Cosmic Bos Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's

 So friends,

The end of the year is near, and 2021 has been one hell of a one indeed.

To end our musical adventure for season 3 of our podcast, we present to you Cosmic Bos Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's 

Cosmic Bos

Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's

Tracklist: 

1. The Eleventh Hour
2. Ignore the Alarm
3. Ay Kalimba
4. Higher Frequency
5. Empowerment
6. Broken by Desire
7. Signs of Repetition
8. Make this Right
9. Thinking Solutions
10. Words of Wisdom 9: Medicine Women (ft. Shonagh Home)
11. Wordless Wisdom
12. Brand New

All music improvised by Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson.

Mixed and Mastered by Andy Jackson

Our final improvised presentation for you in 2021 is our 4th fully improvised (not revised) session, recorded on 21st August 2021.

With pre-written lyrics aplenty, the Cosmic Bos chaps tackle some weighty subjects, ranging from Power struggles to Human evolution, Medicine and History, with a healthy sprinkling of suggestions on how to maybe make things right rather then taking this hand basket all the way to hell.

Our Words of Wisdom presentation for this episode comes from the Psychedelic Salon https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-470-enter-the-medicine-woman/ with Shonagh Home, and is about Medicine Women. Visit Shonagh on her awesome website www.shonaghhome.com

Thank you for taking the time to listen to our musical explorations, it has been an amazing music adventure in 2021 for us at Cosmic Bos and we are truly excited to explore even further in 22. But that's the future, and we are here now, so enjoy this moment.

There are a few videos still to come from our COVID 1920's exploration, with Broken by Desire, Thinking Solutions and Brand New all having vids we've made. Here is Higher Frequency featuring footage from Mark of Zorro from 1920.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - We are planning to do our Best of Season 3 in December this year rather than hanging it over to next year, so we can start fresh with an exciting new thing we have in our bag of tricks.

Thanks for all the support in 2021, we love you.

Ignore the Alarm - Cosmic Bos (Official Buster Keaton 1920's Music Video)

 Hello friends,

November has swept in and prepares us for the seasonal shifts that do strange things to our minds.

Alarm bells be ringing, but no one seems to be listening.

Ignore the Alarm - Cosmic Bos

Taken from Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's

The next in our fully improvised album series is the 4th outing for Joe, Nick and Andy, serving up 12 improv pieces, one of which is a Words of Wisdom about Medicine Women (Shonagh Moon), and one of course is the above 'Ignore the Alarm'.

Video featuring Buster Keaton in an amazing performance in a film called 'Neighbours'.

https://youtu.be/tM0SeH8rcBg - Original film from 1920. Amazing, such detailed film making.

The album will be on all good platforms on the 20th of November. There will also be a couple more video releases before then, with the next single 'Brand New' all lined up ready for next week.

We are excited to present this record to you, it's a bit different from the previous 3 improvised albums, certainly has a flavour all its own, but such is the nature of improvisation, it's like a box of chocolates, you never know which movie reference you're gonna get.

Thanks for being awesome, we love you here at Cosmic Bos.

Have a wonderful day

Cosmic Bos

Here is the YouTube link to the video should the podcast link above have let you down, or you just prefer to support the big tube in the sky.

Take it Easier - Cosmic Bos (Official cute baby music video)

 Hello friends,

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.

The EP is available on Spotify right here

https://open.spotify.com/album/7ybhfdI27lXOhtjcvboDTh?si=Kq-o_rNxTiCSq1O3kupCKg

Peace and infinite love

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

Space Babies - Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality version

 So friends,

From the podcast feed

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.

New 5 Track EP coming 1st October: Cosmic Bos - Virtual Normality

 Hello friends,

So we have been squirrelling away on an EP for the past few months, it started life as just a couple of singles we wanted to put out, but it evolved into the 5 track Virtual Normality that will be available to listen to on the 1st October 2021 (of course, it wouldn't be 2022 would it! that would be too far away to be announcing now).

Virtual Normality Cover by Gecko

The amazing cover was done by Gecko, check him out, he does awesome artwork for a variety of clientele, find him on instagram @i.am.gecko 

There are 5 tracks on it, opening with our reimagined version of Space Babies from our recent improvised sessions (complete with a new video coming with the EP), Take it Easier, It's Always You, Stay Inside (ft. Texmex Shaman), and finally Ride Another Wave.

Stay Inside was spun exclusively on New Music Saturday, you can hear it right here

We are really excited to share this with you, and it's been a long time since we recorded a proper record that wasn't in some way improvised. All these songs were written with pen and paper (and guitar obviously) and we hope they show you what we are capable of if given the time to make music.

We already have our next improvisation album recorded, it requires mixing and wisdoming, and that will be with you at the start of November, but for now it's time to get excited about Virtual Normality, take it away toys!

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Words of Wisdom 8: Ram Dass (with improv music by Cosmic Bos)

 So friends, the last of the wise words from Summadelica,

Once again we invite to the stage, the one and only, Ram Dass

Taken from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 3: Summadelica

original Ram Dass audio from the awesome podcast Here and Now

https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-love-incarnation/

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Also we made this little snippet bit from the video, of Ram Dass explaining the incarnation process.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos