Atmosphere of Heaven

Track Listings

1. Atmosphere of Heaven

2. Power to Change

3. You're Always with Me

4. Precious Heavenly Father

5. The Glory and the Lifter

6. Children of Promise

7. Only the Blood

8. Good News

9. I Don't Worry

10. River from Heaven

11. Secret Place

12. Draw Me

13. Worthy One

14. Beloved of God

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Paul and Susan Hansen

Paul was an itinerant folksinger-songwriter based in the Greenwich Village section of New York City in the late sixties. He also played in a rock band in Illinois for a time. He moved to Atlanta for a while and teamed up with guitarist-songwriter Pat Alger to play clubs and colleges in the Southeastern United States until deciding to bail out of the music scene for a while. Before the Paul left the duo, "Hansen and Alger" played a folk festival in Vermont. This connection eventually led to his meeting his future wife, Susan.

When they met, Susan had just begun to write her own material. Their friendship developed as they gathered often with other musician friends to play old favorites and share original songs in various living rooms, back porches, and fields in Vermont. Although they shared a great love with these wonderful people, a greater love called them to a yet higher destiny. With an even deeper motive than a musical one, they had also been searching for the truth in eastern religions, astrology and the occult.

Their search finally culminated in the realization that Jesus Christ really is the son of God—that He had already bought and paid for their much-needed peace of mind and eternal well-being. Full of joy and excitement over their new discovery, they married and moved to the mid-west for ministerial training. Since that time, they have served in various capacities in churches in Oklahoma, New Jersey and California. They have traveled with their music to England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, France, India, and Costa Rica and have recorded two CDs: "Snapshots of Glory" and "Atmosphere of Heaven." Paul and Susan continue to enjoy writing, recording and sharing their original music and the message of hope and peace—not only through music, but teaching as well. They travel full-time in the United States and overseas and currently reside in Carlisle, Massachusetts.

Album Description
What do you imagine heaven to be like? Peaceful, happy, refreshing, fun? It’s all of these things and more. With an acoustic style laced lightly with influences of folk, rock, jazz—and, at times, country—Paul and Susan Hansen blend their vocal harmonies and unique lyrics into a delightful musical experience, bringing you a refreshing taste of the Atmosphere of Heaven!

Tracks:

Ganapati Om
Om Nama Shivaya
He Ma Durga
Hare Krishna
Govinda Jaya Jaya
Samba Sadashiva
Govinda Jaya Jaya (Mac Quayle Mix)

Amazon.com

Donna de Lory has several solo albums out, but she's still best known as a back-up singer for Madonna, fleshing out choruses since the mid 1980s. There's more than a little bit of Madonna in De Lory's voice, at once fragile and vulnerable, yet still powerful, with a gospel-like yearning. On her own, De Lory has crafted artful pop on albums like Bliss and In the Glow, but she also tends toward the mystical and began incorporating Sanskrit mantras or Kirtans into her songs, a tact culminated on The Lover & the Beloved, a full-fledged Mantra journey. De Lory draws from the golden oldies of mantras, including "Hare Krishna," but revs them up with electronica beats, verse-chorus arrangements, multi-tracked vocals, and electronic textures sprinkled in with the sitars and tablas. Cameron Stone weaves his processed cello through De Lory's melodies and harmonium in serpentine rivulets, tying together the tablas of Girish Gambhira and the answering chants of Kirtan singer, Dave Stringer. Endowed with the materiel girl's sense of pop form and irresistible hooks, De Lory posits a confluence between pop and spiritual music, in which a repeated chorus has the same mantric effect as a chant. Her chants could be hymns to Krishna or a plea to a lover, but they are equally ecstatic and powerful. --John Diliberto

Album Description

These Sanskrit mantras bubble with a groove and atmosphere that takes tradition to heaven and back. Donna's voice resonates with ether and earth, beauty that asks you to join in, become one with the sound of deep celebration.

Customer Reviews:

WOW.......2007-06-26

This is a wonderful CD of chants that are both up to date and ancient at the same time. It is calming to the soul to listen to, and later in the day you will find youself chanting the words.....

Soothing. Peaceful. .......2006-09-12

I love all these songs! Soothing and tranquil.

They last a long time which is perfect for use as background music while working or while chatting with friends.

It makes it easier to relax to the melody,let your cares float away as the music wraps around you.
It's one of my favorites, I'm so glad I took a chance and got this one:)

Amazing Soulful Yoga Music.......2006-03-18

Donna De Lory has a beautiful, soulful voice and her music is perfect to practice yoga to or to unwind and get into that zenlike spirit. I ordered the rest of her CDS.

brilliant masterpiece.......2005-09-12

This album is a brilliant masterpiece. Extremely uncommon music, farly outrunning the present. A listener is experiencing a deep feeling of being, also as each piece here, so long, is being changed several times in movement and style. At this web page the short mp3 shows are only presented in one such a style and movement, more torrential but less oriental. The most varied piece is the last seventh: Govinda Jaya Jaya (Mac Quayle Mix). And what's more, the box for the CD is not the traditional plastic, but it is made quite else and I do not mean to disclose, how. For me it was an eye-opener and I wish you the same excitment. It is no lesser masterpiece than the music itself. So I recommend this album to everybody and thank the authors very much for this great experience. You're real masters.

Just love it!.......2005-04-11

A lovely album. Donna brings a sense of creativity, melody and bkathi (devotion) to each of the songs. It starts with a catchy Ganapathi OM, continuing with the same catchiness with Om Namah Shivaya. He Ma Durga brings out the delicacy of her voice. I loved Govinda Jaya Jaya, which is ideal for a group chant that brings a lot of energy into the singing.

I found all the songs to be melodious. The lyrics are simple for anyone to remember easily. The tune is catchy and lingers on after listening. There is a nice blend of western and Indian instruments providing soothing background music. As in many Indian songs/chants, you will find repetition within each song, which is a nice thing. You probably will not notice it as it encourages you to remember the tune/song much easily.

I use this album in my Yoga classes regularly and come away humming for a long time. Just love it!

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Atmosphere of Heaven
Paul & Susan Hansen
Manufacturer: Water of Life
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006AFEZ
Release Date: 2002-03-20

Tracks:

Atmosphere of Heaven
Power to Change
You're Always with Me
Precious Heavenly Father
The Glory and the Lifter
Children of Promise
Only the Blood
Good News
I Don't Worry
River from Heaven
Secret Place
Draw Me
Worthy One
Beloved of God

Album Description

What do you imagine heaven to be like? Peaceful, happy, refreshing, fun? It's all of these things and more. With an acoustic style laced lightly with influences of folk, rock, jazz—and, at times, country—Paul and Susan Hansen blend their vocal harmonies and unique lyrics into a delightful musical experience, bringing you a refreshing taste of the Atmosphere of Heaven!

Music Album:

Music Album

1. Atmosphere of Heaven
2. Power to Change
3. You're Always with Me
4. Precious Heavenly Father
5. The Glory and the Lifter
6. Children of Promise
7. Only the Blood
8. Good News
9. I Don't Worry
10. River from Heaven
11. Secret Place
12. Draw Me
13. Worthy One
14. Beloved of God