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:
Take it Easier
Sunrise Reflections
Intentionally
Bad Decisions
Space Babies
Perplexed
Rainbow Appearing
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Please like, share and subscribe to our podcast, wherever you get your podcast, and a review goes a long way, so if you've got a minute, please leave us a review.
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.
