Episode 4 : Pass-portal Control - Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation podcast

So here we are,


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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Cosmic Bos

See you next month for something a little different