We meet again, this time over a meta musical fire to warm our collected souls, songs from the vault, the musical vault.
Available as an album on iTunes, spotify, deezer, other places
Cosmic Bos - From the Vault
Episode track list:
1. Keep Me Moving (C.Mace)
2. Crouching Singer, Hidden Microphone (C.Mace)
3. Live Up There (Donny Stax & A.Jackson)
4. If the Aliens Come (C.Mace & N.Jackson)
5. Weta (Meta-Cassette)
6. By Your Side (N.Jackson)
7. Hijinx (A.Jackson)
8. Let Your Love Rain on Me (C.Mace & N.Jackson)
9. Backbone (C.Mace & A.Jackson)
10. Rainbow Warrior (C.Mace)
All songs mastered by Chris Mace
Cosmic Bos have amassed a vast array of music over the years, some of it ready to release, some of it just musical sketches in the soundsand. Here for your listening pleasure are 10 songs from our archives.
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From episode 4 of Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation podcast, 'Up is the Only Way' is a dancy improv number that sets the tone for the whole episode, hence why it opens proceedings and got a video.
Our improv music podcast experiment is going quite well, so far
Please do a bit of the old liking, sharing and subscribing, the bread and butter of poor artists like us
Here is the youtube version, it's been up for ages and no one has watched it, which is fine, youtube no longer seems to be the platform for artistic up and comers, but it still is a place that we can put our little music videos, so that's something I guess.
Thanks for hanging around,
The next episode is a little something special (or lazy, depending on your perspective), it's called 'From the Vault'
10 songs from our musical collections of old/unreleased material, Hooray!
With a special guest appearance by Donny Stax
Coming to the podfeed on 1st May
Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation podcast
Episode 4: Pass-portal Control
Track listing:
1. Up is the Only Way
2. Mood Stabalizers
3. Making it Up as we Go Along
4. You Spin Me Round in Circles (not Squares)
5. Journey
6. Beautiful Lies
7. Sofa, So Good
8. Wire Shoe Laces
9. Simple Act of Kindness
All music improvised by Ashley Carter, Chris Mace, Nick Jackson & Andy Jackson
Revised and Mastered by Chris Mace & Andy Jackson
The title of this one is a reference to our silly toy video's, the ones with the tiny space bloke in, and the Swedish woman, and those tatty nutcrackers (Jimmy & Bimmy). They have a portal, and things can come through it, so it needs some sort of passport control, so that not just any old entity can come into our realm and start causing chaos on a galactic scale.
We recorded all the music for this episode back on the 6th of October 2018, one Octobery afternoon/evening, four musical stations set up, four musicians (Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson & special guest Ashley Carter) and plenty of snacks, with just a couple of breaks for a tea (and to air the room a little).
The episode is coming out at a time of high strangeness and confusion. Being British, us Cosmic Bosi are observing the flip flopping, all over the political floors, of the Brexit fish, which seems to have been born prematurely with little to offer outside of 'We're Out!', and a political system that seems to have mistaken the fact it is there to run the country for a tug-o-war over the Irish (again, a little bit of history repeating). Now, we are not a politically motivated musical movement, far from it in fact, we are politically motivated to movement maintenance mainly musical in nature, but our improvising on that day back in October last year has a spooky connection to Brexit.
What? Spooky you say? How so?
Well, it's not that spooky I guess, more, mildly interesting, maybe.
All the improv songs that came out of the session have titles that could be seen as political, or at least sociopolitical, 'Making it up as we go along', 'Beautiful lies, 'You spin me round in circles (not squares)' to highlight a few. It seems as if our improvising brains were trying to tell us something, I haven't been able to figure it out, I don't see any answers in the music, there probably isn't any there to see, and it's not worth looking, because if the answers to the political questions of our age can be found on an improvised musical podcast then, well, then we need more listeners who have political persuasive powers, hell, we just need more listeners.
Also, on an unrelated note, the episode is hosted by Jethro & Jeffrey (internet Z-list celebrities), check out their antics on our youtube channel.
Anyway, here is the video to 'Up is the Only Way'
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Well, I can't vouch for the directional advice of this improvised (and revised) song, but it sure does get the dance into my feet and the rhythm into my soul.
Up is the Only Way - is the opening track of Episode 4: Pass-portal Control, along with the previously released (like, a week ago) 'Journey' and 7 other revised improvisations.
All the music for this episode was improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson and special guest Ashley Carter (honorary Bos)
It was revised and mastered by Chris Mace and Andy Jackson
And it can all be yours for the grand total price of nothing on the 1st of April, 2019
Until then though, how about subscribing to Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation podcast so that you don't miss a single smidgin of our musical funliness.
It's on Spotify, and iTunes, and all that fluffy lovely goodness.
We have shot a video for Up is the Only Way, and it will follow shortly, just another of our cheap, shot on a phone affairs, it's a fun one, like the song. Check back soon for some visual Bos.
So, have a lovely time, whatever you do with it
Peace and infinite love
Tiny Spaceman and Maja are just hanging out, you know, like you do when you are a toy.
Then...well, why don't you just see for yourself.
See! Wow!
What an adventure, truly epic in the tiniest of ways.
The music - Journey by Cosmic Bos, is taken from the upcoming fourth instalment in the Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation podcast, Episode 4: Pass-portal Control, which is coming to all podstreams on the 1st of April (for real, no April fools...this year at least).
The single - Up is the Only Way - will come out soon(er then the episode), hopefully with an interesting video (we're going to make it, this weekend)
March has firsted, so it must be time for another Boscast outing
Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation podcast
Episode 3: Oxymoronic Atomic Hotel
Track Listing:
1. Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming
2. A Happy Place (ft. Donny Stax)
3. Nelson Mandela Effect
4. Liquorman
5. Hunter or Food (ft. Donny Stax)
6. Old Country
7. Someone Must Understand This (ft. Terence McKenna)
All music improvised by Chris Mace, Andy Jackson & Nick Jackson
raps on tracks 2 & 5 by Donny Stax (check him out, he's awesome) https://soundcloud.com/donnystax
sample of Terence McKenna on track 7 taken from the Psychedelic Salon podcast, available at all good podcasting stores too.
Revised, mixed and mastered by Chris Mace & Andy Jackson
copyright Cosmic Bos 2019
This episode is a little shorter then the first two, and there was lots of material left on the cutting room floor (which I've promised to clean up), but thanks to the tireless production efforts of Chris 'Jeffrey' Mace, the wordsmithery of Donny Stax and the samples of Tezza McKezza, something special was born (or revised). It's somewhat Oxymoronic, a little bit Atomic, and a smidgen Hotel.
Here is the video to 'Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming' - just in case you wanted to watch it The video was directed and edited by Nick Jackson, it starred Andy Jackson, and there was a special appearance by Abi Jackson, a whole lotta Jackson action
That's it for now, coming April 1st will be Episode 4: [currently unconfirmed irreverent title]
With a preview song/video coming at some point in March, probably a couple o weeks
You ever get that feeling, that you might still be dreaming, and this whole reality is just one long dream?
Well, 'Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming' is all about that, it's an improvised (and then revised) song from Episode 3: Oxymoronic Atomic Hotel of our little improv-revisation podcast
Song improvised and revised and mastered by Chris Mace and Andy Jackson
Video directed by Nick Jackson
Starring Andy Jackson
Special guest appearance by Abi Jackson
Wake me up, if you think you can...
Episode 3 has 7 new songs for you, including 'Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming' and 'Liquorman', as well as 2 tracks featuring Donny Stax, and guest hosts Jethro and Jeffrey, it's a riot in a bottle, coming 1st March
