Monochrome Motif Records presents - Poseidon's Realm by the Monochrome Assembly (Preview Podcast out now)

Happy day music lover,

Welcome to this special presentation podcast all about Monochrome Motif records new album coming out 22nd April 2023 - Poseidon's realm by the monochrome assembly

https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album

Order your copy right now from the above link.

To celebrate Monochrome Motif Records first birthday, Andrew Hartshorn (Label manager) put together a super musical team of ultra talented musicians to take on the mammoth task of concurring Poseidon's realm, and Spoiler Alert, the assembled musical masters took it to the depths.

Here's a quick word from the boss himself - Andrew Hartshorn

Re: Poseidon launch

Really pleased with how the launch has gone with lots of listens across the board for the preview tracks that are part of the preorder. 

A big thank you to everyone who has already placed a pre order for the download and the limited edition CD.

As we already have the stock, all pre ordered CD's will be posted immediately so it means you get to hear the tracks prior to the official launch date of 22nd April.

By purchasing the album (https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album) it will support our ambitious plans for the forthcoming year with a further 7 albums currently scheduled.

And finally a massive thank you to all the artists, for their time, skill and enthusiasm for the project

- Andrew Hartshorn (Monochrome Motif Label Manager)

Thank you Andrew for the update, now on with the preview show

There are 6 preview songs from Poseidon's realm here for your listening pleasure: and the running order is as such

1. The Lighthouse (Andrew Hartshorn, Natalie Williams Calhoun and A Sea Warren)

2. it's Between me and the sea (Andrew Hartshorn and Cosmic Bos)

3. Drowned (A Sea Warren)

4. Painted Ship on a Painted Ocean (Alexa Thanos & Sean Ettlin)

5. The Siren's Lament (Dan Johnson - Age of Infernal)

6. The Last Glacier (Hipster Pug)

Here is the embed from bandcamp of these 6 awesome songs

The full album has 7 other songs that complete this unique and wonderful celebration record, which, let's face it, you really should get a copy for your collection, maybe buy two so you have a backup if one gets broken by squirrels (trust me, it's a serious problem in some parts of the world)

Full bio's of all the members of the Monochrome Assembly can be heard in this preview podcast. The full members roster for the monochrome assembly is Andrew Hartshorn, Natalie Williams Calhoun, A Sea Warren, Cosmic Bos, Dan Johnson (Age of Infernal), Hipster Pug and Alexa Thanos & Sean Ettlin. 

Don't forget to visit the bandcamp page and get your copy today https://monochromemotif.bandcamp.com/album/poseidons-realm-album 

And like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos's podcast, https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

And comment please, comments help spread the word.

Thank you for your time, hope you enjoy all this amaze-ball music, and pick up a copy of the full album. Have a great lunch

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

MMC 1.3 - Ignorance (Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast) 27 songs for you, no soup though I'm afraid

 Hello lovely you,

Welcome to the blog for the new episode of Monthly Music Challenge podcast

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.3 - Ignorance

 Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) are the idiots here to take you through the 27 songs of the third month of the challenge. The main monthly theme was #Ignorance and 13 of the songs you will hear today were written around that idea. 

 Thanks to the amazing people of Music Weeklies we managed to secure some other wonderful songs through the other hashtags of March 2023, and we also introduce a new section at the end of the podcast called Late Subs, so if you want to get in on the Monthly Music Challenge action you can send us songs based on the previous Monthly hashtags (1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, and now 3. Ignorance) for a chance to be played in the Late Subs.

 Before we delve into the full tracklist, it's our pleasure to announce the next hashtag for the MMC, so MMC 1.4 will be #Winning. We are not paired with the Music Weeklies peeps on this one, so there is no pressure to get your monthly song finished in a week.

 Get your #Winning songs in to us by 5th May 2023 please, if you are new to the MMC then send an MP3 with a bio about yourself to cosmicbos@gmail.com , without further adoing let's get on with the show.

 Ignorance Songs

  1. Idiots - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos  

  2. Ignorance - Mobidextrous @mobidextrous9777  

  3. Ignorance - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey  

  4. Artificial Ignorance - Graham Casey 

  5. Ignorance - Dario Erico @Deadarius  

  6. Wilful Ignorance - Trench Gun @trenchgunM1897  

  7. MuWee Ignorance - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh  

  8. Ignorance - The Shiver One @theshiverone1977  

  9. The Size of the Stars - Notehead 

 10. I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler   

 11. Eden - Andrew Hartshorn @andrewhartshornmusic  

 12. Without Your Love - ASeaWarren @aseawarren  

 13. Ignorance (Boris Johnson) - Reuben Cooper  

Now that's a lot of great ignorance songs right there, some returning players and a couple of new faces, go check out all these amazing artists on their socials

 UpsideDown Songs

  14. Down for the Upside - Cosmic Bos  

  15. Free Flow - Notehead 

  16. Downside Up - Esky013 

GodsOfOlympus Songs

  17. Gods and Goddesses of Olympus - Cosmic Bos 

  18. Ares God of War - Michel Debois  @micheldebois  

MW200thTheme Songs

  19. Reflections of our Inescapable Humanity (No Soup for You) - Cosmic Bos 

  20. Because it was - Man of Arun @ManOfArun  

  21. Post Apocalyptic - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler    

PainoSolo Songs

  22. Reflections in the Ethereal Water - Ashen Music  @ashenmusicofficial  

  23. Ivory and Ebony - Cosmic Bos  

Late Subs (Brand new section we added on for all the late submissions)

  24. Escape This! - TexMex Shaman 

  25. Pretend to Escape - Colin Pimlott @colinpimlott9029  

  26. Love Restored -  The Word Alchemist and Cosmic Bos   

  27. Let the Shaman Show You Round -  @TexMexShaman  and Cosmic Bos  

That's ya lot, and it sure is a lot, a lot of great music.

 We (Cosmic Bos) put all of our tracks out in a handy EP, which coincidently has the same name as this episode of the podcast, MMC 1.3 - Ignorance, you can get it on bandcamp here

https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-13-ignorance

 And you can find video versions of all of our entries on youtube on our channel here

And here is the youtube playlist of the Monthly Music Challenge

Please check out all the amazing musicians of the MMC, their socials will be pleased, help us build this community of true grass roots musicians, tell your musical friends to come get involved, it's still really early days with this, and together we can make it a force to reckon with, an alternative music industry of creative expression. Also, don't forget the next theme is #Winning, so get making your winning songs.

 Thanks for being awesome

We love you

Please like, share and subscribe 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Direct podcast page - https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

MMC Playlist on youtube again just in case you missed it above

New Monthly Music Challenge 1.3 Ignorance EP by Cosmic Bos OUT NOW #BandcampFriday

 Hello friends,

It's been a busy time around the Cosmic Bos parts, so apologies for having not blogged much, it's a full time job just keeping up with all the musical shenanigans behind the scenes. Best place for regular updates from us would be YouTube. Anyway, here's our EP for Bandcamp Friday, MMC 1.3 - Ignorance

If you buy it today we get all the money, Bandcamp waver their fees for this special day, so please consider supporting us if you enjoy what we do, it really is a labour of love for us.

We put together a little YouTube short that gives you a little snippet of all 5 songs from the EP, and also a handy link to our youtube channel Cosmic Bos YouTube Link

MMC 1.3 - Ignorance EP has been a fun one to put together, Nick and I (Andy) set ourselves an extra task with our Monthly tune of making something that didn't have a chorus, and our song 'Idiots' did just that, as well as giving us the chance to split vocal duties and have a section each, with me leading the first half and Nick leading the second part, also the inclusion of my Beavis and Butthead impression just because why not hey!

The other 4 songs were all made for the Music Weeklies hashtags of March

Down for the Upside was for the #UpsideDown challenge - I wanted to write something that switched things up a bit and bought some positive uplift, and well, this some came out of it.

Gods and Goddesses of Olympus was for the #GodsOfOlympus challenge, and it's pretty self explanatory what I did here, initially I was only going to write about Hermes and Aphrodite giving birth to Hermaphroditus, but the more research I did the more it started to feel like epic film versions of reality TV, so it ultimately ended up as a run down of the main players.

Reflections of our Inescapable Humanity (No soup for you) was for the #MW200thTheme challenge, where we were allowed to pick from any of the 199 other hashtags previously run by them, I initially went with #Humanity but as the song progressed it became much more of a #SitcomTheme song about Seinfeld and how much I love that show.

Finally, Ivory and Ebony was for the #PianoSolo challenge, not being a pianist I had to think outside the box with this one, and went for a song about how the piano is a good metaphor for racial harmony and equality, music sees no skin colour.

We will make another lyric video to go with Idiots, to match our Nude Beginnings and Make Good Our Escape efforts, that will be with you soon too. In the meantime, you can see all the weekly produced vids that go with the above songs right here in this handy playlist

New Monthly Music Challenge episode out on Sunday, jam packed with juicy new music for you

Check out the previous episode if you have a spare couple of hours

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Idiots (weeklies version) by Cosmic Bos for the #Ignorance Monthly Music Challenge

 Hello friends,

Check out Idiots (weeklies version) by Cosmic Bos

And here's the YouTube video link if you wish to see Andy doing his Beavis and Butt-head impression

We are deep into Monthly Music Challenge 1.3 - Ignorance, with several submissions already received it is shaping up to be one hell of a show I'm telling you. Our entry (Cosmic Bos) for the #Ignorance challenge is 'Idiots', the version you hear here is the version we put together for the Music Weeklies challenge, they only give you one week to make your song, where as here at Monthly Music Challenge we give you the added bonus time of One Whole Calendar month to make your song. 

It's very exciting, you should come get involved, here is the link to the podcast itself, please go and subscribe to it where ever you do your podcasting (it should be there, just search Monthly Music Challenge) or direct link HERE (OFFICIAL PODCAST PAGE)

Our last episode MMC 1.2 - Escape was an absolute blast and a half, check it out!

Thanks for the review Scowsh

Big thanks to New Music Saturday for spinning our weeklies version of Idiots, and also big thanks for crediting us on TexMex Shamans new song, alas, we had nothing to do with it's creation, it was prompted by the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos, we don't deserve any of the credit. Spoiler Alert! we've had a late submission for Escape, by the awesome TexMex Shaman, we will spin it on the next
episode in a new segment we will probably call Late Subs, or something equally juvenile knowing us.

In other news, the Lights and Lines Album in a Month competition is returning in May, hosted once again by the enigmatic Mike5, Cosmic Bos will be taking part this year, but in a bit of a different way from last year. More to come on that for sure.

Also, also, while we are doing news, the last hashtag by Music Weeklies was #UpsideDown and I (Andy) made a little song for it, as is my songwriting duty, and here it is for you, on the end of this blog, it's called Down for the Upside

Thanks for stopping by, love ya

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge (MMC) 1.2 - Escape (ft. 25 songs all made in Feb 2023)

 Hello friends,

Welcome to Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast, episode 1.2 - Escape

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Episode 1.2 - Escape

Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) are here to guide you through the wonderfully creative set of 25 songs (that's right! 25 chooons for you) all built around the hashtags of Feb 2023 (#Escape, #Freedom, #StandOut & #Family)set by the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies (check out the community on Twitter) favouring the first one of course, as that is the monthly challenge.

Before we delve deep into this bag of music, so you know what the challenge is for March, the next episode will be MMC 1.3 - #Ignorance - so get writing your ignorance songs to submit to the podcast, closing date 7th April. Okay, business out the way, let's get down to, err, business.

Escape songs

• 1. Make Good Our Escape (Monthly version) - Cosmic Bos
• 2. Break Out - Trench Gun
• 3. Escape - Peter Hawkey
• 4. Run - Steve 3rd Echo Sounds
• 5. Scrambling Free - Graham Casey
• 6. Escape - Scowsh Molosh
• 7. Escape - Mobidextrous
• 8. How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek
• 9. Dance (Escape the Week) - Mijimo
• 10. Endure and Survive - Aaliya Mondesir (Lovely Mango)
• 11. Escape - ASeaWarren
• 12. The Fall of Icarus - Andrew Hartshorn
• 13. Escapist - Notehead
• 14. 7749 - Hellwaddler

Wowsa! What a line up! Some returning players and some newbies to the MMC, go check out all these amazing artists on Twitter.

Freedom songs

• 15. But What Does Freedom Mean? - Cosmic Bos
• 16. Disenfranchised - Trench Gun
• 17. Watching the Sky - Hellwaddler
• 18. Price of Freedom is Death - Stefan Bohacek

StandOut songs

• 19. Stand Out - Cosmic Bos
• 20. Stand Out There - David Patterson
• 21. Out Standing - Cosmic Bos

Family songs

• 22. Muwee Family Nintendo tracker - Scowsh Molosh
• 23. Family Plan - Mobidextrous
• 24. Family Tree - Cosmic Bos

And that's all the hashtag songs, Outer Galactic shout out to all the amazing musicians that sent in their tracks, you guys are awesome and we love all of you, let's spread the word and get even more creative, talented musicians involved.

We added a little bonus feature to the end of this show too, as we are evolving this idea and watching it take shape. We were asked by The Word Alchemist to do an instrumental version of one of Nick's older songs, which we did, and then it seemed only natural to add the vocal and before we knew it we had a fully finished song.

So, we launch this new feature into the Monthly Music Challenge by in which, if the inspiration from the hashtag of the month isn't grabbing you, you can raid your musical archive and spruce up, rework or simply redo something from your songbook, we are calling this section 

FromTheSongbook songs

And Cosmic Bos are going first with this, so here's the first entry to the Songbook section of the MMC

• 25. Heart Holder - Cosmic Bos

Heart Holder was originally recorded by Cosmic Bos as part of a special presentation in Season 2 of our podcast, and it's a totally banger, with Nick taking the lead vocal and the guitars pumping it all up. It was fun doing a proper recording of it, and as is the usual Bos way, we will see where this feature goes, we have plenty of songs in our own songbooks which may appear here...

You can purchase our full EP on bandcamp

Thanks for listening, please like, share and subscribe, and leave us a review on your podcasting platform of choice (it helps spread the word and build our musical community)

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Also here is the direct podcast homepage https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com 

Also YouTube does us quite well, and the full podcast is available there too, so here's that link

Coming Up Next Month is Monthly Music Challenge 1.3 - Ignorance, get making those songs 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Oh and, check out this amazing Midnight Gospel style artwork of Andy from Cosmic Bos (Thanks Dayne, we love you)

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Family Tree - Cosmic Bos #Family music weeklies challenge entry

 Hello fam,

Straight off the bat I want to say, I love you, you are amazing, thank you for coming to our little corner of the internet, we hope you enjoy your time here.

Family Tree by Cosmic Bos

For the #Family weeklies music challenge, the final hashtag of Feb 2023.

I (Andy) really love and respect my family, they have been instrumental in my development as a human being and I am eternally grateful to them all, and my friends as well, love you all. This song is for all of you, every human that is part of the great human family tree.

Here's the TikTok video I made for it, on youtube 

Also, quick heads up, Monthly Music Challenge 1.2 Escape is coming on the 5th March, and our EP of 5 tracks from Feb is available right now on bandcamp (and everywhere else tomorrow). We will do a proper blog about it tomorrow, but in the meanwhile,

Here's the embedded Bandcamp link

Please consider purchasing this fine collection of recently put together songs, we love you either way.

Have a great rest of the day fam, stay beautiful

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

But What Does Freedom Mean? New Demo song by Cosmic Bos for the #Freedom music weeklies challenge

 Hello friends,

But What Does Freedom Mean? By Cosmic Bos   

Made for the Music weeklies  #freedom challenge

 I went with a serious tone this time, choosing to ponder the question

 what does freedom mean?

 Big shout outs to the legends Russell Brand and Duncan Truffles for being amazing question askers and journeyers through the mind, love you both infinitely 

 Video version on youtube https://youtu.be/sz8znkctOTY 

Subscribe to our podcast https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com

You can still submit #Escape songs to Cosmic Bos for Monthly Music Challenge 1.2, you can also submit #Freedom songs too, until the 3rd of March 2023

send your mp3s to cosmicbos@gmail.com for inclusion in the podcast, your songs have to be on the themes of the month, that's the requirement for potential inclusion. This month already has quite a few more submissions then last month did, excited to explore everyones take on the Escape theme.

Anyway, have a wonderful weekend, 

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos