''The Circling Hour'' is a
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
album by
Iona
Iona (; gd, ÃŒ Chaluim Chille (IPA: ˆiËˈxaɫ̪ɯimˈçiÊŽÉ™, sometimes simply ''ÃŒ''; sco, Iona) is a small 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 ...
, released in 2006. It marked a return to the studio for the band after a break of nearly six years to record a full album.
Track listing
#"Empyrean Dawn" – 7:49
#"Children of Time" – 5:33
#"Strength" – 5:59
#"Wind off the Lake" – 11:02
#"Factory of Magnificent Souls" – 5:02
#"Sky Maps" – 6:39
#"No Fear in Love" – 5:59
#"Wind, Water & Fire - Wind" – 3:30
#"Wind, Water & Fire - Water" – 3:00
#"Wind, Water & Fire - Fire" – 7:14
#"Fragments of a Fiery Sun" – 2:45
Personnel
Band
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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 and pop band Iona (named after the island Iona).
Early life and education
Hogg's father is a Presb ...
- lead and backing vocals, choir chorus, keyboards
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Dave Bainbridge
Dave Bainbridge is an English guitarist and keyboard player who has played with The Strawbs since 2015. With Dave Fitzgerald, Dave co-founded the Christian progressive and Celtic folk themed band Iona.
Biography
Born in Darlington, Engla ...
- electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, bouzouki, choir voices, Hammond organ, wind chimes, high-strung acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, piano, e-bow guitars
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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, low and high whistles, tofran, bouzouki, vocals, choir voices, e-bow guitar, slide guitar
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Frank Van Essen
Iona was a progressive Celtic rock Christian rock band from the United Kingdom, which was formed in the late 1980s by lead vocalist Joanne Hogg and multi-instrumentalists David Fitzgerald and Dave Bainbridge.Phil Barker
Phil Barker (born 5 November 1932) is one of the major figures in the development of the modern hobby of miniatures wargaming, tabletop wargaming, particularly that of ancient warfare, and is a co-founder of the Wargames Research Group.
In the 1 ...
- bass guitar
Additional musician and special guest
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Heather Findlay - vocals (on" Fragments of a Fiery Sun")
Production
*Recorded between July 2005 and March 2006 at Open Sky Studio, Lincolnshire, England, and Studio Frank van Essen, Drachten, Holland
*Additional recording at Waterworld, Yorkshire, England
*Hammond organ and piano recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire, England (engineer Will Bartle)
*Digital transfers made at DB Studios, Lincoln, England
*Recorded by Dave Bainbridge, Frank van Essen and Troy Donockley
*Produced by Dave Bainbridge
*Mixed by John Kellogg with Dave Bainbridge and Troy Donockley, at Immergent Studios, Los Angeles
*Mastered by
Denis Blackham
Denis Blackham (born in 1952) is an English music mastering engineer. He began his audio mastering work in 1969 at IBC Studios in London, and later worked for Polygram, RCA, The Master Room, Nimbus Records, Tape One and George Peckham, Porky's ...
, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Release details
*2006, UK, Open Sky Records OPENVP11CD, release date September 2006, CD
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Circling Hour, The
Iona (band) albums
2006 albums