Formation · Music

CIAN Collective

CIAN Collective is a nonprofit Trinitarian gospel-music platform. It organizes Christian music by lineage and era rather than by modern genre.

Listen on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab)

CIAN Collective is a separate 501(c)(3) from Christ In All Nations, EIN 39-2389476.

New recordings

By CIAN Collective.

  1. I Am the One You Love on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) , 4:02
  2. Skin and Glory on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) , 4:09
  3. The Wedding Of The Worlds on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) , 4:39
  4. Found Before I Was Lost on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) , 3:53
  5. Awake, My Love on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) , 3:48
  6. Co-Crucified, Co-Raised on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) , 4:28
  7. Nothing Can Separate on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) , 5:45

Seven eras of Christian song

From the first century to today.

  1. 1st – 3rd centuries Apostolic and Early Church on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) New Testament canticles, earliest Christological hymns, and Paschal fragments in Greek and Syriac.
  2. 4th – 7th centuries Patristic and Conciliar on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) Nicene doxology, Byzantine, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopian and Latin lineages take shape.
  3. 8th – 15th centuries Medieval and Monastic on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) Plainsong, monastic offices, Byzantine chant, mystical poetry, and early vernacular sacred song.
  4. 16th – 17th centuries Reformation and Confessional on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) Lutheran chorale, metrical psalmody, Anglican hymnody, and Catholic devotional renewal.
  5. 18th – 19th centuries Awakening, Mission, and Spirituals on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) Methodist hymnody, revival song, African American spirituals, and global missionary hymnody.
  6. 20th century Modern Global Gospel on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) Black gospel, Pentecostal worship, African Independent Church music, and worldwide praise movements.
  7. 21st century Living Global Worship on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab) Multilingual, diaspora, and cross-cultural worship — including new arrangements of inherited texts.

Lineages

An era is a period. A lineage is an inheritance, handed from one generation to the next.

Albums

The Collective records in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Make the cosmic Christ audible.

CIAN Collective · Read the mission on ciancollective.org (opens in a new tab)