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
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.
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.
Here it is, the first proper episode of the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos
Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos
Episode 1.1 - New Beginnings
@CosmicBos have a wonderful show for you here, the opening tracks to some potentially groundbreaking albums, 17 songs on the slate from a plethora of music makers.
Nick and Andy take you through the New Beginnings songs, and Spoiler Alert! They are awesome.
#NewBeginnings Songs
Nude Beginnings (Monthly version) - Cosmic Bos
Letters from Home - Trench Gun
New Beginnings - Peter Hawkey
Starting Over - Steve 3rd Echo Sounds
New Beginnings - Hellwaddler
Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn
New Beginnings - The Word Alchemist (and Cosmic Bos)
New Beginnings - ASeaWarren
What a lineup! Go check out all these wonderful musicians on the socials, tell them how awesome they are.
If that wasn't enough, we opened up the floor to the other hashtags for the month run by @MusicWeeklies (go check out our partners in crime on this musical adventure) on Twitter
The other hashtags for the month were
#Pixels Songs
9. One Pixel at a Time - Cosmic Bos 10. Pixel - Aaliya Mondesir Lovely Mango 11. Pixels - Hellwaddler
#Geisha Songs
12. The Geisha Song - Cosmic Bos 13. The Mystery Summer Geisha - Hidama 14. Curse of the Geisha - Hellwaddler
#Industrial Songs
15. Industrial - Scowsh Molosh 16. Industrial - Hellwaddler 17. We Worked Hard for You - Cosmic Bos
A massive thank you to all the artists that submitted to this episode, you are amazing and we are really excited to see where your Monthly Music Challenge album goes.
The hashtag for episode 1.2 is #Escape
So get writing your escape songs now, go, have a Pina Colada (wink, wink), come up with a catchy hook.
Here is the YouTube video version should you like your Monthly Music served in that particular fashion
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
P.S - we also made a lyric video to go with Nude Beginnings Monthly Version, it would have had it's own blog but I missed the timing on it's release, so it gets to live here on the end of this blog instead.
Welcome to this quick little podcast containing Cosmic Bos's entry to the #industrial music challenge presented by Music Weeklies.
We Worked Hard for You by Cosmic Bos
This is my (Andy's) song about industrial action, going on strike, standing up for workers rights.
#Industrial marks the final hashtag for January and you can submit tracks made under this banner up until the 3rd Feb 2023 (just in case you are reading this in the future, which you most defiantly are because it is impossible for you to be reading it at the point I am writing it, unless you have some kind of time travel camera that can film the past as if it were now, in which case, please share that technology with us)
The weekend will be Monthly Music Challenge 1.1 New Beginnings, and you can still submit your songs made around that banner until the 3rd Feb too (as well as Pixels and Geisha).
Please like, share and subscribe, and tell all your musical friends to listen and take part.
We have made a video to go with our #NewBeginnings track, which we will drop at the weekend too, excited for you all to hear it, Nick has done a bang up job and the opening track to our Monthly Music Challenge Album is, well, a banger.
Here's the YouTube version of We Worked Hard for You, with the video I made for it.
So, finally, we will be putting out MMC 1.1 - New Beginnings as an EP, containing our 4 Music Weeklies tracks (Nude Beginnings, One Pixel at a Time, The Geisha Song and We Worked Hard for You), it will be available for bandcamp Friday, so please get your wallets ready.
The third hashtag for Music Weeklies January set was #Geisha
I (Andy) knew little to nothing about Geisha, their traditions and culture, I had heard of them, and I'd seen the trailer to Memoirs of a Geisha, I even remember the book being out. That was it though, until the hashtag was announced and I (still Andy) had to do some research.
Now I love Geisha
Here is the youtube video
To make this, I used an authentic Japanese Geisha Dance song, added some modern drums and bass, a sprinkling of synths and a bit of production twinkling, and the result is, well, above.
You can now submit Geisha songs to the Monthly Music Challenge for inclusion in the first full episode. You have until the 3rd Feb to submit. Check the podcast for details.
As the Monthly Music Challenge is now underway, I (Andy) have turned my attention back to the wonderful world of Music Weeklies and their extra hashtags for the month. Nick is busy working on Nude Beginnings for our Monthly submission (see other blogs on this page for details), while I have been having some fun with some synthesisers.
I present to you, my submission for #Pixels - One Pixel at a Time
This was a fun one to make, neglecting the guitar in favour of pure synthetic sound, something a singer/songwriter has trouble doing, but it can be a refreshing change of pace, and since we are in New Beginnings January it seemed appropriate to go all in on something different.
The submissions have been coming in for the Monthly Music Challenge, you still have a bit of time if you wanted to get in on the fun from the start. #NewBeginnings - make a song up around that theme, go, get it done and then send it to Cosmic Bos and they will spin it on their podcast. You have till the 3rd of Feb 2023 to get them in for this hashtag, next months tag will be revealed on the 3rd Feb in the evening.
Right, have a wonderful week you lovely people,
Back to the musical grindstone for me
Peace and infinite love
Andy (Cosmic Bos)
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It was a big weekend for Cosmic Bos, we put out our first Monthly Music Challenge song, Nude Beginnings - the weeklies version of our #newbeginnings song. And here it is:
And the video version too, from our lil old utub
If that wasn't enough, we were also interviewed on the amazing New Music Saturday show, and here that is too:
Massive thanks to Dr. Bones and Mike5 for having us on, we could have chatted to them for hours, and Spoiler Alert! but we will be back on the show midyear to give an update on the Monthly Music Challenge.
The bangs just keep being 2023 shaped.
We also did a little acoustic version of Nude Beginnings to show it's stripped down basic essence, so nude, we nuded Nude Beginnings.
We have already had several submission for the MMC #NewBeginnings challenge, and there is still a couple of weeks before the closing date for subbing, so if this idea is peaking your musical interest then come aboard, the staff are mostly friendly on the good ship Cosmic Bos, and we are here to answer anything we can.
Nick is busy tweaking up Nude Beginnings, he's already done quite a bit and it is sounding nice. Got to redo the vocals and add harmonies still, but it's coming together nicely.
