Astral Underwear - Cosmic Bos Improv(Squared) (Official Music Video)

 Hello lovely friends,

Astral Underwear - Cosmic Bos

From the upcoming album

Improv Squared - Petit Champignon de Lumiere 

Andy and Nick created this song using improvisation layering, the beat, bass and synth were played in first round, then vocals and more synth, then backing vocals. Filming each round, the video was made by boxing up the performance and overlaying some stock footage.

The lyric was prewritten by Andy in the Book of Songs (or BoS as we call it) and it reads a little something like this...

ASTRAL UNDERWEAR

Artwork by Dayne Howcroft

Sitting still, at a desk, with a tie flopped on my chest
Counting seconds, lunchtime beacons, need the valuable rest
It’s hard on the knees, with legs lazy as these
Every movement, needs improvement, I won’t pass the test

But who cares?
The outside world is cruel and unfair
They stare
But no-one can see my astral underwear
I’m here
And simultaneously everywhere
I’m this
And everything else in between

Sit around, from sat to seated, shower, bed, repeat repeated
Counting days, rest is coming, long time been defeated
It’s hard on the head, cycling, work, home, bed
These energy levels are vastly depleted
Oh these energy levels are vastly depleted

But who cares?
The social world is cruel and unfair
Don’t share
Your invincible astral underwear
You’re here
Whilst simultaneously everywhere
Your you
And everything you ever want to do

While in astral clothing
Banish self loathing
Become anything you desire

Guarantee it will suit you
From flower to cashew
Be seagull, be water, be fire

Be anything you can desire
Be anything you can desire

...

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And if you would like to feature in an upcoming Improv Squared song, email us at cosmicbos@gmail.com for details.

Astral Underwear is paired with another song 'Forever Bruised' which is available on Spotify, Amazon etc. and will get it's own video treatment next weekend. It is quite the polar opposite as far as songs go, with a raw acoustic sound and powerful lyrics by Dayne Howcroft. 

Thanks for being awesome, we love ya

YouTube version for ya

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Coming 1st March is the next instalment in our Making of an Album series, check it out.

Ensemble Story - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

 Hell oh friends,

It's time for a music video, something we here at Cosmic Bos like to make to go along with our songs.

Ensemble Story - Cosmic Bos

Written and recorded by Andy and Nick Jackson

This song was one of the very first experiments in improv(squared) music creation. By improvising a 4 minute sound bed, Cosmic Bos layered on Guitar and Synth, followed by Bass and Vocal, and finally Backing Vocals, to create their 'Ensemble Story'.

Nick and Andy filmed themselves doing this, and that is what you are seeing in the video. Pure visual representation of music creation.

The lyrics were prewritten by Andy, and they go a little something like this:

Cover art by Dayne Howcroft

ENSEMBLE STORY

The weekend brings new music
Old music repackaged
Sounds remixed and reimagined
Sampled sounds of someone banging

Sun will shine some of the time
Under stars from galactic prime
Transitory won’t need glory
Existence is an ensemble story

The moon shows on a cycle
Orbits to plot changes by

Dreams remixed and reimagined
Cold truth leaves us somewhat damaged

Sun won’t shine all of the time
Over these hazy hopes of mine
Mandatory loss of glory
Life is an ensemble story

Song part of Cosmic Bos
Making of an Album podcast

Sit in meditative contemplation
Calmly size up our situation
For all is dust once said and done
Infinite shards of only one

Sun would shine all of the time
Resistance is our only crime
Momentary mandatory
Part of this ensemble story

...

...Here be the youtube link for all you YouTubians out there

Thank you for listening, please like, share and subscribe

Also, reviews and comments really help out us struggling creatives, so, if you've got the time, please

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Making of an Album Episode 1: Introduction (Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast Season 4)

 Hello friends,

Welcome to the first episode of our limited series 'Making of an Album'

How does one make an album?

That is the question at the heart of this special podcast presentation, and Nick & Andy from Cosmic Bos are going to break it down for you, from writing the songs, to demo stage, full recording and producing, before tackling making music videos and finally releasing the finished album.

It will hopefully be a wonderful experience for all, and we shall learn along the journey together.

What qualifies you to be doing this Making of an Album series? I've never heard of you!

A fine question indeed, and true, that Cosmic Bos is not exactly a well known musical outfit, but in our defence, we have been making music for a long time, with over 20 albums of improvised/revised music available and several other proper albums sprinkled through our past.

Go on then, tell us about Cosmic Bos.

Cosmic Bos came into existence back in 2016, and we released our debut album '7 Billion' in 2017, which has been followed by 3 Seasons of Improvised music podcasting.

Direct link to our podcast

In 2021 Cosmic Bos released 'Virtual Normality' EP, a 5 track proper record, that was designed as the taster for this very Album of a Making podcast project.

So as you can see, we have made a lot of music, which qualifies us to appoint ourselves as qualified to make a podcast about making an album. Ultimately the measure of success of aforementioned project is an actual album existing at the end of it all, which, we confidently think there will be, also, Cosmic Bos is not affiliated with any record labels, so our interest in making an album is legitimately about Making a GOOD album of real music, not a product for lining already overlined pockets.

All music featured in this podcast was made by Cosmic Bos and is available to hear or if you can afford it, buy, at all good online musical stores.

Tracklist for Episode 1

1. Faded Memories
2. Take it Easier (from 'Virtual Normality' EP)
3. Ride Another Wave (from 'Virtual Normality' EP)
4. Where the Warp-zones Are (from '7 Billion')
5. Let's Go Dancing (from 'Ep.14: Utopia in a Cornucopia')
6. Ensemble Story

Both Faded Memories & Ensemble Story come from our upcoming new Improv(squared) album and are both available now.

Here's a Spotify player for convenient listening needs.

Check out the videos for our double A side singles in our podcast feed and on our youtube (or instagram if that's your thang)

We hope you have found this informative and interesting, as the series progresses we will delve into much greater depth on all the in's and out's of album construction, and hopefully we will learn a thing or two on the journey. It's exciting and fills the existential crisis hole that forever questions if we are all just living in a simulation that was literally turned on only twenty minutes ago, and all our memories are merely loaded in code, and our hopes and dreams are just glitches in a system that teeters on collapse under it's own weight at any given moment. Ahem.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.s - can you leave our podcast a review on your preferred podcast consumption device, it really helps us out. Love ya.

Faded Memories - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

 Hello friends,

Ahead of the introduction episode of 'Making of an Album', Cosmic Bos present to you 'Faded Memories'

Faded Memories - Cosmic Bos

Music by Andy and Nick Jackson

Lyrics and Artwork by Dayne Howcroft

This is the A side to the double A side single released 1st Feb 2022, along with its A sided brother 'Ensemble Story'.

The first taster of our upcoming Improv(squared) project, 'Faded Memories' was a poem that Dayne Howcroft gave to Andy Jackson to turn into a song, along with another poem that will appear on the album. Constructed quickly, Andy and Nick recorded the guitars and vocals first, before adding bass and synths (and another cheeky guitar). In a matter of half hour the song was all recorded, then Nick did the producer thing and Bam! Song done.

FADED MEMORIES by Dayne Howcroft

Fourteen years old, the picture was clear
All set for adventure, no need to fear
With total control of the road ahead
The future was never a dream to dread

 

Wasting time on a hot summers day

No wasted laughter, my mind portrayed

A life of freedom, with hope and meaning

That picture gave me, something to believe in

Time slipped slowly, right through my hands

Back then I could never quite understand

How life can be brutal, how life can be cruel

I guess I forgot the golden rule

Never look back and regret what is done

Because life can be beautiful if you're willing to run

...

Here is the youtube link if you prefer you links to be tube based

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos: Bos Live #1 (2021) - Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast Season 4 Ep. 1

 Hello friends,

Happy new season, Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast kicks off Season 4 with a Live Show for you.

Cosmic Bos : Bos Live #1 (2021)

Tracklist: 

1. Take it Easier
2. Sunrise Reflections
   
3. Intentionally
4. Bad Decisions
5. Space Babies
6. Perplexed
7. Rainbow Appearing
8. Ignore the Alarm

All music performed by Joe Philogene (Ngoni & Percussion), Nick Jackson (Electric Guitar & Backing Vocals) and Andy Jackson (Acoustic Guitar & Lead Vocals)

Wowza! Ain't that a whole lotta fun right there. This Live session was recorded back on the 18th of December in the crazy year that was 2021. It was a bit of a rush and a push to try and get it out at the end of the year, so we held back and put it out right now at the start of '22. 

Cosmic Bos performed one gig last year, and we played most of the songs on our live album, and as we had rehearsed up to be all good for our solitary performance, it only seemed sensible to make a recording of our efforts. We are pretty proud of the outcome, what do you recon?

Full visual presentation (which was too big a file to put in the podcast feed) right here for you, served up by the wonderful bots at YouTube.

Coming Soon - Cosmic Bos: Making of an Album Introduction Episode, with some new music and some new business to take care of. Until then though...

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast - Season 4 (2022) Coming Soon!

 Hello dear friends,

2022 is here, and, well, it's something alright. 

I (Andy) like to take the first week of the year to reflect on the highs and lows of the previous, and ponder the things I wish to achieve in the upcoming. I find it very therapeutic and mindful, allowing the inputs that truly matter to me (my family and friends) to guide my thoughts towards realistic achievable goals.

For 2022 I want to do something a bit different. Cosmic Bos have completed 3 full seasons of improv music podcasting, so following the route of the farmers, we shall let the improvisation field have a year off, and instead we shall be focusing on making an album, a normal, what other bands do, album.

We have been planning this for a while, and the album already has a title 'The O Door'.

Last year, Nick and I made an EP, 'Virtual Normality', as a test to see if we could take on the task of an album on our own. It went pretty well, with several of our best songs of '21 being on it, including the sublime 'Ride Another Wave' (the closing track) which is about the night Theo was born.

Ride Another Wave is our Prologue to 'The O Door', which we will be working on across the whole of 2022, with our proposed release date being 1st January 2023. 

What does this mean for Cosmic Bos Improv Music Podcast Season 4? 

Well, it's going to be like a documentary kind of year, with us launching 'Making of an Album', an 8 part Podcast Documentary about how we make an album, charting the whole process from Writing to Recording, Production to Release. It should be a fun ride, with the Introduction episode coming February.

Still from Bos Live #1 (2021)

However, our first release for Season 4 will be Cosmic Bos Live 2021, an 8 track live recording that we did back in December '21.

Then we will launch into our Season long presentation Cosmic Bos: Making of an Album

Which will also nicely dovetail into the other thing we will be doing in 2022. We've opened up the side fields in my farmer metaphor, and started planting a new crop, which we are lovingly calling 'Improv²'

The first tracks from this new improv crop will be along with the first episode of our Making of an Album series, with a full special Improv² episode coming in April.

So as you can see, a big year planned for us at Cosmic Bos.

Thanks for being awesome, we love you

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos (Andy)

Cosmic Bos Best of Season 3 (2021) - 18 songs and some bants

 Hello dear friend,

Welcome to the blog with the most, um, stuff about Cosmic Bos, and in particular, the goings on of Cosmic Bos across the year of 2021. The third year of our improv music shenanigans went to some interesting places, and we have compiled down from the 67 tracks we released this year, the 18 we think are the bestest. 

3 years of podcasting - https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com - so many years to go.

Wowza! What a thing it is.

Cover for Season 3's Best of.

Here is the tracklist...

1. Space Babies (Virtual Normality version)
   
2. Waiting
3. Aim
4. Witching Hour
5. Like Minded
6. Perplexed
7. Bad Decisions
8. Intentionally
9. Feel the World
10. Take it Easier
11. Space Babies (improv version)
12. Rainbow Appearing
13. Hold on a Little Longer
14. Stay Inside
15. Ignore the Alarm
16. Broken by Desire
17. Brand New
18. Ride Another Wave

2021 was an interesting year, with plenty of ups and downs, twists and turns, 4 improvised albums, 1 EP, 1 Revisation session and plenty of music videos. For a band that just do it all ourselves, we are doing okay. The industry doesn't seem interested in us, for good reason, it's hard to market such prolific art. For example, most major record labels would sign an artist for a 5 album deal, which Cosmic Bos would plough through in a year. We do this in our spare time, it's our hobby, albeit an all consuming one, if we were being paid to do it, imagine what our output could be if we did it full time? 

That's the dream that keeps us playing, and one day soon it will be the reality that we are trying to escape from, oh what a wonderful world of contradictions we live in. 

Big shout out to Joe Philogene for being the musical rock on which our improvised flowers have grown, truly one of the greatest human beings to grace this earth, we love you and can't wait to explore the musical realms with you further. 

Cosmic Bos will be here in 2022, but we are going to be doing something slightly different. Check back for an introductory blog later this week.

Here is the YouTube version of the Best of Season 3, should you wish to tube it up over podcasting it up. 

Happy times ahead my friends, we love you all

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

P.S - Here's the youtube playlist of just the songs should you wish to just have music and not Nick and I talking.