So 'Brand New' is the final old film presentation from our album The COVID 1920's, and hopefully you will get a kick out of it. The song is beautifully sung by Nick, and it is the final song on our yearly slate, ending the album.
The cartoon from 100 years ago happens to be an interesting blueprint for Tom and Jerry, and later Itchy and Scratchy, fascinating stuff indeed.
As the year is nearing its close, we have one final Words of Wisdom presentation to come, and then we will end the year with our Best of Season 3. Thank you for all your support this year, it has been a wild ride in the improvised musical podcast land, and we will be making some changes to the formula for our 4th season.
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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
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:
The Eleventh Hour
Ignore the Alarm
Ay Kalimba
Higher Frequency
Empowerment
Broken by Desire
Signs of Repetition
Make this Right
Thinking Solutions
Words of Wisdom 9: Medicine Women (ft. Shonagh Home)
Wordless Wisdom
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
