Prelude Peter A.N. Bosman was born on Christmas day, December 25th, 1975. For his 12th birthday he was given his first keyboard, a silver Yamaha SHS-10. After building serious interest in playing the keyboard, a decision for taking music lessons was made. To be able to do so properly, Peter invested in a larger keyboard with large keys, a Roland E-10. Also at this time, Peter became inspired by some of the great synthesizer musicians like Vangelis, Jan Hammer and Jean-Michel Jarre. In the eight years that followed, Peter learned to play many different music styles. During this time, he upgraded his Roland E-10 to a Roland E-70. Mysteries In the last few years of his music lessons, Peter increasingly showed interest in composing music to express his feelings and tell stories with his music. To be able to give more shape to this interest, he bought a music workstation, a Roland XP-50, containing the latest sounds of that time. Inspired at the same time by the pop-music performers of the late eighties and the beginning of the nineties, Peter started to write and compose his first songs. One summer, he wrote "Mystery Girl". The writing and composing of this song would later turn out to mark a defining moment in Peter's music career. After finishing "Mystery Girl", Peter wanted to continue writing and composing until he would have enough material to put on a CD. In the years that followed, he created the songs that are now on the "Mysteries" CD. Playing the keyboard and studying a variety of music types led to a style of playing that allowed Peter to manipulate different sounds in a different way, using the same keys. He played the drums, bass, guitar, organ, strings, piano and lead sounds until all songs were completely arranged. With a background in instrumental music, Peter created a crossover between his interest in the popular music of that time and his initial background in synthesizer music. This crossover came about by replacing all parts that are typically sung in popular music by the playing of lead instruments by Peter himself. At age 22 he took his music to a professional sound studio (New Road Studios), had Italian designer Cesare DeRossi design the covers for the booklet and the CD and so the dream called "Mysteries" became reality with a CD-launching concert on June 4, 1998, celebrating 10 years of making music. Journey to Salvation In the aftermath of "Mysteries", much changed. Starting a full-time job kept Peter from regularly investing time in his music. After a few brief successes based on "Mysteries", his music seemed to die a silent death. Still, in the seven years that followed, Peter kept investing in his music whenever possible, extending his library of available sounds with new sound modules (a Korg TR-RACK and a Roland M-BD1) and a new controller-keyboard with piano-like weighted keys, a Roland A-90. Peter always felt that "Mysteries" never became exactly what he wanted it to be. Although the people at New Road Studios delivered a professional piece of work, the sound that Peter had originally intended for the CD was not brought about, simply because it was too expensive to invest more studio time. Therefore, Peter wanted to expand his knowledge to include mixing, recording and finalizing as well. Over time, he invested in high-end recording equipment to make way for the dormant dream in the back of his mind: to make a new CD, but this time with all the detail and the sound exactly like he wanted it. And so, his own recording studio was born: The Mysteries Studio. In these first seven years, Peter wrote only four new songs. It was with the last of these songs that Peter specifically started to write for a new CD. This time, he wanted to make all-instrumental synthesizer music only. Still, although the idea of making a new CD was now more alive than ever, the feeling wasn't yet right. There was no sense of direction for the CD. Just when the entire project seemed to slowly fade away, after a hard period in his life, Peter found himself writing a song that would later turn out to mark a defining moment. The song, called "Journey to Salvation" was Peter's first track in the style of the synthesizer music that originally inspired him. But much more than this, the emotions he put into the song provided him the direction he was waiting for. As time went by, the music under his hands matured and the new direction led Peter to come home to his original inspiration: synthesizer music. He wrote five songs the next year and six in the one following that, leading up to the total of 16 tracks on the new CD called "Journey to Salvation". The final song he composed for this CD is called "Live Your Dreams". That title was actually the first concept he thought of after "Mysteries". Now it had become an important statement: live your dreams, never give them up, don't ever stop. In his own home studio, The Mysteries Studio, Peter mixed, recorded and finalized "Journey to Salvation". Celebrating yet another decade of making music gone past, this time the sound was just what Peter always wanted his music to sound like. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Peter+Bosman">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.