Journey Into The Morn is a

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Iona Iona (; , sometimes simply ''Ì'') is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It is mainly known for Iona Abbey, though there are other buildings on the island. Iona Abbey was a centre of Gaeli ...

. Released in 1996. It was their first studio album since Beyond These Shores in 1993. Recordings were based in the north of England again The Soundfield, Derbyshire with audio engineer Neil Costello, with some additional recording at Perfect Sounds, Thornton, Nr. Bradford.

Personnel

Band *

Joanne Hogg Joanne Hogg is a Northern Irish musician, best known for her work as the lead singer and songwriter with the Celtic Christian progressive rock band Iona. Early life and education Hogg was born in Ballymena to a family of medical missionaries ...

- vocals, guitar *

Dave Bainbridge Dave Bainbridge is an English guitarist and keyboard player who has played with The Strawbs since 2015 and Lifesigns (band), Lifesigns since 2016. With Dave Fitzgerald, Dave co-founded the Christian progressive rock, progressive and Celtic fo ...

- guitars, keyboards, e-bow guitar,

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

mandola The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola ...

Tim Harries Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior. The band were part of the 1970s British folk revival, an ...

- bass, vocals *

Terl Bryant Terl Bryant is an English drummer, percussionist and musician who has produced a number of his own works and is credited for touring and recording with John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Iona and Peter Murphy amongst others. Biography Originally ...

- drums, percussion *

Troy Donockley Troy Donockley (born 30 May 1964) is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of Uilleann pipes. Having performed with many artists as a session player, he is most notable as a member of Finnish symphonic metal ba ...

uilleann pipes The uilleann pipes ( or , ), also known as Union pipes and sometimes called Irish pipes, are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Their current name is a partial translation of the Irish language terms (literally, "pipes of the ...

, low whistles, tin whistle, vocals, whitby shell chimes * Mike Haughton - saxophone, flute, tin whistle, vocals Additional musicians and special guests *

Máire Brennan Moya Brennan (born Máire Philomena Ní Bhraonáin on 4 August 1952), also known as Máire Brennan, is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist. She is the sister of the musical artist known as Enya. She began performing pr ...

- Celtic harp, vocals *

Robert Fripp Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. He has worked extensively as a session mu ...

- guitar synth,

Frippertronics Frippertronics is a tape looping technique used by English guitarist Robert Fripp.Fricke, David"Electronic Music and Synthesizers", ''Synapse Magazine'', Vol. 3 No. 2, Summer 1979. It marked the first real-time tape looping device, evolving from a ...

on "Divine Presence" and "The Search" * Peter Whitfield - violins, viola * Chris Eaton - additional backing vocals

Track listing

Disc - Total Time 78:14 #" Bi-Se I Mo Shúil" Part 1 – 2:06 #"Irish Day" – 5:14 #"Wisdom" – 4:58 #"Everything Changes" – 5:34 #"Inside My Heart" – 6:09 #"Encircling" – 11:41 #"Journey Into the Morn" – 2:58 #"Lindisfarne" – 6:30 #"No Heart Beats" – 4:49 #"The Search" – 2:42 #"Divine Presence" – 5:29 #"Heaven's Bright Sun" – 7:26 #"Bi-Se I Mo Shuil" Part 2 – 4:33 #" When I Survey" – 8:05

Release details

*1996, UK, Alliance Records ALD 050, Release Date 20 February 1996, CD *1996, UK, Alliance Records ALC 050, Release Date 20 February 1996, Cassette *1996, U.S., Forefront Records FFD-5142, Release Date 20 February 1996, CD *1996, U.S., Forefront Records FFC-5142, Release Date 20 February 1996, Cassette *2005, UK, Open Sky Records OPENVP9CD, Release Date 5 November 2005, CD

References

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