Like Minded - Cosmic Bos Improvisation (full improv session coming 1st May)

 Hello lovely friends,

At the beginning of April, around Easter time, Joe Philogene, Nick Jackson and myself (Andy Jackson) met for a day of improvising music. We had previously tested a day of music together which had produced a couple of exciting improvisations (Perplexed and Ride the Waves) from within our experimentations. This led to the full days improvisation, which subsequently produced almost 2 hours of music, which has been segmented up into 11 songs.

Two of these songs have some words of wisdom placed on top, which you shall get to hear soon, but until then please enjoy this first release from Cosmic Bos Improvisation 1: Soundscapes in the Moment - Like Minded.

We had filmed quite a bit of our days improvising, and there has been some lush sunrises and sunsets recently, so merging these two things made sense. Here are the full lyrics to Like Minded.

LIKE MINDED

Be like the flow of the river

like the wind to the bee

And if that doesn’t work 

try being more like me

Be smart as a sweetie

Avoid all hefty fees 

Although paper does,

Money don’t come from trees

Like a clerk in an office

Or the girl out to sea

Lonely, if only

They could be here with me

Like rust in the workings

Like sun bleached tapestry

Forgot to remember 

What a memory could be

Like radio silence on the TV

Like visual radioactivity

The passive aggression 

And stark futility

Remember to always forget

You're worth more then you'll ever get

Remember to always forget

Your meal still isn’t ready yet

I wrote these while sitting on the beach and watching the world go by, the day before we did the recording session. Just a little fun fact for you there.

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We will drop a similar video to this one for the song 'Not Babylon or Rome' in the next couple of days, and the full album and podcast version will be along on Saturday 1st May, Hooray!

Thanks for all your support, we love you

Cosmic Bos

It's a Mike Schur Thing - Cosmic Bos Discuss

 Hello friends,

We take a break from our usual musical shenanigans to have a chat about one of our favourite creative forces, Mr Michael Schur 

Woo Wee, Cosmic Bos Podcast Season 3 episode 3

Andy and Nick from Cosmic Bos, sit down to discuss the career of Michael Schur, focusing mainly on the 4 TV shows on which he was a main writer and creator, following his journey from The Office: An American Workplace, to the Parks and Recreation department of Pawnee, to the police precinct of Brooklyn 99 and finally ending up in The Good Place.

#TheOffice #ParksandRec #Brooklyn99 #TheGoodPlace

Cosmic Bos are from the UK, so subsequently are not quite as acquainted with Mike Schur's earlier career on Saturday Night Live, but they are big fans of the creative work being done by that extremely talented group of people. This discussion by the Bos boys is not a comprehensive study of Mikes career, more like a couple of fanboys gushing over how amazing they think he is.

Mike Schur has worked with some of the finest talent in America, from megastars like Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Kristen Bell and Ted Danson to super talents like Maya Rudolph, Jason Mantzoukas, Nick Kroll and Chris Pratt. Mike has been involved in some of the funniest and most heartwarming television of the last 16 years, and we just want to celebrate that and look forward to what he has next for us all.

So thanks Mike, you are a legend and we love you

#MikeSchurThing #MikeSchur #CosmicBos #Podcast

So our YouTube is a thing, it has this new episode too, as our podcast is now fully all up there and tubed.

Thanks for being awesome

Stay amazing

Cosmic Bos

Ride the Waves - Improvised Cosmic Bos Acoustic ft. Joe Philogene

 Hello lovely friends,

Here for you is the second improvised song from our improvised pilot session for our new upcoming show Cosmic Bos Improvisation podcast.

A more stripped back and mantra like jam action from your Cosmic Bos then you maybe use to. 

Ride the Waves is the second song from our test session, the first being 'Perplexed'. We also recorded a bunch of other stuff on that day, but that's for our ears only (at least until we become mega famous and have special anthologies made about us, and someone unearths from the iCloud the lost songs from the pilot session of the worlds most celebrated podcast)

On Saturday 3rd April 2021 we recorded the first full episode of our improvisation podcast, (take note of the date time travellers) currently untitled, still got a bit of time to come up with a clever title. It was an amazing session, we streamed the middle part of it live on instagram and facebook and sessions all at the same time.

In fact, here it is embedded from facebook

The 5 songs from this live jam will turn up on the improvisation podcast I mentioned earlier in this blog, we have 3 songs from the session we did before the live bit, and 3 songs/bits from the session we did straight after this stream. But these 5 songs exist for you here not too dissimilar to how they will turn up in the future on our first fully improvised album (currently still untitled, I had not managed to come up with a title since starting writing this blog). The 5 songs here are: 

1. Perplexed
2. Metrics of Success
3. Yarway
4. Share
5. Crazy-Go-Round

Yarway and Crazy-Go-Round can be found on Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Episode 7: On Yarway, these versions here are the improvised versions.

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Thanks for being amazing

We have an April podcast lined up that is a bit different from what we've done before, it's called 'A Mike Schur thing' where Nick and Andy are going to chat about all things Mike Schur created and related, it should be fun, at least for us it will be, for you, hopefully too.

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos