, maybe. At least you have 12 improv songs with beautiful vocals by Anya to enjoy.

Here are the two video's that accompany the episode as well, should you wish to view them, once you've finished listening to the episode of course :)

Waiting

Aim

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New single 'Aim' ft. Anya Louisa coming 1st Feb, here's a teaser for ya

 Oh friends,

Our new single 'Aim' is coming on the 1st Feb. We are super excited to share this with you all, it is probably the best single we have ever released as Cosmic Bos and the vocal work by Anya Louisa is outstanding.

Here's a sneaky peeky

The video is a homage to computer games, as you can tell from this teaser.

The single will be available on all good streaming sites on the 1st Feb, the cover looks like this, so you can't miss it, please save it and share it, love it and caress it, nibble at it's tender bits and share it with all you socially distance come in contact with. 

The album from which this delicious single is taken (Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In) features the amazing musical talents of Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird, and will be available soon. It's 12 tracks of improv-revised loveliness that can hopefully help you through these tough confusing times. 

Anyway, not long to wait now...

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos - 2020 Vision - A retrospective on an interesting year

 So friends,

The final month of this delightful year is here, and well, yeah

Tracklist:

1. Making it Up as We Go Along
2. Music is Happiness Dancing in Your Ears
3. Shopping Online
4. We are the Workers
5. Walking Stereo
6. Pondering
7. Dance Floors Dawning
   
8. No Blue Blues
9. Existential Blip
10. Some Days
11. Muse-Simulation Theory
12. Game Over, Man

All songs by Cosmic Bos

Our resident monkeys, Jethro & Jeffrey, are joined by Nick from Cosmic Bos to discuss the highs and lows of 2020. There was plenty to discuss, it has been a big year full of worldwide events that effected most people (and monkeys) the world over in some sense. But have no fear, for Cosmic Bos are here to offer up some soothing improv-revised music and light bants to help with the transition into the next potentially crazy year.

2020 Vision, it really has been that hasn't it. High hopes at the start, high hopeless at the end. We've all been through something this year, something that won't quickly be forgotten, some fundamental changes to our very cores, new views on old news, scare tactics and mad frantics, it's not what we planned for and nothing like expected, but it happened and we are still here in some sense, so might as well make the most of it and soldier ever on into the great unknown. 

We began 2020 with 'Focus' - a step up in our improv-revised sound, and a step up in our video production. Through the year we have experimented with our Toy videos, done actual animation with lego and cut outs of ourselves, played around with green screen umbrellas, made lockdown music videos, released a 7 part documentary about ourselves and how great we are, as well as 8 acoustic raw songbook videos, and released 8 albums of music with 12 episodes of our podcast. Not bad for such a trying year.

in 2020 Cosmic Bos made 20 music videos, 19 for themselves and 1 for Anya Louisa. You can watch the year in reverse video wise from 'Road Trip' to 'Focus'.

A hoot and a hola indeed.

While 2020 has been a positive creative year for Bos, 2021 looks to be far brighter and creativer, with the Best of Season 2 coming out in January 2021, it will be closely followed by our next single 'Aim', which features Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird and marks the start of Season 3. We are currently squirrelling away on the pre production for the video, and the album/episode is well underway, still untitled as of this moment of blogging, but it will be released on the 1st of February 2021, so it will have a name before that, and we will share that name once we have come up with it. 

Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation on Itunes

So anyway, hope you liked it, our little retrospective. Here is the Spotify embed for anyone who likes their podcast spotty. Please Like, Share and Subscribe to all our fun-ness, we love you forever in exchange.  

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos (Happy new year everyone)      

Road Trip - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video using Lego)

 Hello friends,

With 2020 drawing to its inevitable conclusion, and the hopes that 2021 will not be a poorly thought out sequel but instead a brand new bold direction for the Earth franchise, it is time to share our thoughts on this year. Here at Cosmic Bos we have put together a year revi... what?...no, it's the year review thing...oh, that's not todays blog? When is it then?...so this blog is?... Road Trip, of course, sorry, my bad, been hoping backwards and forwards through time a lot lately, got confused what date it was.

Without further adoing, we present to you Road Trip - An animated music video by Cosmic Bos

The video was made by Nick Jackson, using Lego Cosmic Bos and a green screen. The last shot reveals Andrea and Theo sat in the room in which most of our editing took place in 2020 and marks Theo's first appearance in a Bos video (pretty sure it won't be his last)

The song is taken from Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.16: Mask and Thy Shall Deceive, and it features Doug Rutter, it's on Spotify and amazon etc. Spotify album link

What a lot of fun that was, the final video in the Cosmic Bos 2020 arsenal. We hope you have enjoyed your time with us this year, we have thoroughly enjoyed our time with you. From 'Focus' to 'Road Trip' we have put out 19 music videos this year, as well as 8 acoustic songbook videos and a 7 part documentary about our antics that we made ourselves to feed our egos. With our egos fed, we are free to pursue our goals of further mining the improv music landscape and 2021 will be our best year yet, with some exciting surprises too.

Thanks for all the love,

Please like, share and subscribe

Our direct podcast link https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

Happy Days to all

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here is the YouTube version of the video if you couldn't get it to work on the podcast feed version, or if you are a streaming video snob who only likes YouTube links over other video hosting sites, we love you regardless of your snobbery.

Songs from the Songbook part 2 (more videos of songbook songs)

 So friends,

To continue on our adventure in the land of the songbook, I present to you the other 4 songs from the From the Songbook session 2020 in video form, direct from our podcast feed.

I Want

High

Heart Holder

Where's the Time?

All these wonderful songs are available in our podcast feed https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

And they are all featured on Cosmic Bos From the Songbook which is available in all good online record shops where you can download music (there is no physical copy, we don't print things as it is bad for the environment and ultimately a waste of resources.

Coming next month we will be returning to our Improv-Revisation podcasting with Ep.15: Astral Swimming, featuring the amazing talent that is Joe Philogene. It's shaping up nicely, with 11 deep introspective musings on the nature of existence, it's a bit different from our last dancy one, but it's good different, hopefully you will like it.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Songs from the Songbook (Cosmic Bos video presentation)

 Hello friends,

It's pretty hot this weekend, at least where I am it is, too hot to write long waffly blogs about silly nonsense, so I shall dispense with the usual waffle based blogitudes and move straight onto the main point of this here blog.

Cosmic Bos From the Songbook

Video presentation part 1

Love Defined

Spontaneous Plan

In Between

Two Little Stars

I hope you enjoyed all these lovely acoustic videos, there are 4 more to come, but that's for another blog in a couple of weeks. Stay cool my friends, love you

Andy (Cosmic Bos)