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,

Please like, share and subscribe

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.

Please like, share and subscribe

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.

Please like, share and subscribe.

Check us out in all the usual social media holes

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

New Cosmic Bos Artwork for Improv-Revisation podcast purposes (www.iamgecko.com)

 Hey friends,

Check out this amazing artwork done by i.am.gecko (www.iamgecko.com) for our little old improv music podcast

artwork by i.am.gecko

How epic is that?

We think, very, very, very epic, so epic the metaphors itself requires full mountaineering equipment to even attempt to scale.

Please go check out his website, there are some amazing pieces of art there, tell him Bos sent you.

www.iamgecko.com 

Peace and infinite love

Songs from the Songbook part 2 (more videos of songbook songs)

 So friends,

To continue on our adventure in the land of the songbook, I present to you the other 4 songs from the From the Songbook session 2020 in video form, direct from our podcast feed.

I Want

High

Heart Holder

Where's the Time?

All these wonderful songs are available in our podcast feed https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

And they are all featured on Cosmic Bos From the Songbook which is available in all good online record shops where you can download music (there is no physical copy, we don't print things as it is bad for the environment and ultimately a waste of resources.

Coming next month we will be returning to our Improv-Revisation podcasting with Ep.15: Astral Swimming, featuring the amazing talent that is Joe Philogene. It's shaping up nicely, with 11 deep introspective musings on the nature of existence, it's a bit different from our last dancy one, but it's good different, hopefully you will like it.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Songs from the Songbook (Cosmic Bos video presentation)

 Hello friends,

It's pretty hot this weekend, at least where I am it is, too hot to write long waffly blogs about silly nonsense, so I shall dispense with the usual waffle based blogitudes and move straight onto the main point of this here blog.

Cosmic Bos From the Songbook

Video presentation part 1

Love Defined

Spontaneous Plan

In Between

Two Little Stars

I hope you enjoyed all these lovely acoustic videos, there are 4 more to come, but that's for another blog in a couple of weeks. Stay cool my friends, love you

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Let's Go Dancing - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

Hello friends,

Get your dancing shoes on, let's go dancing!


Let's Go Dancing - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)
Taken from Improv-Revisation Ep.14: Utopia in a Cornucopia

Music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson & Bob Duffield
Revised and Mastered by Chris Mace & Nick Jackson
Video by Nick Jackson, Andrea Jackson, Abi Jackson & Andy Jackson

Our Monty Python style animated video tells the story of getting your dancing shoes on (baby) and going out dancing, something we still technically aren't allowed to do, but at the time of recording the song it was still perfectly socially acceptable. As you can tell, we remained socially distanced to make the video, no virus was spread during the process.

This song is from Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation podcast, it's a podcast we make, like a radio show from another dimension. We improvise all the music in a single days session, take it away, revise it a bit, get rid of the rubbish bits, tweak up and brush down, then release as an album and as a podcast.
It's fun, you should check it out, there's lots of it now too, this was from our 14th session, which had special guest Bob Duffield.
https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

Please like, share and subscribe 

We love you

Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos - From the Songbook

Hello friends,

So for August we have gone with an acoustic presentation of songs from our songbooks. We here at Cosmic Bos have been working hard all year to polish up the improvisations, so to give ourselves a little break, we have recording these 8 songs that were written ages ago.

From the Songbook - Cosmic Bos

Music by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson

Tracklist:

1. I Want
2. Heart Holder
3. In Between
4. Spontaneous Plan
5. Love Defined
6. Two Little Stars
7. Where's the Time?
8. High

These songs were recorded over two sessions, one was right before lockdown, the other was once restrictions lifted. This was originally intended to be our midyear placeholder because Macey was due to be working Glastonbury festival, but alas that didn't happen, so Songbook became our August break instead.

Here is a video from the recording of Love Defined.

We have several videos to go with this episode, they are all the same as the one above, but, you know, content is content. We will release them over the coming few weeks.

After that however, we have Ep.15 - currently untitled (that's not the title, it really is currently title-less), which has the wonderful Joseph Philogene returning (first appeared on episode 7: On Yarway). 

Thanks for being alive, we love you

Please like, share and subscribe, all the things that people do now

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Get Up to Get Down - Cosmic Bos (Official Toy Music Video)

Hello friends,

So, Utopia in a Cornucopia has been out a few weeks, what do you recon? Any good?

Here is the 2nd single 'Get Up to Get Down' with a video from our toy universe (that's right, we've declared it a universe now, a tiny universe with a handful of characters)

In this video, Maja (the tiny Swedish woman with perfect hair) is trying to entertain Emit. She decides to make some TV shows with him, and Jimmy & Bimmy are along for the ride (as always). Plus several special guest Steves appear throughout. Oh so much fun was had, pointless? Probably.

Direct from our podcast feed, to your eyes and ears (and noses if you possess the rare ability to interpret music through smell), this funky little number struts it's stuff all over the table.

Here is the youtube link should the above one take ages to load (for some reason it does for me)


Thanks for being human, we need you guys

Peace and infinite cookies
Cosmic Bos

Improv-Revisation Ep.14: Utopia in a Cornucopia

Sofa ends,

We are here, in July 2020! The second half of, what so far, has been the weirdest year on record, in our humble opinion at least. To cope with the chaos, we here at Cosmic Bos have just continued to make our little improv music and comedy podcast, and we have managed to stick to our self imposed release schedule.

Aren't we amazing? (You don't have to answer that)

So without further adoing, we present Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation podcast, Ep.14: Utopia in a Cornucopia (ft. Bob Duffield)

Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation

Ep.14: Utopia in a Cornucopia

Track Listing:

1. Who Invited You?
2. Get Up to Get Down
3. Let's Go Dancing
4. Prepare for Takeoff
5. Einstein on my Mind
6. Fabricated
7. Hot Diggity Dog
8. One Hearty Party
9. Ecstacy
10. Emotion Closure

All music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson and Bob Duffield

Revised and Mastered by Chris Mace and Nick Jackson

For our summer album we have a Meaty and Beaty one for you, featuring the awesome skills of Bob 'Quell' Duffield.

Jeffrey, Jethro and Nick work as a team to help map out the perfect Utopia for humanity (and Monkey-kind too), please like, share and subscribe.

Email us at cosmicbos@gmail.com

Our Direct Podcast Website

Wow, amazing right? (again, no answer required)

There is a super cool stop motion lego animated video for the opening song, found in our podcast feed for you to keep forever, or alternatively, it's on YouTube too.


We have a couple more video ideas rolling around at the moment, so hopefully there will be a couple more visual treats for you as the month progresses.

Have a wonderful July, and let's hope the only way is up through the last half of 2020.
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Who Invited You? - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

So friends,

We here at Cosmic Bos invite you to our new video 'Who Invited You?'

 Who Invited You?
From Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation
Ep.14: Utopia in a Cornucopia

Music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson & Bob Duffield
Revised and Mastered by Chris Mace & Nick Jackson
Video animated by Nick Jackson

Download the song on all good music platforms (and some bad ones)

Amazing right? Stop motion Lego animation is no small task, and Nick Jackson took the lockdown time to new limits by knocking out this awesome music video on his own. Raising the bar once more for our little improv music and video project, we are really proud of this one. What do you recon?

So obviously, we make a podcast, you might have heard of them, they are all over the internet.
Check out our podcast where all the improvised musical wonders exist in some kind of harmony Our Direct Podcast Feed
Here is the same lego video as above embedded from our podcast website (the one linked above)

Thanks for all the love
More love right back at ya
Cosmic Bos

Cover for our next episode, no. 14

Tuned In - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

So friends,

With lockdown now lifted (pretty much), we can venture out into the world again for as much exercise as our legs can handle. We can also meet up with each other in a socially distanced way, how novel and exciting!

We here at Cosmic Bos wanted to reflect some of the feeling of now in our musical output, and we chose to do it visually, as the music we had was already improvised back in October 2019 (Pre-Covid). So without further waffling from me, here is 'Tuned In' - from Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.13: Cosmeta Bosette Returns

'Tuned In' is the concluding part of the 'Straight Outta Lockdown' trilogy.
Having Words With Nature is part 1, and Overreacting is part 2, just in case you were interested

Please like, share and subscribe to our stuff, we keep making it regardless, but the likes do help, at least a little (and a share is like a kiss from an angel).

Thanks for the continued support, we love you very much

Here is the youtube version in case the podcast link above is being all slow and irritating.


Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Overreacting - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

Sofariends,

After the ordeal the spirit of the forest was put through in our last outing, Cosmic Bos present to you 'Overreacting' - a song about reacting in an over type fashion.

Overreacting - Cosmic Bos from Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation podcast Ep.13: Cosmeta Bosette Returns Music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson, Paul Bradley & Charlie Gibbs Revised and mastered by Chris Mace & Nick Jackson Video starring Andy Jackson https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com https://open.spotify.com/track/3TGa0K... - Song on Spotify

A Disclaimer came with this video because we didn't want to offend anyone, but just so we are crystal clear on this, please stop overreacting to stuff, it's not a good look on you, calm down and remember that countless humans before us managed to live with shit literally running down their walls, now granted, lots of them died from horrible diseases, but the lesson here is, don't live in a place where shit is literally running down the walls, and if that is happening, please get it cleaned up as soon as possible, and stop drinking all the sanitiser gel.

Here be a youtube link to the video, just in case the one above is taking a billion years to load (not literally a billion of course, no point waiting that long to watch something)

Thanks for being an amazing human being, keep up the being awesome.

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Fight the Fire - Anya Louisa (Official Music Video)

So friends,

Check this out! The Debut single by Anya Louisa - 'Fight the Fire' is out right now, available in all good music locations. Here is the Spotify link if that's your kinda thing.

We here at Cosmic Bos made this video with her for the song, and we think it came out pretty well, really well in fact, we are very proud of it. Anya has stardom written all over her many coloured incarnations, and it was an honour to help visualise this powerfully emotive song. A fantastic debut indeed, and the start of something epic. 5 Stars (each a different colour) out of 5

Please like, share and subscribe to Anya Louisa on YouTube here

And always fight the fire

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.13: Cosmeta Bosette Returns

So friends, oh beautiful friends,

Episode 13 is here, and I'm pleased to report that it's a good one (if it was a bad one I would refrain from reporting rather then lying to your face)


Tracklist:

1. Having Words With Nature
2. Overreacting
3. Wax
4. Tentoongesteld
5. Tuned In
6. No Blue Blues
7. The Top One
8. Key of Brie

All music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson, Paul Bradley and Charlie Gibbs.

Mixed and mastered by Chris Mace and Nick Jackson

So with social distancing measures in place, the CosBos team return to sort of normal schedule programming.

Jethro, Jeffrey and Nick share some stories from their respective lockdowns, as well as chew the fat of some of the shows they've watched during the great forced Netflix times. Punctuated with 8 sparkly new improv songs from the full Meta Cassette line-up, for their return to the Bos lands (with their previous outing being Ep.8)

It's a hoot and a holler I tells ya.

Please like, share, subscribe, hug a tree and be alive

https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

Here is the video we made for Having Words With Nature, it's pretty awesome if we do write so ourselves.

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Having Words With Nature - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

So friends,

Lockdown, fun isn't it?
No, no it isn't.
Especially not for Nature, she is finding it a right pain in the roots.

So there you have it, our little interpretation of the current situation with nature in music/visual form.

Video starring Andrea Jackson as the Spirit of the Forest, and Nick Jackson as the Rubber Gloved Guard. The song is taken from our 13th Improv album which is available in all good book stores.

We here at Cosmic Bos take nature very seriously, it's secretly in our very name ('Bos' means Forest in Dutch), and when we are deep in our improv space plucking musical nuggets from the ethereal trees, Nature is always there guiding us, it's in our very blood and bones, it stimulates our senses and gives us context to understand the most sacred thing we all hold dear, life.

Having Words With Nature was a set of lyrics that Andy provided for the improv session. Here they are in full for your reading pleasure.

Ive been having words with nature again
She's fine, but half the time, she pretends
Our actions aren't that easy to defend
Screaming meanings hardly justifies the ends

She Provides us, she protects us
For some reason, she still accepts us
So let's all show some respect
We've got to give before we get

I've been having words with nature once more
She's fine, but half the time, she's feeling like our whore
Shouts the safe words while we pin her to the floor
And strip her for resources, a casualty of human forces

She provides us, she protects us
For some reason, she still accepts us
So let's all show some respect
We've got to give before we get

I've been having words with nature today
She's fine, but that's a lie, she wants the pain to go away
The constant torture, isn't fun in any way
She wants just to be the wonder where we play

CHORUS

Just in case the podcast link above hasn't worked for you, here is the youtube version.

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

All Weather Umbrella - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

So friends,

During lockdown it's hard to come up with music videos, but we somehow still do.

Cosmic Bos present to you All Weather Umbrella, a creative video project with a green screened umbrella, yep.


Also on YouTube and other places


So grab a green umbrella, set your Spotify to All Weather Umbrella and get creative.

The song is from Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.12: Ash, Stax & Charlie
Spotify Album link

We put out all our improv(revised) stuff as a podcast, complete with improv comedy nonsense linking the songs, it's like a radio show from another dimension
Direct podcast link

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Magic Umbrella

Making it Up as We Go Along Part 7 (Final part) - Season 2 so far

So friends,

We have reached the final instalment of our documentary about ourselves, here it is:


Making It Up As We Go Along - A Cosmic Bos Documentary

This has been a labour of love the whole way, as you can no doubt tell from the video, we have enjoyed it immensely, it's silly and fun, and we are excited to continue, there is still much deeper to go on this journey and we hope that you join us, no matter how far it goes (it will probably only get sillier rather then darker, we tend to prefer the weird to the macabre)

Well, as far as the future is concerned as of now:

We are busy squirrelling away on the next episode, Ep.13: Cosmeta Bosette Returns, which features the return of the Meta Cassette line up to the Bos lands (after Episode 8: Cosmeta Bosette - from way back in 2019, ahh memories), we have already honeyed in on the singles, and a pair of exciting video's are currently working their way down the cosmic pipeline.

Oh yeah, and we have one final video to go with Ep.12, for the song 'All Weather Umbrella', which we will likely drop next week, coz, you know, that's how we roll.

Thanks for being amazing,

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Flashes - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

Happy daze dear friends,

Oh what a spin out it is, or it isn't, I don't have the faintest idea, I am but a humble improv musician with a podcast under my arm and a tune in my heart, adventuring out to the kitchen for much needed sustenance in these troubling times, oh, for one could never survive without snacks, this lockdown be built on snacks.

Anyway, introduction got away from me there, back to proceedings.

I present to you our latest video offering ; Flashes


The song 'Flashes' is from Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation Ep.12: Ash, Stax & Charlie
Hear the whole episode on our website (or you can scroll down this blog, it's here somewhere)
https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

The video was possibly our laziest offering to date, as it was quite simply a locked off shot of an mp3 speaker that we did some editing trickery to, which reminds me, the video was directed by Andy Jackson, edited by Nick Jackson and filmed on location at Castle Stax, home of our special guest on Ep.12 - Mr. Donny Stax (Check him out, he's a certified legend, I've seen the Certificate!)

The song Flashes is really a work of piano genius from the legend Ashley Carter, with some splashing vocals and guitars fleshing it out, fleshing out them flashes.

I hope you have enjoyed your time here with this blog, it is a work of passion rather then a work of work, we here at Cosmic Bos make no money for our musical output, currently, but it does seem possible in this ever changing landscape that the time of the improv music is coming, and our particular brand of home made musical leanings might find a bigger audience. Here's to that future, and being rich in all the ways that matter, stay safe and beautiful

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

P.S - Here's a playlist of all of previous videos (and future videos as it will update as life goes on, so depending on when you a reading this, it will be a different song, I propose a game, just to make the blog a bit more interactive' - post a comment saying what song is on the front of this here playlist, when you have visited this blog. This will be interesting, see if anyone from the future reads this.)

Cosmic Dosh! - Send us all your money :D (and part 6 of the documentary)

Hellooooo, Jethro here.

I've taken over Andy's blog for the time being, since he's busy doing music things and I am just sitting around eating all the honey, and currently that's not a problem, because bees count as key workers right? I'm sure they do, Key Bee Workers around the world are still busy making that sweet sweet honey. Hooray.

So anyway, I'm actually meant to be introducing the GoFundMe page that I've set up so you can send me all your money. And here it is!

Cosmic Bos GO FUND ME link

It said I could embed it, but it didn't work, so you'll have to just click the link I'm afraid. Sorry about that, it's hard to work all this modern human technology with my small monkey hands, so you'll have to forgive me.

Anyway, all your money can be sent to me finally, just as you've always wanted to do. I promise it will be spent wisely, I know a thing or two about spending money, I've been doing it for years, years and years, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that I have managed to spend ALL the money that I have had, I've even managed to spend some other monkeys money. Now let me show you how good I can be at spending your money.

Right, well with all that monkey business out the way, time to move on to the special presentation of this blog, the real reason you might be here, here for the pleasure of your eyes and ears (and any other sense that responds to documentary footage of a bunch of idiots), I present to you Cosmic Bos Making it Up as We Go Along Part 6: Recording the Podcast.

So yep, it's a podcast, starring ME (Jethro) and to a lesser extent Jeffrey and Nick. Except the last episode, episode 12, that was hosted by Treeman, it was a Treeman takeover, because of these lockdown times. we were not able to get together and record our classic banter about nothing in particular. Hopefully this Corona business will conclude soon and we can get back to doing it together again, but until then, we will make do won't we? What else can we do?
Oh yeah, send us all your money, that's what you could do... I'll just leave that honey link here again, just in case you missed it above...

SEND ALL YOUR MONEY HERE

Thanks for your eyes, love you
Bye!
Jethro

P.S - Here's Passe Patterns for you, direct from the podcast feed. Hooray!

Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.12 : Ash, Stax & Charlie

TREEMAN TAKEOVER!!!!!

Yeah friends, it's here, the 12th improv(revised) musical outing of the Cosmic Bos chaps, with special  guests Ashley Carter, Donny Stax & Charlie Gibbs.

And here it is, right here! Have a listen.


Find it on your favourite podcast place, iTunes, Spotify etc.

Tracklist:

1. Elevate a Little
2. Passe Patterns
3. Be What I Wanna Be
4. Universal Translator
5. Flashes
6. Turning Tricks
7. Get Your Coat
8. All Weather Umbrella
9. Knights of a Memoir
10. Zen Levels of Chill

All music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson, with special guests Ashley Carter, Donny Stax and Charlie Gibbs

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

So with the Cosmic Bos team all in lockdown an' that, it's been up to Treeeeeeeman to step in and provide the links for the songs an' that. It's all up in the branches where 10 improv songs will take your ears by surprise, and maybe nibble your ears like a squirrel.

Please like, share, subscribe, all that good stuff

email us at cosmicbos@gmail.com

Find the album on Spotify, just search for it, tell them Treeman sent you.

We made a video for Passe Patterns, it's here if you haven't seen it yet

Thanks for listening, happy lockdown everyone

Peace and love
Cosmic Bos

Making it Up as We Go Along Part 5*.} Making of a Music Video

TREEMAN TAKEOVER!!!


So yeah, that's like, totally part 5 of the documentary and that, Treeman nailed it!

Coming soon, part 6.

Thanks for watching

Cosmic Bos x

P.S - Check out our podcast, it's nuts, tree nuts

Passé Patterns - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

So friends,

We here at Cosmic Bos are proud to present our new single 'Passé Patterns' from our upcoming next album/podcast - Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation Ep.12: Ash, Stax & Charlie


Wowmazing!

We had to make this video from our respective lockdown locations, with Nick taking editing duty, awesome work Nick.

The cover of Episode 12

There's something a little creepy about this song, since it was recorded back in October of 2019, it feels very relevant to our current global lockdown situation. Did Cosmic Bos know that this was going to happen? Did they predict things?

Well, no, of course not, but it's a bit spooky, a spooky coincidence, a spookcidence if you will coin a new phrase with me for no raisin.

The episode will be with you on the 1st of May, it's a little different to our usual thing, there are still 10 new improv songs for your ears, which is very much our usual thing, but Jethro, Jeffrey and Nick couldn't get together to do their usual recordings, so Treeman stepped into the hot seat.

Thanks for being awesome, we love you, stay safe and listen to music, it's the best.

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Online Busking 5 - Cosmic Bos Acoustic Live

Sofriends,

Here is the fifth instalment in the Cosmic Bos Acoustic Live Lockdown show thing


Tracklist:

1. The Maja Saga pt.1 - Escape Plan
2. Imaginary Friends
3. Take it Easier
4. Wish You Were Here (by Pink Floyd)
5. Hug
6. Do It With You
7. She Belongs to Me (by Bob Dylan)
8. Equality
9. Count Your Blessings
10. Close to Me (by Ellie Golding)

Did you enjoy that one? I hope so

Please browse around, click on anything you like the look of (from our content I mean, not the adverts, although, if something in the adverts does catch your attention then feel free to click, I'm not judging you, I am incapable of judge)

Peace and infinite love
Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Making it Up as We Go Along Part 4 >> A Cosmic Bos Documentary

So friends,

Here is part 4 of our documentary we made about ourselves.


I hope you enjoyed that, it was lots of fun making it.

Coming next week - Part 5 (obviously, it is the next sequential number after all)

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Online Busking Day 4 - Cosmic Bos Acoustic Live Monday

Hello friends,

So the final instalment of the Easter Weekend Cosmic Bos Acoustic Live with Jethro, and to a lesser extent, Andy comes to a close with this cheeky set of songs.


Tracklist:

1. I Want
2. Focus
3. In-Between
4. No Worries
5. Can't Take My Eyes off You (by Frankie Valli)
6. Separately
7. Salt
8. Zen Levels of Chill
9. Fake Plastic Trees (by Radiohead)
10. Price Tag (reworked)(original by Jessie J)

Doing the live thing was lots of fun, reminded me of my busking days (which feels a long time ago now).

While Covid19 pandemic is petitioning to be crowned Winner of 2020 (it doesn't get my vote), it is important to spend time with your creativity, everyone is full of creativity, and unfortunately time and tarmac chip away at our creative spirit and mould us into highly effective human machines, but don't panic, that creativity is still in there.

Spend just a short while with a child and you will see the creative spirit alive and well within us all, one persons blanket is another persons tent of operations from which to launch the great pepper-pot heist, so I figure, once mom has left the kitchen, I'll rush to the bathroom and cause a distraction, at which point Jimmy & Bimmy will sneak into the kitchen and hide, then you... well, yeah, you get the point I'm sure.

Thanks for watching.

Peace and infinite love
Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Online Busking 3 - Easter Sunday Special

So friends,

Jethro, and to a lesser extent, Andy, continued the Cosmic Bos Acoustic Easter Weekend Eggstravaganzzzza, following on part 2 with, well, part 3. And here it is.


Track Listing:

1. Quite Likely
2. Given Half a Dance
3. Then They Did
4. Los Ageless (by St. Vincent)
5. Backbone
6. Apeman (by The Kinks)
7. Concrete Skyline
8. Mr. Gnome
9. Saturday Night (by Devendra Banhart)
10. If You Asked Me Too
11. Hang on to the Sunshine 

Okay, so 11 isn't, well, it just isn't.

There were a few technical difficulties (not coronavirus related) and the live stream was interrupted before Andy could launch into Hang on to the Sunshine, which obviously meant the whole thing was over...but no, it was far from over, well, not that far from over, it was still nearly over, but it wasn't completely over, if you get what I mean.

I think I may have over complicated that bit, I will go back and delete it later, except, if I do that then this bit won't make any sense, and if you lose the audience you lose the battle of being a bedroom blog writer, I may as well just hang up my laptop and think long and hard about what I am doing with my life. What the hell am I doing?

No, be strong, don't give in to the delete key, this has to be read by the twenty people that visit your blog every now and then, they need to see this, to gain a valuable insight into the overblown claim that this blog is somehow adventuring through creativity, which, let's face it, it really isn't, it's just about these three dudes that make an improvised podcast, I mean, what the fork is that all about?

Well, since you asked, It's a podcast, of improvised (and revised) music, with some stupid chatter about nonsense in-between, it's alright, it has it's moments at least, probably worth checking out if you happen to have several days of crushing boredom in front of you. It's on iTunes and Spotify and all that.

Right, now, what was I doing?

Of yeah

So here is part 2 of part 3.


In this segment Andy managed to knock out three more tunes before finally ending.

Tracklisting of part 2

1. Hang on to the Sunshine
2. Nobody Does it Better (by Carly Simon)
3. One Day Like This (by Elbow)

Thanks for your eyes and ears

Peace and infinite love
Andy (Cosmic Bos)

The Maja Saga pt. 3 - Captured, Again? (Official Toy Music Video)

Oh no!

Emit has managed to capture Maja...Again?!

Good work Jimmy and Bimmy, as useful as ever.

The Maja Saga part 3: Captured, Again?
Taken from Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation podcast Episode 11: Betting the Bottom Dollar
Music improvised, revised and mastered by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson
Video made by Abi, Andrea, Nick and Andy Jackson (it's a Jacksonfest)
Here is the Spotify album link

Well there you have it, the exciting conclusion to the epic Maja Saga. Thanks for coming on this exciting toy based journey with us, it has been a blast. Now that it's all done and dusted with I will probably do a special blog presentation of the whole Saga (The Maja bit of it, not all the season 1 Tiny Spaceman stuff), just to flesh out some of the ideas for you. I promise that it will eventually all make sense, we have purposefully kept big chunks of the story a secret, but more will be revealed in the upcoming months I'm sure.

We will take a little break from the toy universe so we can focus on the next episode of the podcast, Episode 12: Ash, Stax and Charlie - featuring the triple threat of Ashley Carter, Donny Stax and Charlie Gibbs (hence the episode title). Obviously the Covid Lockdown 2020 is preventing us from performing our usual video making duties, but being the ever resourceful Alison Brie lovers that we are, we will find a way to keep churning out the content like we're key worker butter churners (is that still a profession? or is it all done by robots now? Answers on a postcard please).

Okay, that's enough blog for one day, now onto the next thing

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos x

Online Busking 2 - Cosmic Bos Acoustic Easter Saturday 2020 Lockdown special

So friends,

Still in lockdown, still strumming away to myself, although this time with a camera and Jethro.

Here is part 2 of the Cosmic Bos Acoustic Easter Weekend Eggstravaganza

Your full tracklist for proceedings is as follows:

1. Where's the Time?
2. Nap
3. Lucky Lampshade
4. All I Want To Do Is Rock (by Travis)
5. Hanging Around
6. Ballad of John & Yoko (by The Beatles)
7. Another Email
8. Unbelievably Attractive
9. Not a Job (by Elbow)
10. Existential Blip
11. One Day, We Will
12. Closer (by Travis)
13. Songs of Love (by Divine Comedy)

There you go, another hour of online busking treats for you. 

Happy Easter

Andy (Cosmic Bos)

Making it Up as We Go Along part 3 > A Cosmic Bos Documentary

So friends,

Back once again, with some more documentary action, here is part 3 for you

What a ride, and we have a winner!

We hope you are enjoying this self indulgent dive into our music making process, it has been lots of fun to make and we really hope that by getting to see how we do what we do, you can get something more out of what we do.

So without further ado, we wish you a happy day, oh they are great aren't they? Them days when you are happy and not crushed under the weight of existence, let's have more of them please.

Part 4 coming next weekend, but before that we have The Maja Saga part 3: Captured, Again? (which we are planning to release tomorrow I believe), as well as more of the Cosmic Bos Acoustic Easter Weekend eggstraviganza (It's a 4 day event) - with day 2 already done and a blog to follow (probably tomorrow now, because, you know, I'm tired and stuff now, been busy sitting around playing guitar and getting too hot)

Check out our podcast on iTunes and Spotify

You are an inspiration to the cause, keep it up xxx

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos

Online Busking - Cosmic Bos Acoustic Good Friday Live Stream

Hello friends,

It's Friday, and it is good, even though we are all still in lockdown and are forbidden from going about our usual good Friday business, it's still good.

Well, this is the first of a 4 day live streaming Easter Weekend extravaganza that Cosmic Bos are putting on for all you wonderful people out there in your respective homes.

Part 1: Online Busking - Good Friday


There you have it, a stream of acoustic fun
The full acoustic set list that Andy performed is:

1. New Roman Times
2. You Can Call Me Al (by Paul Simon)
3. We Are the Workers
4. Everything is Okay
5. Chance Encounters on the Stairs
6. Love Defined
7. Pocket Sized Stage
8. High and Dry (by Radiohead)
9. Old Private Familiar
10. Out the Back Smoking
11. All You Need is Love (by The Beatles)
12. Stump the Fee!
13. Space Oddity (by David Bowie)

There you have it, a good Fridays set full.

Here as well, should you want to see it, is the live test that we did, to, you know, test it out.

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos x

Making it Up as We Go Along part 2 - A Cosmic Bos Documentary

So friends,

Part 2 of our documentary about ourselves is up, it's here in fact, right underneath these very words.

Well that was fun wasn't it?
Ahh the heady days of 2019, when we could sit on each others sofas and sneeze into our own hands, what times we had.

Part 3 coming this weekend, it's the battle of the songs, with the 3 Bos boys putting their mixed tracks into a battle Royale with cheese (Alison Brie) kinda situation. What an Easter weekend treat! Who will win?

If you really can't wait to find out the answer to this reverting question, check out this youtube playlist of all of our music videos. It contains the answers you seek.
 So with lockdown in full effect, we soldier on separately, constructing the next episode of our podcast (Episode 12: Ash, Stax and Charlie ft. Ashley Carter, Donny Stax and Charlie Gibbs). Still on track for it's May 1st release, with some isolation based videos to go along with it. We have been debating the singles, and Mr. Stax has been consulted regarding self filming, so it looks like no lockdown will shut down the Bos train, next stop, embracing the social spacing.

Please subscribe to our stuff, we appreciate the support, and you can always rely on our nonsense to be here every month, come rain or virus (we've already recorded the rest of the years improv sessions so no amount of apocalypse can stop the Bos train to Musicville). We are on all the socials and our podcast and music can be found on iTunes and Spotify etc. Check it out - search for Cosmic Bos, tell them Bob sent you (he's your Uncle).

Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos x