Description
Salvation is Created, sub-titled A Christmas Record from Bifrost Arts, is a multi-artist compilation released on Great Comfort Records in November 2009. The album was produced and arranged by Isaac Wardell and Mason Neely.
This Bifrost Arts album was preceded by a compilation released the same year entitled Come Oh Spirit! Anthology of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Volume 1, and followed by He Will Not Cry Out: Anthology of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Volume 2 and Lamentations: Simple Songs of Lament and Hope, Volume 1.
Having brought something new and fresh to worship music with the groundbreaking ‘Come, O Spirit‘ album, this collective of musicians now turn their attention to Christmas music. On the whole there’s much to be enjoyed and the singers and musicians here show a sensitivity and flair a million miles from the mawkish sentimentality which drags down so many Christmas projects. The standouts for me were «Let All Mortal Flesh» featuring Elin K Smith with a haunting vocal and an exquisite string quartet arrangement and the moving title track where piano and strings gracefully wrap around the vocal of Aimee Wilson. Not everything works, the version here of «O Little Town Of Bethlehem» is dull, while the arrangement of «Messiah» featuring Robert Heiskel is too skeletal for my tastes. But on the whole, this is a creative shot-in-the-arm for Christmas CDs. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, January 2010]
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CD tracklist:
01. Various Artists – O Come O Come Emmanuel (Instrumental) – 2:18
02. Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri – Joy Joy!!! – 5:14
03. Ben + Vesper – Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella – 2:40
04. Sarah Fullen – O Little Town of Bethlehem – 3:47
05. Elin K. Smith – Let All Mortal Flesh – 3:34
06. Robert Heiskel – Messiah – 3:49
07. Diane Birch – Silent Night – 3:28
08. Derek Webb and Evan Gregory – Out of Heaven – 3:44
09. Matt Bauer and Maeve – Veiled In Darkness – 5:19
10. Aimee Wilson – Salvation Is Created – 6:46
Note: Available at Bandcamp: https://bifrostartsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/salvation-is-created
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