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.