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.

Cosmic Bos - Virtual Normality EP (Season 3 Special Presentation)

 So friends,

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...

Cover Art by Gecko

Cosmic Bos - Virtual Normality EP

1. Space Babies

2. Take it Easier

3. It's Always You

4. Stay Inside (ft. Texmex Shaman)

5. Ride Another Wave

Available on Spotify Virtual Normality on Spotify

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.

Check him out on Spotify here Texmex Shaman on Spotify

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.

Please subscribe to our shenanigans, and drop us a comment, we love to know what you think of our work, even if you think it stinks and we could do better, constructive criticism is better than no feedback. 

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

Space Babies - Cosmic Bos Virtual Normality version

 So friends,

From the podcast feed

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.

Improvisation 3: Summadelica (ft. Charlie Chaplin, Nelson Mandela, Greta Thunberg and Ram Dass)

 Hello dear friend,

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:

1. Ideas
2. Space Babies
3. On the Take
   
4. Frantic Pedantic
5. Precious Moments
6. Words of Wisdom 5: Charlie Chaplin
7. Rainbow Appearing
8. Perfect Summer Day
9. Words of Wisdom 6: Nelson Mandela
10. Hold On a Little Longer
11. The Things
12. Words of Wisdom 7: Greta Thunberg
13. Pleased, pleased, pleased, with what I've got
14. Words of Wisdom 8: Ram Dass
15. 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.

https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-love-incarnation/

Here are just the songs without the inbetweeny bits, courtesy of YouTube of all places!

All music and lyrics by Cosmic Bos 2021

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Podcast on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Castbox etc. Check it out please, pretty please with a metaphorical cherry on top

Here is the youtube version of the full episode as well, should you wish to click it

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Space Babies - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

 Hello space babies,

How are you doing? Enjoying yourself? 

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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Also also, here is the YouTube link if the podcast one up above was giving you problems. Have a happy existence.