This very special edition: 180 gram, RED vinyl is a limited edition 100 units worldwide.

To avoid disappointment, we strongly recommend pre-ordering, before they are all sold out.

The BOOK of KELLS

This unique album, thought by many to be IONA’s masterwork, has been newly remastered for its first ever vinyl release and includes 4 bonus tracks and stunning new artwork in a 2 disk gatefold sleeve format.

"72 minutes of stunning music, quite unlike anything else you're likely to hear anytime soon."

CCM Magazine, October 1992

"Book of Kells touches something elemental, resonating as few albums can. Allow it to touch you as well."

CCM Magazine (USA), November 1992

"Finally, the most evocative release of all ... Iona's ethereal 'Book of Kells' ... unbelievable."

Billboard (USA), December 1992

“This Book contains the harmony of the four Evangelists according to Jerome, where for almost every page there are different designs, distinguished by varied colours. Here you may see the face of Majesty, divinely drawn. Here the mystic symbols of the Evangelists, each with wings, now six, now four, now two; here the Eagle, there the Calf, here the Man, there the Lion, and other forms almost infinite. look at them superficially with the ordinary casual glance, and you would think it an erasure, and not tracery. Fine craftsmanship is all about you, but you might not notice it. Look more

keenly at it, and you will penetrate to the very shrine of art. You will make out intricacies, so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colours so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all was the work of an Angel, and not of a man! For my part, the oftener I see the Book, and the more carefully I study it, the more I am lost in ever fresh amazement, and I see more and more wonders in the Book.” From ‘Topographia Hiberniae’ of Gerald Cambrensis. 1185 A.D.

SIDE A 1. Kells Opening Theme 2. Revelation 3. Matthew - The Man

SIDE B 1. Chi-Rho 2. Mark - The Lion 3. The River Flows 4. Luke - The Calf 5. Virgin And Child

SIDE C 1. Temptation 2. The Arrest / Gethsemene 3. Trinity - The Godhead 4. John - The Eagle

SIDE D 1. Kells 2. Eternity - No Beginning, No End 3 Mark - The Lion (Alternative intro) 4. Tree Of Life 5. Eternity (New Version) 6. Virgin And Child (Solo Harp)

PERSONNEL:

JOANNE HOGG - Vocals, Keyboards DAVE BAINBRIDGE - Keyboards, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Programming, Chimes DAVID FITZGERALD - Saxophones, Flageolets, Flute, Piccolo, Chinese Flutes, Dizi, Suona NICK BEGGS - Chapman Stick, Bass Guitar, Small Cymbals TERL BRYANT - Drums, Various Percussion

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Frank Van Essen - Additional Percussion, Violin Troy Donockley - Uilleann pipes, Low Whistles Fiona Davidson - Celtic Harp Peter Whitfield Strings - Ensemble Violins, Viola The Congregation of Kensington Temple Church - Heavenly Hosts

Recorded and mixed between January and May 1992 by Nigel Palmer at: Wildlife Studio (Ipswich, Suffolk) Soundtools and ADAP Editing, additional recording at: Studio Two (Leeds, Yorkshire) - engineered by Rob Price

The ‘Heavenly Hosts’ recorded on location at: Kensington Temple Church (Notting Hill Gate, London) - engineered by Nigel Palmer

Remastered for vinyl by Nigel Palmer, Lowland Masters, 2023

Produced by: DAVE BAINBRIDGE

Project Coordination for Open Sky Records: Robin Baxter-Ayling

Project design and sleeve concepts: Dave Bainbridge

Layout and artworks: Michael Inns

Book of Kells images: Trinity College, Dublin