Hallelujah - The light is in me

\"Hallelujah – The Light Is in Me\" is a collaborative track by Austrian composer and multi-instrumentalist Felix Maria Woschek and Indian classical musician Ustad Sultan Khan. The composition appears as the second track on the album Gospodi – The Light of Christ, released in 1997. The piece spans 7 minutes and 2 seconds, blending elements of Western sacred music with North Indian classical traditions.

The album Gospodi – The Light of Christ emerged as a fusion project that integrated Byzantine chant, Gregorian influences, and Hindustani classical instrumentation. The label and production details remain undocumented in widely accessible sources, but the release circulated primarily on compact disc. Woschek contributed as the primary composer and arranger, while Sultan Khan provided vocals and played the sarangi, a bowed string instrument central to Hindustani classical music.

The track \"Hallelujah – The Light Is in Me\" exemplifies the album’s cross-cultural approach, featuring devotional lyrics in English and possibly liturgical phrases in other languages. Sultan Khan’s improvisational alaap-style vocalizations interweave with Woschek’s harmonic structures, creating a dialogue between Eastern and Western spiritual music. The recording session locations, additional contributing artists, and specific lyrical sources are not publicly verified.

Critically, the album received limited mainstream attention but found an audience among listeners interested in world fusion and spiritual music. No commercial chart performances or certification records exist for the release. The collaboration between Woschek and Sultan Khan marked one of the latter’s fewer ventures into non-classical fusion projects, as Sultan Khan primarily focused on traditional Hindustani performances and film soundtracks throughout his career.