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,

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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.

A Tarot Tale - Cosmic Bos Music Video ft. Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot

 Oh dear friends,

The darkness has come to talk with us again, this time using Tarot, and some improvisation.

A Tarot Tale - Cosmic Bos

Taken from Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.16: Mask and Thy Shall Deceive

Music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson & Doug Rutter

Revised and Mastered by Chris Mace and Nick Jackson

Video by Andy Jackson, Hand acting by Abi Jackson

Tarot is an old thing that has been passed through time, maybe it's just a game, or maybe it's something more, tied into the very fabric of existence, guiding our fumbling mental states towards some kind of
personal evolution, letting us talk to ourselves in a way we can understand, or it could just be some very pretty cards that are nice to look at and ponder.

Whatever you think of Tarot, we here at Cosmic Bos have a set of Tarot cards (Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot) and we wanted to use them in an improvised session to make a song, which is what we did, and this very video is a reenactment of the original Tarot reading (literally, like, just what it says on the cards, no deeper analysis of context or meaning) set to the revised version of the original improvised song.

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We love you very much

Cosmic Bos 

Direct Podcast website link

Our Spotify artist page is clickable just here

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3tsVGLSdmqK9y6LhWslo7v?si=IUUSVUylTHm65NIFoGktxg - Totally shouldn't have let a random generator choose our original band name, 3tsVGLSdmq... would always just get shortened to 3t's anyway, which is what we wanted at the time usually, in fact, get the kettle on, it's time for a brew.

For anyone that would prefer the youtube link to the video, please find it embedded just beneath these very words that you didn't need to waste time reading because they contain no information and are merely taking valuable eyes seconds away from your life! Your life is slipping through your blinks, and you have just wasted at least a few of them on this bit of writing now, go on, move on, get on with your life, watch the video again, and again, and then share it with a friend, responsibly, don't go trying to force them to watch it, we are not in the business of forcefully inserting our music videos into unwilling participants, make sure they are willing, and then insert it into them, responsibly.

Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.16: Mask and Thy Shall Deceive (Ft. Doug Rutter)

 Hello dear friends,

We are here, at the 16h improv-revised outing of the Cosmic Bos team, this time featuring the vocal and musical talents of the one and only Doug Rutter (insert big round of applause)

What a joy it has been, this particular episode finds Jethro and Jeffrey without a guardian from Cosmic Bos, with Doug Rutter stepping in for Nick to keep the cheeky monkeys in check.

You can even get it on Spotify, the wonders of modern technology never cease to amaze do they?

Artwork by Jessica Tulley (3yrs old)

Ep.16: Mask and Thy Shall Deceive

Tracklist: 

1. Ode to Brackleys Bricklayers
2. Bees Knees
3. Gravity
4. Jetpack
5. Road Trip
6. Flavour
   
7. A Tarot Tale
8. Overly Sensitive
9. Cold Outside

All music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson and Doug Rutter

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

From the RSS feed : Cosmic Bos serve up an albums worth of revised improvisations, (ft. Doug Rutter) for the 16th experiment. This time round there is a lot more comedy sneaking into the musical side of proceedings, this is a fun ride. Jethro and Jeffrey are here to guide you through the musical treats and the deep discussion, with Nick not being available to record this one, Doug Rutter kindly stepped in to keep the monkeys in check and on topic. The topic being Masks and the many ways in which masks play an important role in all our lives. 

Check out the album version on Spotify

Follow us there too, we like followers, in fact, we love followers, you justify our very existence, please, come justify us on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3tsVGLSdmqK9y6LhWslo7v?si=uk7THOQPTy-9RJNGyNFKSQ 

So Youtube is a place as well, you may have heard of it, here is the playlist of the songs on there that you can listen to without all the enlightening chatter about masks.

Thanks for being amazing, we love you very much

Have a great month, and don't be afraid, it will all be okay, we promise

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Bos Trumps - Dance Suit

 Hello beautiful people,

Welcome to the very first edition of Bos Trumps, to kick off this new thing we totally didn't only just come up with, we present to you the Dance Suit, 20 of Cosmic Bos's danciest songs from our ever growing improvised(then revised) song catalogue. 

You can find it at all good podcast vendors (and a couple of the really dodgy ones too)

This is the dance suit, we will have 4 other suits coming at some point, but for now, it's time to dance. 

So get your dancing shoes on (everyone has special dancing shoes right?) and prepare for a jaunt and a jig as Jethro, Jeffrey and Nick play Bos Trumps.

What is Bos Trumps I hear you ask, well, it's normal trumps but with Bos songs instead of monsters or TV characters or poisonous fruits. What are Bos songs? Well, they are songs from the improv-revisation podcast made by Cosmic Bos. To date (1/10/2020) Cosmic Bos have released 15 improv(revised) albums, and the dancey songs are here in this suit of cards.

Usually the tracklist would appear here, and this is no different, so if you don't wish to have the order of the songs spoilt for you, don't read any further.

1. Let's Go Dancing
2. Music is Happiness Dancing in Your Ears
3. Llamas Lost Luggage
4. Frenchtronica
5. Egg
6. Dance Floors Dawning
7. Boatman
8. Up is the Only Way
9. All Weather Umbrella
10. Overreacting
11. Learn When to Stop
12. One Two Seven
13. Groove Jelly
14. Who Invited You?
15. Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming
16. Mood Stabilizers
17. The Maja Saga pt.2 - On the Run
18. Einstein on my Mind
19. Moon Gazing
20. Infinite Possibilities Club

All music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson, with guests Joe Philogene, Ashley Carter, Bob Duffield, Paul Bradley and Charlie Gibbs

All music revised and mastered by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson.

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Make Believe - Cosmic Bos ft. Joe Philogene

Friends,

What a crazy time it is, 2020! Am I right?

Well, Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.15: Astral Swimming ft. Joe Philogene has been out almost a whole month now! Wow!

We made a video for Make Believe (the opening track of aforementioned record) - back at the beginning of Sept 2020, it's been out a while but I had not gotten around to blogging about it, and due to unforeseen hunger I had neglected to revisit the particular tab on the laptop that contained the blog posting thing which I do the thing from, you know what it's like, jelly, it's like jelly, and now I'm hungry again, good work brain!

Here it is direct from our podcast feed

And here are some stills from the video

Nick Jackson

Joe Philogene

Chris Mace

Andy Jackson

JoNiAnCh Philojacksce

Chr-And-Joe-Nic MacJacPhiloson

Just another floating heads in the wall

How did we achieve this amazing effect?  You are most definitely asking yourself right now, unless you have already glanced at the photo below which clearly shows you how we did it, but I implore you not to spoil the surprise by having a sneaky peek and instead get your information from these very words you are reading right now...thank you for humbling this collection of letters, I am in your debt. So anyway, it was done with a green screen which we put our heads through...you realised already didn't you, you looked, you looked at the picture and were just humouring me by reading these words...well, I don't want your pity, it hurts, you know, deep down, in the pit of my alphabet that you could do this, just skipping ahead with your eyes as if these words didn't even exist, as if my very existence as a piece of pointless blogging containing minimal information and questionable attempts as comedy is of no significance what so ever or ever so what. Fine, I'm done now anyway, I shall lay my words to rest, goodbye cruel world, goodbye and good luck... ((sounds of a sentence dying))

Here is the YouTube version should the direct podcast link above not be to your particular liking.

You are welcome to take a copy home with you to show your pets.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.15: Astral Swimming (ft. Joe Philogene)

So friends,

We have reached September in the year of 2020 vision, and for this months Bos offering we proudly present our 15th improvised (and then revised) album, in the form of a podcast about Astral Swimming.

Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation podcast

Ep.15: Astral Swimming 

Tracklist: 

Artwork by Rueben Cooper

1. 
   
2. Make Believe
3. Boatman
4. Let it All Out
5. Primary Colours
6. Egg
7. When Harmony Reigned
8. Time
9. Wu
10. Vices
11. Hard Times
12. Astral Swimming Lessons

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

Revised and Mastered by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson.

In this episode, Jeffrey, Jethro and Nick tackle the illuminating subject of Astral Projection, explaining some of it, trying some for themselves, and offering you to come on an adventure to astral town (note: Astral Town did not agree to be featured in this podcast and hence us all visiting it together is a violation of imagination law, imagine that!). This stimulating conversation is punctuated with 11 improv(revised) songs featuring the awesome talent Joe Philogene, deep musical dives into some serious and thoughtful places,

Please like, share and subscribe, spread the word, spread the bread, spread the love

Our direct podcast link is right here, you are hovering over it right now

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You can find the album version of the episode without all the waffly chat there. 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3tsVGLSdmqK9y6LhWslo7v?si=jUTzQp1NTFe7aHj6CAwVUw  

Thanks for listening, 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos