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Hungry For Heaven: A Musical Opus This concept album 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. Music ©2007-2012 David
Gómez
Sanz, Alberto Ayuso Domingo and Richard C. Schletty
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| Lyrics and notes | |
| Title | Notes |
| 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. |
| 2nd Movement – Pour Heaven on Me See lyrics |
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 |
5-8-200. Lyrics written and recorded in one day. |
| 4th Movement - Up From Death See lyrics |
10-18-2007. Lyrics written and recorded over a period of six months. |
| 5th Movement - The Joy of Grace See lyrics |
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 |
4-21-2008. This movement is a litany of praise. It will have additional voices besides those of Richard. |
| 7th Movement - Lifting See lyrics |
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 |
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 |
4-7-2008. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. |
| 10th Movement - Realization See lyrics |
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 |
6-12-2009. This is the conclusion of the search. It began and ended with the miracle of new life: the "blessing of tissue." |