Pre-Order: Iona - Limited Blue Vinyl (Blue) [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] (Uk) - Iona

Limited colored vinyl edition. Newly remastered for it's first-ever vinyl release and includes 7 bonus tracks and stunning new artwork in a 2-disc gatefold sleeve format. After a terrible battle which claimed the lives of 3,000 people and for which he himself felt responsible, Columba, an Irish monk of Kingly descent, vowed that he would win for Christ as many souls as had been slain. Setting sail one day in 563AD, Columba went into exile, never again to set eyes on his beloved Ireland. Landing on the small island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, he established a place of prayer and learning, from which many of the Celtic peoples of Scotland and Northern Britain were to be converted to an earthy, real, humble, yet deeply spiritual form of Christianity that now seems more relevant than ever to a world that seems to have lost it's sense of the mysterious. Iona, the Tir-Na-Nog of legend, 'The Island of the Forever Young' (and later the burial place of many kings including possibly MacBeth) and her sister isle, Lindisfarne (off the north-eastern tip of England) have been described as places where the veil between heaven and earth is particularly 'thin'. This album (newly remastered for vinyl from the original master tapes, and now also including additional mixes and bonus tracks) seeks to put into words and music the landscapes and atmosphere of these uniquely spiritual places.