Holiday post-partum (two trance songs without words)

I’m in a holiday post-partum kind of mood. I made two trance songs about it that don’t have any words. Some of it has to do with the holidays passing too quickly; some of it has to do with feeling generally lost and discouraged with regard to my writing. Making trance music is a lot like blogging about esoteric theological topics. You spend hours and hours honing your craft to produce something that very few people will ever listen to. Professional trance music is filled with intricacies and subtleties that I don’t have the attention span or stamina to put into my songs. That’s why nothing will ever come of them. So here are my holiday post-partum trance songs. I would like to do a voice-over reading a psalm or something, but nothing comes to mind. If you happen to listen, I would be grateful for any suggestions you have.

Holiday post-partum 1

Holiday post-partum 2

If I were to make a Christian hip-hop/electronica album…

Then my artist name would be εξουθενημενος and my album would be בן בלי שם (both of these words roughly translate to “The Nobody” because God refines my art by making people ignore it). I used to have a rock band seven years ago called the Junior Varsity Superheroes. I learned how to navigate the local rock scene and we did pretty well. Hip-hop is very much a second language to me; I learned how to rap because I was a youth pastor. I have little interest in mainstream hip-hop. I’m more interested in pursuing what it was originally: a genre geared to social critique (KRS-1, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, etc). The 16 tracks I have shared below may appeal to the micro-constituency of people who are trying to recover from the phenomenon known as evangelical Christianity.

Our Father	Jesus Come Back
Jesus Is My Candidate	Jesus Save the World from Me
Kayal Ta-arog (Psalm 42)	The Script
Exposure	Isaiah 6
Jeremiah	The Lord Is My Shepherd
Star Spangled Banner	This Is My Father’s World
Zion	Hate
1 John	Satan