Below is something I posted this summer on Facebook, and I've just now gotten around to posting it here. The CD is still unavailable, though I hope to make it available soon. You can listen to the tracks here, though.

I finally finished a CD, and like it enough to put it online. The title track is a piece I originally wrote back when I was a student at Frontier School of the Bible. I prayed one night that if God wanted me to spend much of my life writing music, that He'd give me the ability to do it in a way that confirmed it. I believe He did, and the title track is the piece that proved to me that music was going to be a part of my life until the day I die. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it. There are stories behind all of these songs, but I'll be brief for now.

The first nine tracks were written in the past two years, and reflect several different styles that I write in. These were some of my favorite pieces, so I thought it would be nice to rework some of them to sound better. I work use synthesizers and sound samplers at this point and can't afford too much. Still, I make a great deal of effort to have things come across well.

The next six tracks, entitled May, are a symphony dedicated to my least favorite month of the year. Whether it was breakups, divorce between those close to me, or whatever else, this month has always just held a great deal of pain, but I feel in the past year I've sort of overcome a lot of this, so I wrote the symphony to reflect it. It begins with a piece that was never intended to be a part of it, and builds into something dark, mysterious, and finally intense. The ending brings relief to the tension that was building throughout the rest of it.

And the final piece is the title piece I mentioned earlier: Solstice. I named it after a video game on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Part of the drum beat and harmony reminded me of it as I was writing, so the name stuck ever since. It was the first piece I ever wrote where I heard every little piece in my head beforehand, and after hearing it performed by my computer, couldn't believe I had written it.

This CD is normally sold on Lulu.com (just search for Joshua Postema or Solstice). Its unavailable for now until I tweak a few things about the design of the case, etc. I'll update when it becomes available.

I hope you enjoy it!