So 'Brand New' is the final old film presentation from our album The COVID 1920's, and hopefully you will get a kick out of it. The song is beautifully sung by Nick, and it is the final song on our yearly slate, ending the album.
The cartoon from 100 years ago happens to be an interesting blueprint for Tom and Jerry, and later Itchy and Scratchy, fascinating stuff indeed.
As the year is nearing its close, we have one final Words of Wisdom presentation to come, and then we will end the year with our Best of Season 3. Thank you for all your support this year, it has been a wild ride in the improvised musical podcast land, and we will be making some changes to the formula for our 4th season.
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Cosmic Bos have been busy tying up the lose ends of the year, and what a year it has been. We have released 1 Improv-revised album, 4 fully improvised albums and a 5 track proper EP. It's been a hoot an a holler that's for sure.
We are deep in the planning stages for 2022, and we have some stone cold zinger ideas lined up we can tell ya.
Season 3 has come to a close as far as new material goes.
Our final album of the year 2021 was Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's, and it can be listened to right here right now :D
We made some video's to go along with it, and they have been featured on our youtube page and such, but have remained unblogged until now. So I present to you, some of the videos from The COVID 1920's
HIGHER FREQUENCY
BROKEN BY DESIRE
THINKING SOLUTIONS
Wow! That's a lot of video action right there, I bet your eyes are well tired now and would probably like to take a well earned break, but if they could just bare with for a paragraph or two more, I would be most grateful.
There is one more video to come from The COVID 1920's, and that is for the albums final track 'Brand New', and it continues the theme of 100 year old footage, it will be with you next weekend.
Then we will be dropping our best of season 3 around the 18th of December, and boy oh boy is it a long one this year. Nick and Andy have already recorded it and 2021 sure had some times in it.
Thank you for your time, more coming down the line soon, as always
The end of the year is near, and 2021 has been one hell of a one indeed.
To end our musical adventure for season 3 of our podcast, we present to you Cosmic Bos Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's
Cosmic Bos
Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's
Tracklist:
The Eleventh Hour
Ignore the Alarm
Ay Kalimba
Higher Frequency
Empowerment
Broken by Desire
Signs of Repetition
Make this Right
Thinking Solutions
Words of Wisdom 9: Medicine Women (ft. Shonagh Home)
Wordless Wisdom
Brand New
All music improvised by Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson.
Mixed and Mastered by Andy Jackson
Our final improvised presentation for you in 2021 is our 4th fully improvised (not revised) session, recorded on 21st August 2021.
With pre-written lyrics aplenty, the Cosmic Bos chaps tackle some weighty subjects, ranging from Power struggles to Human evolution, Medicine and History, with a healthy sprinkling of suggestions on how to maybe make things right rather then taking this hand basket all the way to hell.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to our musical explorations, it has been an amazing music adventure in 2021 for us at Cosmic Bos and we are truly excited to explore even further in 22. But that's the future, and we are here now, so enjoy this moment.
There are a few videos still to come from our COVID 1920's exploration, with Broken by Desire, Thinking Solutions and Brand New all having vids we've made. Here is Higher Frequency featuring footage from Mark of Zorro from 1920.
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
P.S - We are planning to do our Best of Season 3 in December this year rather than hanging it over to next year, so we can start fresh with an exciting new thing we have in our bag of tricks.
November has swept in and prepares us for the seasonal shifts that do strange things to our minds.
Alarm bells be ringing, but no one seems to be listening.
Ignore the Alarm - Cosmic Bos
Taken from Improvisation 4: The COVID 1920's
The next in our fully improvised album series is the 4th outing for Joe, Nick and Andy, serving up 12 improv pieces, one of which is a Words of Wisdom about Medicine Women (Shonagh Moon), and one of course is the above 'Ignore the Alarm'.
Video featuring Buster Keaton in an amazing performance in a film called 'Neighbours'.
The album will be on all good platforms on the 20th of November. There will also be a couple more video releases before then, with the next single 'Brand New' all lined up ready for next week.
We are excited to present this record to you, it's a bit different from the previous 3 improvised albums, certainly has a flavour all its own, but such is the nature of improvisation, it's like a box of chocolates, you never know which movie reference you're gonna get.
Thanks for being awesome, we love you here at Cosmic Bos.
Have a wonderful day
Cosmic Bos
Here is the YouTube link to the video should the podcast link above have let you down, or you just prefer to support the big tube in the sky.
So we made another music video, to go with our EP 'Virtual Normality' (which you can listen to in all good bookstores with wifi), this time to the song 'Take it Easier' (track 2 on the aforementioned EP), once again enlisting the A-List talents of Baby Theo, and this time persuading him to be all the musicians, and the singer, and the producer, basically do all our jobs for us. And, he did a wonderful jobs.
On the 18th of October, Baby Theo turned One Years old! and he is already writing and producing his own music, quite an achievement. But, this baby has been making music from before he was even born, with his heartbeat appearing on 'Ride Another Wave' from the Cosmic Bos EP 'Virtual Normality' (still available in all good coffee houses with wifi).
Utter legend that Theo, love him to bits.
This EP has been a fun adventure for Nick and myself (Andy), and we are very pleased with the result.
We are looking to take this one stage further next year with a full album of loveliness.
Big thanks to New Music Saturday for spinning every track from our EP, concluding with 'Take it Easier' on Saturday 23rd October. They have been so supportive over the last few years and we are eternally grateful to them. Also big shout out to Texmex Shaman for his excellent guitar work on Stay Inside.
Thanks for coming on this journey with us, we have some exciting stuff in store for the last couple of months of the year, so stay tuned.
As has been customary during our time as podcasters, we here at Cosmic Bos have aimed to do something special presentationey every year of our show. In year 1 we did From the Vault which was a collection of music from Cosmic Bos's hard drives, in year 2 we did From the Songbook, a collection of songs we had written and then recorded live in Nick's living room, so for year 3 we have made an EP of 5 proper recordings for you. Cosmic Bos present, Virtual Normality...
For this special presentation, Nick and Andy sit down to discuss their EP, Virtual Normality, which they recorded over the summer of 2021 with the intention of it being their summer presentation. As is customary for Bos, it got a little delayed and finally came out on the 1st October. Not a problem though, it's not like they work to deadline or anything.
Back Cover Art also by Gecko
So the 5 songs of Virtual Normality all have a story around them, and this podcast explores them, as well as containing a Tea Review, discussion on what the rest of the year has in store for Cosmic Bos (hint, it's quite a bit), chatter about our upcoming gig on November 13th at the Brunswick in Hove, shout outs for New Music Saturday with Dr. Bones and Mike5, and extra special shoutouts to Texmex Shaman for providing the slick guitar work on Stay Inside.
Also, massive shout out to Gecko for the cover and back cover, he is an awesome artist and you should check him out, search iamgecko and marvel at the wondrous, the spectacular, the unbelievable art that he does.
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Here is the YouTube version of Space Babies video
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
PS. Here's the record on it's own without Nick and Andy waffling between the tunes
Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality EP Cover art by iamgecko
Space Babies (Virtual Normality version)
The opening track on Cosmic Bos's new EP Virtual Normality
This song began life as an improvisation from our 3rd improv album of this year 'Summadelica', with a video idea in place while we were shooting the video for Space Babies improv version.
With the addition of the 1950's B Movie style intro, and the trimming of some of the music to fit it neatly into 4 minutes, Space Babies explores the concepts of life before life begins, were we all just Space Babies floating about before we came here to be Earth Babies? We like to think the answer is yes, and Baby Theo is attempting to return to that space, in some sense.
So come, marvel at the spectacular, the wondrous, the unbelievable... Babies...In....SPAAAACE!!!!!!
Here's the Youtube version
We have made a few TikTok promo's for the EP, focusing specifically on this song (to begin with, there are other songs prepped for later)
and...
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
Baby Theo recognises a UFO when he sees one.
P.S - here is the Spotify embed of the whole Virtual Normality EP, just if you wanted to listen and follow and share etc.
So we have been squirrelling away on an EP for the past few months, it started life as just a couple of singles we wanted to put out, but it evolved into the 5 track Virtual Normality that will be available to listen to on the 1st October 2021 (of course, it wouldn't be 2022 would it! that would be too far away to be announcing now).
Virtual Normality Cover by Gecko
The amazing cover was done by Gecko, check him out, he does awesome artwork for a variety of clientele, find him on instagram @i.am.gecko
There are 5 tracks on it, opening with our reimagined version of Space Babies from our recent improvised sessions (complete with a new video coming with the EP), Take it Easier, It's Always You, Stay Inside (ft. Texmex Shaman), and finally Ride Another Wave.
Stay Inside was spun exclusively on New Music Saturday, you can hear it right here
We are really excited to share this with you, and it's been a long time since we recorded a proper record that wasn't in some way improvised. All these songs were written with pen and paper (and guitar obviously) and we hope they show you what we are capable of if given the time to make music.
We already have our next improvisation album recorded, it requires mixing and wisdoming, and that will be with you at the start of November, but for now it's time to get excited about Virtual Normality, take it away toys!
Greta Thunberg was 16 when she gave this speech at the UN Climate Change COP25 Climate Emergency Event, and it's worth noting that her detractors have kept quiet on the content of this particular address of hers. Time to change is now.
Taken from Cosmic Bos improvisation 3: Summadelica, the 6th words of wisdom outing comes from Nelson Mandela and his freedom speech from 1990
The music underneath is improvised by Cosmic Bos, with Joe Philogene on Percussion, Nick Jackson on Acoustic Guitar and Andy Jackson on Electric Guitar
We here at Cosmic Bos have been busy recording an EP (coming very soon), as well as our next Improvisation podcast, so plenty of new material coming up in the near future.
In between this though, we have been having jams on the beach with Kalimbas.
Kalimba Beach Jam #1
Kalimba Beach Jam #2
Kalimba Beach Jam #3
It has been great fun playing the Kalimba, and it makes a big appearance in our next improvised album (which we've recorded already but not mixed yet, or worded up with wisdom).
Big thanks to Joe Philogene for being such a legend, he truly has made 2021 an exciting year of musical exploration and Cosmic Bos wouldn't be the same without him.
Coming Up next: An EP, some silliness in video form, and more.
Cosmic Bos presents Words of Wisdom 5: Charlie Chaplin
With improvised music provided by Cosmic Bos as part of Improvisation 3: Summadelica
The speech comes from Charlie Chaplin's film The Great Dictator (1940) and it is a zinger indeed, it's already done the rounds on the internet many times, and it was always the plan to use it as one of our Words of Wisdom series, you can find the full film on the internet and youtube etc, it's well old and the copyright on it is dubious.
Check out our other words of wisdoms if you haven't already, and there are further ones to come from this very record including Nelson Mandela, Greta Thunberg and Ram Dass, it's a lot of wisdom I can tell ya.
The track and it's musical brothers can be found on Spotify
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Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
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You are looking lovely today, have you done something with your third eye?
Well, it's August now, and time for another couple of hours of improvised music with a sprinkling of wise words from 4 very powerful speakers.
Cosmic Bos Improvisation 3: Summadelica
Tracklist:
Ideas
Space Babies
On the Take
Frantic Pedantic
Precious Moments
Words of Wisdom 5: Charlie Chaplin
Rainbow Appearing
Perfect Summer Day
Words of Wisdom 6: Nelson Mandela
Hold On a Little Longer
The Things
Words of Wisdom 7: Greta Thunberg
Pleased, pleased, pleased, with what I've got
Words of Wisdom 8: Ram Dass
Moral Compass
All music improvised by Cosmic Bos
Joe Philogene - Percussion, Ngoni and various instruments
Nick Jackson - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Synth and Vocals
Andy Jackson - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Synth and Vocals
On the 5th June 2021, Cosmic Bos met at a secret location to record the third in their fully improvised series, with a book full of pre-written lyrics and plenty of snacks. It was a wonderful afternoon of musical exploration, and here for your pleasure is the whole thing, including some of the intros and outros that usually get cut off, there is about 20 mins of it, that is not present on the album version.
The words of wisdoms for this episode where lovingly borrowed from YouTube, with Charlie Chaplin's speech being from the film The Great Dictator (1940) and available on youtube many times, with music accompanying it. Nelson Mandela's speech from his release from prison in 1990 also comes from youtube and shares far to many similarities to Chaplin's speech from 50 years before. Which leads us to Greta Thunberg from December 2019 addressing the UN on Climate Change, with echos of both Chaplin and Mandela.
So as not to feel too down and out about the state of the world and the people that patrol it, the final Words of Wisdom comes from Ram Dass, an ever reliable source of great wisdom. The full Ram Dass speech can be found on the Here and Now podcast, link to the specific episode right here.
Well, it's time for us to all get a little bit spacey and reconnect with our inner child, or inner baby, a bit of preverbal exploration of existence.
Space Babies! The first single from our upcoming album Cosmic Bos Improvisation 3: Summadelica
Music improvised by Joe Philogene (Percussion), Nick Jackson (Electric Guitar and Synth) and Andy Jackson (Acoustic Guitar and Vocals)
Video starring Theodore Jackson as Space Baby and Andrea Jackson as Space Baby Momma
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Season 3 podcast cover starring Theo 'Space Baby' Jackson
Space Babies - lyrics by Andy Jackson
Flying through space
Feel no air at my waist
The pressures are gone
Freedom swims along
Imagination
Mental elevation
Whole worlds shall dissolve
New empires unfold
It’s a game, we’re just playing
It’s a laugh, we’re all staying
These dragons all need slaying
We need truth, I’m just saying
Flying through space
Like a babies first taste
No sense letting the pressure
Stop exploring together
Imaginations
Create greater nations
Cooperating peacefully
Will be achieved eventually
It’s a game, we the players
It’s quite hard, entertain us
These dragons sent for slaying
Are our reason for staying
Space, need plenty of space
Babies gotta taste
For that infinite space
...
No Babies or Cows were adversely affected during the making of this video, however, one of the cows did spontaneously turn inside out yesterday, but that was nothing to do with the video, purely coincidental.
The idea for this video had been bouncing around the Cosmic Bos camp for a little while, originally it was to have been adults swimming in space, but when Theo came along and melted our hearts with his theodorableness it became a no brainer to get him to be our test subject for green screen based space flight, somewhat cheaper then Bezos, Branson and Musk, we managed to send Theo in to space without a rocket or a suit, and judging by his reactions he was loving his time floating round the cosmos meeting cows and aliens and just generally having a little swim in space.
The deeper meaning behind all this lovely babies in space stuff has to do with our very own entry points to this reality, could we all just be space babies that have plugged in to this 3D spectrum to have a human experience for a bit, before we return to space babiedom and find another playground to have an existential experience in? Maybe baby. Worth some pondering for sure.
As a baby, the possibilities remain infinite, it is only time and interactions that shape the infinite into the finite, crushing the language paradigm, the visual realm, the mental capability to do literally whatever you can imagine, all slowly moulded out of us. But, a Baby shows you this, and for a brief moment you can remember what it is like to be free of all pressure.
Find your inner space baby and go on an adventure, share this experience far and wide so that all can be reminded how amazing we all are really.
Peace and infinite love
Cosmic Bos
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The conclusion of the Sunrise Reflections comes in the form of 2 songs, the penultimate track being Clearly Designed, and the final song being Pinata of Troy.
Clearly Designed - Cosmic Bos Improvisation
Ngoni - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
After the deep thinking soul soothing antics of Ram Dass, it is time for the smokey wisdom of Cosmic Bos, with Joe using his Hunters Harp to hold the song together, Andy and Nick help build the tapestry. At the end of our musical/visual journey we are at our most burnt out, and beautiful colourful smoke carries our almost final musical opus away, the sun sets and the day is done, after the next one (Piñata of Troy).
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Here are the lyrics which were written prior to the musical improv.
Clearly Designed - by Andy Jackson
Waiting out another cycle Too many layers to this trifle Clearly designed and built to shine But socially easy to stifle
Wear the honour like a hat There really is no shame in that Clearly designed and made to shine You’re the hipster coolest cat
Normally the normal me Would embrace all that I can see The signs are all designed clearly Proving this ain’t reality
Save your memories in a chest One day it will be all that’s left Clearly refined preserved design Testament to your dying breath
Normally the normal me Gets swept up in catastrophe Of late though I’ve designed clearly A proclaimed self sufficiency
Systems trotted out and barely tested Propping up the failed reinvested A clear design fault finally been bested Medal goes to third, the hairy chested
Normally the normal me Gets glitched out by bad latency On this occasion I’ll agree To check this was designed clearly
...
and finally...
Pinata of Troy - Cosmic Bos
The final track from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections sees the sun setting on our adventure and the Pinata being gifted to Troy.
Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Synth - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
PIÑATA Of TROY - lyrics by Andy Jackson
Slow cooking up a cluster duck
Shredded, pancaked, out of luck
From pond to plate
Best not to wait
Or moral issues surface
Go Derek on the little things
Kindness floats on angel wings
From start to end
The great pretend
Will barely scratch the surface
Back end of the convoy
First to see the decoy
But treated like a chew toy
Piñata given to Troy
It’s animal to instinct
Not capable of deep think
But baby, bath and the sink
Don’t deserve discarding
It’s human to be lazy
It’s chaos wrapped in crazy
memory is some what hazy
Unless directed by Scorcese
Back end of the convoy
First to see the decoy
Treated like a chew toy
Pinata given to Troy
...
At the end we have our toy horse full of treats, ready to be given to someone who will hopefully enjoy it and get something positive from it, we are not enemies, but friends who haven't met yet, so here's a piñata. Our journey concludes.
What a journey it has been, from the early twinklings of Time is Now, through the ups and downs of Sunrises, Intentions, Bad Decisions, World Feelings worth staying for, wise wise Ram Dass, Being in the now, Now, reflecting, reflective...to the end, where the oversized Pinata is gifted to the enemy, so we may all be friends and solve this riddle of existence together, for together is always better.
The sun sets on this journey, the second of our fully improvised album releases, utilising the sunsets filmed after the session from our window, we close this book. But fear not, for the story is far from over, and Improvisation 3: Summadelica is already in the bag and itching to get out.
Sunrise Reflections was a truly wonderful project to work on, and Joe Philogene brought so much love, energy and talent to the core of this work which gave Nick and Andy such a rich space to explore musically, it was an honour.
Also Ram Dass, what can be said about Ram Dass?!
Mainly for what we were using him for it was rhythm, Ram Dass speaks with such flow and rhythm that combining his voice with our improvised music just worked so well, so well in fact that we used him for all of the improvised Words of Wisdom sections, as well as the song that bore his books title 'Be Here Now'.
Check out the Here and Now podcast to hear lots of awesome mind opening speeches by Ram Dass
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We came here for the fun, but stayed here for the feeling
Track 9 on Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections
Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
Video by Nick and Andy Jackson
After a couple of sets of wise words from the almighty Ram Dass, Cosmic Bos come back to their musical roots and serve up a somewhat simple singer songwriter kinda song. With lyrics by Andy, the chaps came here for the fun, but stayed here for the feeling.
Stayed Here for the Feeling - Lyrics by Andy Jackson
Spread across the bed
While the mower’s in the shed
Gets dustier and rustier
Use paving stones instead
Lazy built an empire
And then slept through the day
Generations greatest gifts
Casually thrown away
But fun is what we came for
The feelings’ why we stayed
We’ll decimate the buffet
And likely misbehave
Yonder window sunset
Yesterday was better
Except for the pain we felt
So easy to forget her
Tomorrow could be easy
Or is that simply dreaming
Came here for the fun
But stayed here for the feeling
Today is all okay
This is time worth stealing
Came here for the fun
Stayed here for the feeling
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After the Words of Wisdom 3 Ram Dass, the musical adventuring just didn't want to leave the wise guy alone, so for the next song, Ram Dass continues to dish out the tasty wisdom treats while the Bos chaps noodle away in a musical fashion.
Cosmic Bos improved the music, and they are:
Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar, Synth and Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
This song is track 8 in the Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections album, which is available from all good music streaming venues, please take your pick
This song is a direct follow on from Words of Wisdom 3, as the music began to swell a vocal called out 'Be Here Now', and the whirlwind swirled us all in, and Ram Dass had to stop talking so the music could take over, and that is how this song was born.
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Be Here Now is one of Ram Dass's central thesis's, and truly a reflection of what we have been doing here at Cosmic Bos with our improvisation podcast project.
Ram Dass samples taken from Here and Now podcast, full episode link here
We have reached the words of wisdom part of this visual presentation, and for your enlightenment we present to you Ram Dass
Cosmic Bos presents Words of Wisdom 3: Ram Dass
Music improvised by Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson, this is an excerpt from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections, it is track 7 and marks the start of the second section of the album.
Original Audio of Ram Dass taken from the Here and Now podcast
For lots and lots of Ram Dass wisdom you should check it out, it's an amazing website with lots of podcasts and collections of great talks by Ram Dass, well worth your time.
Track 6 of our Sunrise Reflections is the magical Feel the World
The 6th outing from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections is the beautiful song Feel the World, accompanied by some stunning nature photography.
Percussion and Vocals - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Backing Vocals - Andy Jackson
Feel the World - lyrics by Joe Philogene
One Heart,
One Soul,
One Mind
Feel the World
Utilising a selection of percussive instruments (including the spinny round the head wwoooooo making thing) Joe leads the chant to Mother Earth, and we spend some time in the relaxing forest making sweet fairy music for all of the wonders that surround us.
Cosmic Bos are big fans of the World, it's pretty neat, and we think that it deserves more attention, some more songs about it, especially after all it's done for us. We are somewhat ungrateful children to the Earth, and it really is time we tidied our room before the threat of no dinner becomes an actuality.
Spend time outside, go and feel the world in your lungs, let the bird song enrich your soul, let the breeze tickle your senses, and remember that we are all part of the same thing, we are all in this together (cough, Mr Bezos!).
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The fifth track from Improv 2 finds us back with a set of lyrics to contemplate existence and some trippy visuals to sooth the eyes.
Percussions - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
Intentionally - lyrics by Andy Jackson
Intentionally slowing down
Potentially turn this frown
Upside down and inside out
See what this is all about
Trickery came thick at me
Distorted all reality
But truth wins eventually
Tunnelling through intentionally
Intentionally freaking out
Sucking juice from seeds of doubt
Drafting up the backless gown
Mooning the entire town
Trickery comes down the line
Causing shifts in fickle time
But truth will win the vintage wine
Intentionally solving the crime
Intentionally, Potentially, Intentionally
On a simple chord sequence, the Bos chaps present a haunting tale of intentions, facing the trickery that we face daily, not being afraid to stand up for ourselves, be questioning, don't just accept apathy, be present in the moment so you can live your life with intention, intentionally.
Joe beats the frame drums to the rhythm of our souls, while Nick wails the woes with the electric and Andy teaches his acoustic a lesson in strumming. Fun stuff indeed. This song, like all the previous songs in this presentation has begun it's journey as an improvisation, come up with there and then, with the pre-written lyrics serving as a guide for some thoughtful rhymes and vibes, when the lyrics are left to also be improvised they tend to lean towards the silly side of the spectrum rather then the profound.
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The fourth song from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections, and the next instalment in our audio/visual presentation.
Ngoni and Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar, Synth and Vocals - Nick Jackson
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
The lyrics for this song were improvised on the spot, just like the rest of the song. There was a collection of jars sat behind Nick on a shelf, they acted as the launching point for the lyrical wonder that is 'Apparently'.
We decided on a colourful moving image palette to go with this song, and sunflowers. Hopefully a visual feast for your eyes while the music is a treat for your ears. Imagine the smell of beautiful flowers to complete the sensory experience (we are not yet capable of releasing the smell version of our jams)
For the full improv session visit our podcast site and download the 2 hour meditative improvised musical experience. The full version features some wonderful words of wisdom by Ram Dass, it's embedded right below these very words in fact.
This is the title track from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 2: Sunrise Reflections, and the third song in this audio/visual presentation.
Ngoni and Percussion - Joe Philogene
Electric Guitar, Synth and Backing Vocals - Nick Jackson Acoustic Guitar and Vocals - Andy Jackson
Sunrise Reflections lyrics by Andy Jackson
Nothing beats a sunrise
Party up a surprise
Cameras are our new eyes
Ones that never use lies
Changing of perspective
Replace what’s now defective
Of life we be protective
Let’s avalanche collective
Together we have powers
To topple ancient towers
To overthrow in hours
The corner dwelling cowards
But best just to avoid it
Let them sleep in their own shit
We’ll come in for a refit
Once this old horse has bolted
All the steps we’ve counted
And failures we’ve dismounted
Why was it ever doubted?
Nature just gets rerouted
Humans are just a blip
Missing one obvious trick
Harmony with Mother Nature
Doesn’t require legislature
What we take we must replace
There can’t be losers in this race
It’s every planet, species, life form
Winning all the time we’ll reform
A dream that we can wake to
A dream that we can wake to
...
Reflecting on the world near the start of the day can be a healthy way to approach the challenges that the hours are likely to bring your way. Always remember the clouds are there to bring colour and flair to the sky.
Joe leads with a beautiful Ngoni rhythm, which Nick and Andy meander around.
For the visuals we searched for sunrises and epic skylines from around the world, and then over-layed it on us playing.
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