Album Of The Day: Journey Into The Morn by Iona

Album Art of Iona's Journey Into The Morn album - The background looks like a purple ground, an orange skyline, maybe a sunset, and greyish-purple clouds at the top. Over most of the background is a clear globe, which distorts things. Inside this globe can be seen a photo of six people, a woman on the left and 5 men, most looking off in the distance. The globe kinda distorts their photo as well. Behind the band can be seen a Celtic calligraphy design of some sort, maybe a cross.

Released 30 years ago today in North America and a few months earlier in the UK, this is the fourth album by Celtic progressive rock band Iona. It's a beautiful, cinematic 78 minutes of music, including guitar, drums, pipes, and of course singer Joanne Hogg's heavenly vocals. Most of the songs on this album contain some vocals and are not just instrumentals, but certainly not all. Many of the song lyrics contain religious themes, but also contain references to places and life in Ireland. It's a beautiful album, though nor my favorite album of theirs, and runs the gamut from serene instrumentals and vocals to a bit more raucous guitars, keys and all-out rock, sometimes even a choir. There's definitely some Gaelic lyrics too. The album ends with a beautiful, 8-minute version of "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross", a classic English hymn. This is often the soundtrack to reading a book on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon for me and I love this band's work. Included here is the original album art featuring a band photo and the newer artwork for the band's 2009 independent re-release.

Release Year: 1995
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Album Art of Iona's Journey Into The Morn album re-release - A photo of an ancient stone cross through a circular portal of some sort. The edges of the portal are blurry, and the color of the stone seems to be shades of purple somehow. Printed on top of the photo in the center towards the top is the band's name in a white, handwritten-style font, their normal word mark. And printed at the bottom middle is the album title in a sans-serif font, thin and white, all in lowercase.

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