Salvation Is Created: A Christmas Record from Bifrost Arts
Bifrost Arts
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O Come O Come Emmanuel | Bifrost Arts | 2:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Joy Joy!!! (feat. Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri) | Bifrost Arts | 5:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella (feat. Ben + Vesper) | Bifrost Arts | 2:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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O Little Town of Bethlehem (feat. Sarah Fullen) | Bifrost Arts | 3:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Let All Mortal Flesh (feat. Elin K. Smith) | Bifrost Arts | 3:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Messiah (feat. Robert Heiskel) | Bifrost Arts | 3:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Silent Night (feat. Diane Birch) | Bifrost Arts | 3:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Out of Heaven (feat. Derek Webb and Evan Gregory) | Bifrost Arts | 3:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Veiled In Darkness (feat. Matt Bauer and Maeve) | Bifrost Arts | 5:19 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Salvation Is Created (feat. Aimee Wilson) | Bifrost Arts | 6:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Hauntingly Beautiful Christmas Album
I love this Christmas album. The overwhelming feel of this CD for me is haunt. It's dark. Don't let that scare you away! It's unique and beautiful.
Bifrost Arts is "a sacred music non-profit that exists to enrich the church and engage the world with beauty and truth." A variety of musicians are involved including like Sufjan Stevens, Isaac Wardell, Derek Webb, The Welcome Wagon, Denison Witmer, and J. Tillman among many others.
This album is about letting the imagination run to the manger scene, and contemplating the theological and practical realities of God made flesh. Sometimes these realities are captured by marionettes in muted colors on a dimly lit stage. Sometimes they are found in the march of wooden soldiers who never show their faces. Sometimes they are expressed in a solemn dance. This is music more inspired by Tim Burton than Frank Capra. It's the subversion of Christmas as we know it, and it's wonderfully dark.
All of these songs are quite singable in their own way, though at times (Silent Night, for example) not as much as in the traditional versions. With candles lit and friends gathered 'round, I think these songs will make your Christmas more thoughtful, meaningful, and lovely. I'm sincerely thankful for folks like Bifrost Arts who are making winning efforts to restoring beauty and truth to songs we can sing together. And through this album in particular, they help restore the melody of Christmas to sounds of mystery and awe. A sound found in our Scripture but too often missing from our Season.
May your Advent season be haunted by this beauty. Spread it around.
A Haunting Masterpiece
This is, first off, an exceptionally Christ-centered Christmas album. You will not find any of the typically pop standards of Christmas here. Yes, there are a couple of songs you will recognize (“O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Silent Night,” namely). However, these already established Christian carols are given new life, and you will certainly not find yet another cover of “Silver Bells” or “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” No, the featured tracks are songs birthed from the deep Christian wellspring, many drawing on very ancient lyrics, traditions, and sounds, often possessing an inherent chant-like sound.
This is a dark album, no question. A haunting melancholy permeates the entire piece. It is not an upbeat album glistening with chimes, warm strings, and sleigh bells. A large percentage of these songs are in a minor key. The overall atmosphere has a certain loneliness about it. Perhaps this is a Christmas album like the first Christmas night was, cold and lonesome, but filled with hope. These song emit a radiant hopefulness in the mist of darkness. Not unlike our state here on earth. We are awaiting Christ’s return. The “already/not yet” tension is in full force. We are in a fallen world, but living with the hope of the New Creation coming with our Lord.
timeless
This album is beautiful, haunting, and timeless.
