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Quilt - Cosmic Bos From the Judges Choice Award Winning Album - 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Cosmic Bos 2 A.M, it's Mission Time on Bandcamp - buy on bandcamp, support us little indie musicians Cosmic Bos (Andy & Nick Jackson) enlisted the talents of Joe Philogene to create this wonderful piece of music for the Album in a Month challenge put on by Lights And Lines Indie Label back in May 2022. It is t...

Hello there, Welcome to the 5th and final instalment of our Making of an Album series. Andy and Nick continue where they left off last time. You can buy the album that was the result of this endeavour right here on bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time This is the final part of our year long presentation, and the continuation of last months episode. Visit our blog 'A...

Here's Tom with the Weather by Cosmic Bos A tribute to the late, great Bill Hicks Taken from Cosmic Bos Judges Choice Award Winning Album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Available now everywhere, but especially on band camp where you can support Cosmic Bos by buying a copy Buy the album on bandcamp here This song is part of the album that Cosmic Bos made for the @LightsAndLines  Album in a Month competit...

Patient Mystery - Cosmic Bos (Official Music Video) from the Judges choice award winning album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time Essentially this video is like a family holiday video, set to a song from our award winning album, Baby Theo returns to the spotlight for some exploring of a Welsh beach and a Welsh castle ruins, with his dad (Nick) and...

Bards for Hire - Cosmic Bos Taken from the album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Which picked up a Judges Choice Award in the Lights and Lines Album in a Month Challenge 2022 Bandcamp link - https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/2-a-m-its-mission-time This song is all about us, Cosmic Bos, and how we are available for hire for songwriting or song construction. Please consider us for your next musical need...

The opening track to Cosmic Bos 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Written and recorded by Andy & Nick Jackson Available to buy on bandcamp 2 A.M, it's Mission Time was made as part of the Lights and Lines Album Writing Challenge from May 2022. Cosmic Bos submitted a 12 track album and were lucky enough to pick up a Judges Choice Award for their efforts. The song that kicks the record off is Re:Mission, and...

Hello there, Welcome to the 4th instalment in our special presentation 'Making of an Album', where Andy and Nick break down the details on music making in the 2020's, and how easy it is to do now. For the month of May 2022 Cosmic Bos took on the 'Album in a Month' challenge put on by Lights and Lines Independent record label, and subsequently produced a 12 track album called '2 A.M, it's Mission T...

Whatever You Say It Is, It Isn't - Cosmic Bos Taken from the Judges Choice Award Winning Album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/ Music by Andy Jackson, Nick Jackson and Joe Philogene. Lyrics by Andy Jackson Mixed and Mastered by Nick Jackson This song is one of two that feature the phenomenal talents of Mr. Joe Philogene on the Ngoni and percussion. Massive thank you to Joe...

Money Pwease - Cosmic Bos from the upcoming album 2 A.M, it's Mission Time Coming 19th August 2022 Andy and Nick ponder the big question on everyones mind, how do we get money? As musicians, it's a tough one indeed, no one wants to part their hard earned money for music anymore, it truly isn't like the good old days when people actually spent money on music. But it isn't only music that has suffer...

Hello friends, The Summer of Bos is here, and we have plenty in store for you. So we picked up a Judges Choice Award in the Lights and Lines Album Writing Club challenge, which is a wonderful endorsement of what we have been doing. Coming on the 19th August 2022 we will release '2 A.M, it's Mission Time' to the world. The full 12 track album will be available on all good platforms, with something...

Catch a Clue - Cosmic Bos Second song released from our upcoming album '2 A.M, it's Mission Time'. This one comes with a special video we made for it. Video starring Andy Jackson & Nick Jackson Special cameo appearance by Theodore Jackson at the end Using the karaoke booth set up, the boys performed the task of singing this wordy song, several times, getting progressively more inebriated on the wa...

Isle of Avalon - Cosmic Bos Nick and Andy made 12 songs for their Album in a month Album, the catalyst for the albums theme was Glastonbury, in particular Glastonbury Tor, the ancient ruins at the top of a hill, which may or may not have the Holy Grail stored in, protected by Fairies.  When we took up the challenge, I (Andy) was in Glastonbury with family, for a medieval festival at Glastonbury Ab...

Cosmic Bos have offered up their podcasting space to present the Singles playlist in full, all 26 artists that submitted Singles from their Albums/EP's made in May. From the Lights and Lines playlist: Singles submitted as part of the Lights And Lines Album Writing Club. Independent artists from around the world signed up to write an album or an EP each in 1 month. Each artist was also given the op...

To accompany our most recent podcast episode 'Making of an Album Episode 3: Alternative Writing Techniques' we decided to throw together a song using our new improv squared method of song construction. The song we put together was this one, 'The More You Learn, The Less You Know'. https://cosmicbos.libsyn.com  - check out our podcast, even though this very thing you are reading is the podcast, ple...

Welcome to Episode 3 of our Making of an Album series For this episode, Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) take you through a selection of alternative writing techniques, discussing The Beatles contribution to the world of songwriting, in particular their later more experimental work, to the general explosion of alternative techniques of music creation that came about in the 1960's. After that, Cosmic Bos...

Cosmic Bos presents 'Sir, France is 'cross the Sea, See' Music by Nick and Andy Jackson Lyrics by Andy Jackson and Google Translate So we had this song, where it is half in French and half in English, and it's pretty silly, but also educational in some sense, and as fans of the Euro experiment (please don't Boo!) and in particular the melting pot of ideas and life approaches that it welcomed, we w...

Cosmic Bos present to you Improv Squared: Petite Champignon de Lumiere Andy and Nick oversee the journey through the improvised (and then re-improvised) lands, with special guests : Joe Philogene (tracks 1,7 & 10), Dayne Howcroft (tracks 2 & 11), Chris Mace (tracks 5 & 6), Donny Stax (track 8), Ram Dass (track 10) and the Cosmic Bos Family Choir (track 1). Tracklist: Champignon, Lumiere Faded Memo...

Vaccine - Cosmic Bos Taken from the upcoming album Improv Squared: Petite Champignon de Lumiere Music by Chris Mace, Nick Jackson & Andy Jackson Lyrics by Andy Jackson Video by Abigail, Andrea, Andy & Nick Jackson Please like, share and subscribe And comment, what do you think ? Are we the virus?      

Forever Bruised began life as a poem written by Dayne Howcroft, Andy and Nick from Cosmic Bos, wrote music to go with it, and in this single take performance the song was captured. Please like, share and subscribe Forever Bruised is part of Cosmic Bos Improv Squared album which is coming on the 1st April. It contains the other 3 singles previously released (Faded Memories, Ensemble Story & Astral...

Welcome to Episode 2 of our Making of an Album series This episode is about writing, in particular, traditional forms of song writing, examining the songwriting process from the angle of songwriters. Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) collectively have several hundred songs to their names, and here they breakdown the fundamentals of songwriting, examining structure and form, before writing a song in front...

Astral Underwear - Cosmic Bos From the upcoming album Improv Squared - Petit Champignon de Lumiere  Andy and Nick created this song using improvisation layering, the beat, bass and synth were played in first round, then vocals and more synth, then backing vocals. Filming each round, the video was made by boxing up the performance and overlaying some stock footage. The lyric was prewritten by Andy...

Ensemble Story - Cosmic Bos Written and recorded by Andy and Nick Jackson This song was one of the very first experiments in improv(squared) music creation. By improvising a 4 minute sound bed, Cosmic Bos layered on Guitar and Synth, followed by Bass and Vocal, and finally Backing Vocals, to create their 'Ensemble Story'. Nick and Andy filmed themselves doing this, and that is what you are seeing...

How does one make an album? That is the question at the heart of this special podcast presentation, and Nick & Andy from Cosmic Bos are going to break it down for you, from writing the songs, to demo stage, full recording and producing, before tackling making music videos and finally releasing the finished album. It will hopefully be a wonderful experience for all, and we shall learn along the jou...

Faded Memories - Cosmic Bos Music by Andy & Nick Jackson Lyrics and Artwork by Dayne Howcroft This is our first single from our upcoming album project Improv2, this is the double A side with 'Ensemble Story' which will be in the podcast feed ahead of the first episode of our Season 4 special presentation 'Making of an Album'. Starting 2022 off with a funky banger, 'Faded Memories' was a poem that...

Cosmic Bos Live #1 (2021) Joe Philogene - Ngoni and Percussion  Nick Jackson - Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals Andy Jackson - Acoustic Guitar and Vocals Tracklist:    Take it Easier Sunrise Reflections Intentionally Bad Decisions Space Babies Perplexed Rainbow Appearing Ignore the Alarm Just before Christmas, on the 18th December '21, Cosmic Bos got together to record their live set, and this i...