Finders Keepers compiles best of Belgian prog-jazz crew COS

The 14-track COSMIX collection is wisely weighted towards the Brussels anti-pop ensemble's first two mid-70s albums.  

ZIP! POW! POP! CAN? ZAO? NEU? EGG? PIL? AND NOW COS. 

COS might not be the first genre-defying progressive music group you’ve heard of who share both wordless onomatopoeic vocals and a snappy three-letter name (complete with philosophical leanings and alchemic penchants) but on listening to this first-ever custom COS compendium you might have just discovered a potential favourite! Perhaps it’s no coincidence that COS share close spiritual, stylistic and social connections with the aforementioned bands, as one of the few long withstanding single-sylable ensembles to remain utterly idiosyncratic and incomparable in their hyper-focused and impenetrable creative bubble. As a group that effortlessly MIX head-nod prog, synth driven jazz, dislocated disco, archestral operatics and high-brow conceptual anti-pop grooves, it’s easier to just remember the name COS than to thumb the vast amount of genre dividers in your local record shop in which COS could occupy. With the crème de la crème of Belgian jazz, prog, psych and funk within their ranks (Daniel Schell/Placebo/Marc Hollander/Alain Pierre/Brussels Art Quintet), their combined idea-to-ability ratio litters the COSography with concepts that aficionados, future fans, collaborators and critics still haven’t begun to unravel...

Get a copy of COSMIX via Bandcamp right here. Check out a few tracks below. 

COS – COSMIX

1. Oostend, Oostend

2. Postaeolian Train Robbery 

3. Flamboya

4. Nog Verder

5. Mein Maschine Ist Schön

6. Boehme 03:20

7. Halucal

8. Good Wind

9. L'Idiot Léon

10. Babel

11. Einstein, j't'aime

12. Achtung TV-Watchers

13. Amafam

14. Perhaps Next Record