How One Songwriter Turned the Bible Into Music: Joshua Leventhal on Tapiseri Volume 1

Joshua Leventhal, a very special welcome back to the Soros podcast.

I have been looking forward to this conversation for the last couple of weeks, especially as I've had an opportunity to dig into an upcoming project that is now released at the time of this interview coming out.

But I have been changed by your music.

So thank you and

welcome back to the show.

Man, thank you for having me back.

I've been getting excited too, just because of your idea for the format of this.

I think that's such a, I don't want to use the term novel concept because novel can cheapen it, I think, but like intriguing to somebody like me who, you know, often doesn't have such unique concepts and formats given for interviews.

So I'm very excited.

Well, the first time we hung out and I had you on the podcast, we talked about lament.

We talked about writing music unto the Lord that isn't neat music that you just kind of put a bow on, but is music that digs deep into themes that we find in books of the scriptures like Lamentations and otherwise.

So for some people listening, it may have felt like a bit of a weeds conversation.

So why would we switch it up? Because today what we're going to do is we're going to talk about this new album that you've released.

And we're going to do it a little bit for some of our listeners that maybe follow like Apple Music and there's an interviewer by the name of Zane Lowe.

And he really kind of goes track by track with an artist through their albums.

And so I want to give you the opportunity to do that.

But for our listeners that may not be familiar yet with Joshua Leventhal, why don't you tell us a little bit about your music journey and specifically this project that we are talking about today?

Yeah, so I've been writing songs since my teens, and I wasn't really musical until my teens, but I don't remember not knowing Jesus.

It's like one of these weird things where...

It predates my memory, His grace.

And so I've always considered myself a disciple first, everything else second.

And I don't just say that because discipleship preceded music.

I think that should just always be the case for believers.

But I started writing music in my teens, not seriously, just kind of as I felt and when expression, that kind of thing.

And then after high school, kind of in my post-secondary, got more serious about songwriting, felt called to worship ministry.