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Hungry For Heaven
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Hungry
For Heaven: A Musical Opus
This project is an
internet collaboration of David Gómez Sanz (Segovia, Spain), Alberto Ayuso Domingo (Segovia, Spain)
and Richard Cecil Schletty (St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.). Hungry For Heaven is an hour-long
concept album which deals
with evil, suffering,
the silence of God, the restless spirit, faith, salvation, selfless
love, Christian discipleship, and the necessity of right relationships
with the
hierarchy of creation.
Music styling ranges
from classic orchestral to acoustic folk to celestial to progressive rock.
The vocal stylings, spanning bass to tenor registers, are gritty
yet soothing (like wet sand in the palm of your hand). Sometimes folk-like, sometimes operatic, always engaging. Words can be understood.
Commentary by David:
"Hungry for Heaven" is a journey of the human being through basic and primitive questions. The searching for the answers beyond our physical existence. The silence of God, man facing death, life after life. Once a man is aware of his finitude, does everything reach a meaning?
Some people are blessed with the grace of joy while others are still looking for a light in the darkness. Some people find strength in the pain while others find sharks in a pool. The incomprehensible reasons for our suffering are washed away in the Cross of Jesus Christ. Our pain is the pain of God. And He cures the scars of our souls. He embraces our perfect imperfections.
Hungry For Heaven is about our claim to the sky, our cry to the infinite horizon. In our hunger, can we come to feel His presence?
– David Gómez Sanz
Music ©2007-2016 David
Gómez
Sanz, Alberto Ayuso Domingo and Richard C. Schletty
Photographs by David
Gómez
Sanz
Webmaster: Richard C. Schletty
hosted by Schletty Design
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Lyrics and notes |
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Notes |
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3-11-2016. Posted new version of Movement 7: Lift Me Up. See MP3 player at left. New lyrics here |
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2-29-2016. Five of eleven movements have been rearranged, rerecorded and mastered. Movements 1, 2, 3, 5 and 11. |
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3-6-2012. David and Alberto have been re-recording the instrumental soundtracks. Richard will be re-recording voices. |
1st Movement - Overture to Transcendence
See lyrics |
4-2-2007. After several weeks
of pondering the task of overlaying David's wonderful
instrumentation with voice, I have finally taken a
stab at it. I am using the lyrics I wrote earlier.
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2nd Movement – Pour It Out
See lyrics
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4-26-2007. The lyrics that
were originally written in a more formal style were
modified
to plainspeak. |
3rd Movement - Knock Upon Your Door
See lyrics
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5-8-200. Lyrics written
and recorded in one day. |
4th Movement - Up From Death
See lyrics
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10-18-2007. Lyrics written
and recorded over a period of six months. |
5th Movement - The Joy of Grace
See lyrics
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11-7-2007. Where did the new music for the 5th movement come from?
David sent a track to me a few months ago. He came up with
it on the Feast of the Assumption, August 15, 2007. He
called it "The Joy of The Grace" and suggesed
it might be added to the HFH song cycle. |
6th Movement – The Gateway
See lyrics
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4-21-2008.
This movement is a litany of praise. It will have additional
voices besides those of Richard. |
7th Movement - Lifting
See lyrics
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10-22-2007.
This movement rocks. He imagines himself running to the
edge of the escarpment, then being caught in the love of
the Spirit which lifts him to the mountain top. |
8th Movement - The Hard Road
See lyrics
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10-26-2007:
Richard remembers a book he read, in his youth, with an especially
poignant passage: "In
time, you will realize that you've denied yourself nothing." |
9th Movement - I Am the Way
See lyrics
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4-7-2008.
He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. |
10th Movement - Realization
See lyrics
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4-17-2007.
The search is at a climax. Just listen to David's bagpipes!
That is powerful good stuff. |
11th Movement – New Eyes, New Light
See lyrics
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6-12-2009. This is the conclusion of the search. It began and ended
with the miracle of new life: the "blessing of tissue." |
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