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Hackett has been prolific in recent years, but this was always going to be the big one.
These lockdown instrumental pieces, based on Iona tracks, are part of over nine hours of bonus material in the band’s box set The Book of Iona.
Family Time
Feeling the Son after four seasons of winter
A wave of well-crafted music… 
A collection of sophisticated songs that are well written, beautifully performed, and ready to sweep you away to another place
a non-stop joy-fest from the five musicians onstage - a treat for the eyes and ears with waves of intricately-layered music and vocals
The hour-plus Sola Gratia is technically immaculate and not without its fair share of emotional highlights
Iona peer Hubble-like further into the unseen and give us a sonic Dali landscape painted by Turner: inspired, evocative, and yet conveyed with a breathy mistiness.
Stryper makes metal great again - maybe they’ll make a believer out of you...
This may be surprisingly sub-par for Iona, but its Celtic moments make it well worth its place in the box set.
Music
- Bryant, Danny– Means of Escape
- Cohen, Avishai – Big Vicious
- Dave Brons – Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
- Deacon Blue – City of Love
- Dion - Blues With Friends
- Dion – Blues with Friends (Walker)
- Flying Colors - Third Stage: Live in London
- Flying Colors – Third Degree
- Frye Family Band - Things Unseen
- Gallagher, Rory – Check Shirt Wizard, Live in ’77 (2CD)
- Gigspanner Big Band – Natural Invention
- Gillette, Eric - A New Day
- Glass Hammer - Dreaming City
- Hackett, Steve – Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings Live at Hammersmith
- Harper, Tori - Selah EP
- Iona – Another Realm (7)
- Iona – Beyond These Shores (3)
- Iona – Journey into the Morn (4)
- Iona – Open Sky (5)
- Iona – Snowdonia (8)
- Iona – The Book of Iona (1)
- Iona – The Book of Kells (2)
- Iona – The Circling Hour (6)
- Iona – The Sound of Iona (9)
- Ivers, Eileen– Scatter the Light
- Izz - Half Life
- Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble – Remember Me, My Dear
- Kaprekar’s Constant – Depth of Field
- LaHaie, Perry - Him
- McMillan, John Mark - Peopled with Dreams
- McStine and Minnemann - self / titled
- Morse / Portnoy / George - Cover To Cover Anthology (Volumes 1-3)
- Morse, Neal - Sola Gratia
- Neal Morse Band, The - The Great Adventour
- Planetshakers - Glory Pt 2 EP
- Player A - Sand Dollar in My Suitcase
- Pyramid Park – Not an Island
- Redman, Matt– Let There be Wonder
- Renzema, Chris - Let the Ground Rest
- Rizzo, Justin - Paid It All EP
- Rose, Deborah – The Shining Pathway
- Schlitt, John - GO
- Schlitt, John - GO
- Simple Hymns: Songs of Communion
- Stryper - Even The Devil Believes
- Sweet Invention - Streaming Out the Day
- Tangerine Dream – Recurring Dreams
- The Brilliance – Suite No. 2: World Keeps Spinning
- The Haar – The Haar
- The Jayhawks – XOXO
- Unspoken - Reason Deluxe
- van Essen, Frank – Meditations of a Sound Mind, vol.1
- Vox Clamantis – The Suspended Harp of Babel
- Wakeman, Rick – The Red Planet
- Walsh, Sheila - Braveheart Worship
- Watkins Family Hour – Brother Sister
- Whitehouse, Dan – Dreamland Tomorrow
- Yates, Ian - Mystery
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