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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos

Cosmic Bos: Nick and Andy Jackson

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos is where songwriters and musicians come to take part in a challenge, a music making one, in which you have 1 month to make a song or piece of music around a theme, then submit it to us and we will play it on the podcast. This is the second year of this challenge, and if you can stick with it for the whole year as a musician you will have an album by the end of it. Come and join the most creative, expressive and inclusive musical community on the internet. Cosmic Bos are Nick and Andy Jackson. Brothers from Brighton, UK. They make music, lots and lots of it. It is found here in this very podcast. Brief History of the Podcast : Season 1 (2019) - Improv-Revisation 9 Full Episodes/Albums of music that was derived from improv sessions that were edited/revised. Plus 20 music videos. Season 2 (2020) - Improv-Revisation 2 7 Full Ep/Albums of improv-revisation, other 1st year of lockdown stuff, and 19 music videos. Season 3 (2021) - Improvisation 1 final Improv-revisation and 4 full Improvisation albums with Joe Philogene, and 40 music videos Season 4 (2022) - Improv Squared and Making of an Album 1 full Improv Squared album and the Making of an Album special, with an EP and a live album too. Season 5 (2023) - Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos It's a pretty epic musical adventure we are on, come join us, and get involved. Please like, share and subscribe, and leave us a lovely comment
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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - Episode 10: Multiverse, Chorus, Repeat

Episode 10: Multiverse, Chorus, Repeat

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02/01/20 • 79 min

Tracklist:

  1. Focus
  2. Second Step
  3. Music is Happiness Dancing in Your Ears
  4. Unjustly
  5. Keep it Light
  6. Learn When to Stop
  7. Quip Quip, What What, Old Chap!
  8. Pumpkin People
  9. Vines to Climb
  10. Intoxicated
  11. Infinite Possibility Club

All music improvised, revised & mastered by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson.

Hosted by Jethro, Jeffrey and Nick, in the first episode of the new decade, and the 10th visit to the Bos studios for a day of improvised shenanigans, the Bos Boys serve up 11 interesting tunes, and our monkey hosts (and Nick) discuss the possible other universe interpretations, as well as the usual, Jeffreys Story, Jethro's game and general nonsensery. Enjoy!

Please check out our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/cosmicbos

Also, download the album version of this podcast on Spotify, iTunes etc. all without the stupid chatter.

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - Space Babies - Cosmic Bos Improvisation (Official Music Video)
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07/24/21 • 5 min

Space Babies - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

Taken from 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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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

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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.

#babies #space #improv #improvmusic #babyvideo #cutebaby

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - Road Trip - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

Road Trip - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video)

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11/28/20 • 5 min

Road Trip - Cosmic Bos

from Cosmic Bos Improv-Revisation Ep.16: Mask and Thy Shall Deceive

Music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson and Doug Rutter

Revised and Mastered by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson

Video by Nick Jackson

Our final video of 2020 is another lego entry, ft. Doug Rutter and a road trip through the imagination, where it's cold outside.

Thanks for all the support during this interesting year, we love you all, exciting things coming in 2021.

 

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In (ft. Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird)
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02/01/21 • 119 min

Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In

ft. Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird

Tracklist:

  1. Waiting
  2. Aim
  3. Wicker Bells
  4. Never Ending Summer
  5. Eyes
  6. Feral Girl
  7. It's Not Gonna Go Well
  8. Rear View Mirror
  9. Ben's Shiny Car
  10. Witching Hour
  11. Beautiful Stories
  12. Grey Clouds Came and Took the Summer Away

All music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson, Ben Bluebird and Anya Louisa

Revised and mastered by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson

Season 3 starts with a magic trick, watch as we improvise and then revise an entire album from one days jamming session. It's the same trick we have now pulled 17 times, but it's a good trick and it has a vastly different outcome every time, so, ta dah!

Anya Louisa brings a whole new dimension to the Cosmic Bos set up, and Ben Bluebird spices up the music and vocal atmosphere just lovelily, big thanks to them both.

We tackle the big questions on everyones minds, like, is magic real? do Magicians need dating apps specially designed for their illusionist needs? How should you rub your wicker bells so as not to get blisters on your fingers? All these questions and more won't be answered in this podcast, but they might get discussed, maybe. At least you have 12 improv songs with beautiful vocals by Anya to enjoy.

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All the love in the multiverse

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - Improvisation 3: Summadelica

Improvisation 3: Summadelica

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08/01/21 • 122 min

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.

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/

All music and lyrics by Cosmic Bos 2021

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Peace and infinite love

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - MMC 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence

MMC 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence

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07/09/23 • 163 min

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos (the MMC)

Episode 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence

Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical side of artificial intelligence, what can we learn from our robotic offspring? Will they ultimately rise up and destroy us all? Can we find a way to live in harmony? All these important questions and more will not be answered here, this is a music challenge podcast, with a couple of idiots in the hosting chairs, if you want deep philosophical discussions on A.I then please check out other more informed podcasts, if, however, you want lots of musical explorations of the theme, ranging from Electropop to Orchestral to Heavy Metal, then you are in the right place. Welcome.

We have a humdinger of an episode for you this month, with some Beeeeeeeeautiful songs by MMC regulars like Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Tonal Drift, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Man of Arun, Scowsh Molosh, Peter Hawkey, Mobidextrous and Trench Gun as well as 3 exceptional new additions from Natalie Williams Calhoun, Voltage Poetry Project and JPeck.

Outergalactic shoutout to the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies, which continues to supply the MMC with some of the most exciting musicians working in the world today, we love you guys

The next hashtag (for MMC 1.7) is Mother Earth #MotherEarth

You have until the 4th August 2023 to get your songs about the Earth into us for inclusion in the main section of the show, alternatively, you can still submit songs based on the previous 6 themes to be included in our Late Subs section. (Previous themes 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz and now 6. Artificial Intelligence). Send an Mp3 and a write up about your song, along with a bio (for new subs) to [email protected]

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Without further ado, here is the full tracklist for the episode:

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE songs

  • 1. There's No A.I in Team - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
  • 2. Clouds Dissolve - TexMex Shaman & Tea R Sea
  • 3. Talos - Andrew Hartshorn
  • 4. Techno Sapience - Tonal Drift
  • 5. Silent Rebellion - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler
  • 6. A.I God - Notehead
  • 7. Art's Official Intelligence - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
  • 8. Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun
  • 9. Uncanny Valley - Man of Arun @ManofArun
  • 10. Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project
  • 11. Ghost in the Machine - jpeck

There you have it, a whole heap of very real intelligence taking on the artificial world and very clearly coming out on top (for now). Exceptional work all, and a huge welcome to the newbies Natalie Williams Calhoun (NWC!), Voltage Poetry Project (VPP!), jpeck (JPC!) and Tea R Sea (slipping in on the TexMex track), thank you so much for contributing, we wish you a long and musicially rewarding stay on the MMChallenger. Truly wonderful stuff.

There was also a few other hashtags from the music weeklies peoples that produced some interesting songs this month. Firstly there was a MimicAGame challenge which produced some stunning interpretations of classic VGM (Go check out the Music Weeklies site or twitter or discord), we present one of these tracks by our good friends.

  • 12. La Cosa En El Umbral - Trench Gun

As Cosmic Bos are a little out of the gaming loop we took the opportunity to revisit a song from over 10 years ago, and slipped out this little gem.

  • 13. Money Zombies - Cosmic Bos

This challenge was followed up by Bittersweet

  • 14. Bittersweet - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey
  • 15. Bittersweet - Cosmic Bos

Then to mix things up a bit, we did early Late Subs:

  • 16. Hummingbird - TexMex Shaman & Stonerjazz (Razzmajazz)
  • 17. Save the Bees - Trench Gun (MiniMe)

Cheeky little newbie sneaking in there, big shout out to Jeff aka Stonerjazz for your exceptional work with TexMex. Right back on the hashtag train for ComingOut and Smart

  • 18. Third Eye Pride - Cosmic Bos
  • 19. Smart - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
  • 20. Smart - Tonal Drift
  • 21. Watch Your Six - Mobidextrous
  • 22. Get a Little Bit Smarter Everyday - Cosmic Bos

As is tradition now, Cosmic Bos put all our songs onto a handy EP which can be purchased from Bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-16-artificial-intelligence

So quick reminder, the next theme is Mother Earth and you have till the 4th August 2023.

Also, we have finally done the deed and set up a Discord server, come join us there

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - Waiting (ft. Anya Louisa) - Cosmic Bos Official Music Video
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01/09/21 • 3 min

Waiting (ft. Anya Louisa) - Cosmic Bos

Taken from Cosmic Bos Improv-revisation

Ep.17: Magic Eye Can Believe In

Ft. Anya Louisa and Ben Bluebird

Waiting for things, gees it's a drag, but, it's what we gotta do. Poor Anya is waiting for a zoom call, and glitches be happening.

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Leave us a review too, that's a fun thing to do

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - A Tarot Tale (Thoth Tarot Card Music Video)

A Tarot Tale (Thoth Tarot Card Music Video)

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11/10/20 • 4 min

A Tarot Tale - Cosmic Bos

Music improvised by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson & Doug Rutter.

Revised and Mastered by Chris Mace and Nick Jackson

Video by Andy Jackson, Hand acting by Abi Jackson.

Tarot is an old thing that has been passed through time, maybe it's just a game, or maybe it's something more, tied into the very fabric of existence, guiding our fumbling mental states towards some kind of personal evolution, letting us talk to ourselves in a way we can understand, or it could just be some very pretty cards that are nice to look at and ponder.

Whatever you think of Tarot, we here at Cosmic Bos have a set of Tarot cards (Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot) and we wanted to use them in an improvised session to make a song, which is what we did, and this very video is a reenactment of the original Tarot reading (literally, like, just what it says on the cards, no deeper analysis of context or meaning) set to the revised version of the the original improvised song.

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Artwork by iamgecko - Go check it outto

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - I Want - Cosmic Bos (From the Songbook video)

I Want - Cosmic Bos (From the Songbook video)

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08/16/20 • 2 min

I Want - Cosmic Bos

From the Songbook 2020

written by Andy Jackson

Performed by Andy Jackson, Nick Jackson & Chris Mace (Cosmic Bos)

The opening song of the From the Songbook record, this track was written way back in 2011 and is all about wanting to not want things.

Spotify album link https://open.spotify.com/album/6lcceoLBJ0t5AOT1hlISM6?si=dByjUCxCSf-bnXz5Bb5Bcw

Direct podcast link

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos - High - Cosmic Bos (From the Songbook video)

High - Cosmic Bos (From the Songbook video)

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08/23/20 • 2 min

High - Cosmic Bos
From the Songbook

written by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson, Andy Jackson, Paul Bradley & Charlie Gibbs.
Performed by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson & Andy Jackson

Song available on the From the Songbook
https://open.spotify.com/album/6lcceo..

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Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos currently has 153 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Music, Community, Challenge, Podcasts, Music Commentary and Twitter.

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The episode title 'Space Babies - Cosmic Bos Improvisation (Official Music Video)' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos is 51 minutes.

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Episodes of Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos are typically released every 9 days, 9 hours.

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