The Eye Of The Eagle is an album by Dave Bainbridge

Dave Bainbridge

Dave Bainbridge is a keyboard player and guitarist who with Dave Fitzgerald co-founded the Christian progressive and Celtic folk themed band Iona.-Biography:...

 and Dave Fitzgerald

Dave Fitzgerald

Dave Fitzgerald is a woodwind player who plays saxophones , flutes, whistles and clarinet. With Dave Bainbridge he co-founded the influential Christian progressive and Celtic folk themed band Iona...

. Released in 1998.

Renowned flute and saxophone player Dave Fitzgerald

Dave Fitzgerald

Dave Fitzgerald is a woodwind player who plays saxophones , flutes, whistles and clarinet. With Dave Bainbridge he co-founded the influential Christian progressive and Celtic folk themed band Iona...

was a founding member of Iona

Iona (band)

Iona is the name of a progressive Celtic 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....

, but left to pursue classical music studies. After completing his master's degree in music he began recording collaborative projects with fellow musicians, revealing his love of the liturgical tradition. Teaming up with fellow ex-Iona member Dave Bainbridge

Dave Bainbridge

Dave Bainbridge is a keyboard player and guitarist who with Dave Fitzgerald co-founded the Christian progressive and Celtic folk themed band Iona.-Biography:...

 (guitar, keyboard), and using wind and reed instruments as voices, together they provide a meditative backdrop for the reading of poetry by Anglican Canon Dave Adam. The theme of Adam's work, rooted in Celtic spirituality

Celtic Christianity

Celtic Christianity or Insular Christianity refers broadly to certain features of Christianity that were common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages...

, is awareness of God's presence in the mundane affairs of everyday life.

Track listing

1. "Open My Eyes" – 6:14
2. "Fire And Water" – 4:03
3. "Hymn Of The Universe" – 8:32
4. "Though The Dawn Breaks" – 4:18
5. "Upon A Path Of Light" – 2:11
6. "A Further Shore" – 4:54
7. "I Arise Today (Through The Strength Of Heaven)" – 2:34
8. "The Lightener Of The Stars" – 3:59
9. "On The Wings Of The Morning" – 5:45
10. "King Of Moon, Sun And Stars" – 7:19
11. "Caim" – 1:59
12. "A World Within A World – 10:52

Band

• Dave Bainbridge
  Dave Bainbridge
  Dave Bainbridge is a keyboard player and guitarist who with Dave Fitzgerald co-founded the Christian progressive and Celtic folk themed band Iona.-Biography:...
  
   - Keyboards, Piano, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bouzouki, Star Bells, Indian Bells, Vocal and Choral arrangements
• Dave Fitzgerald
  Dave Fitzgerald
  Dave Fitzgerald is a woodwind player who plays saxophones , flutes, whistles and clarinet. With Dave Bainbridge he co-founded the influential Christian progressive and Celtic folk themed band Iona...
  
   - Soprano, Alto and Tenor Saxophones, Flute, Chinese Flutes, Irish Whistles, Flageolet
• Máire Brennan
  Moya Brennan
  Moya Brennan, born Máire Ní Bhraonáin , also known as Máire Brennan , is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist who began performing professionally in 1970, when her family formed the band Clannad, and is now widely considered as the "First Lady of Celtic Music"...
  
   - Vocals
• Shona MacDonnald - Vocals
• Scott Farrell - St. Edmundsbury Cathedral Organ
• St. Edmundsbury Boys Choir - Choir
• David Adam - Poetry and Narration (on the narrated version only)

Recording details

• Cambridge House
  Cambridge House
  Cambridge House is a grade I listed mansion on the northern side of Piccadilly in central London, England. It was built for Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, by architect Matthew Brettingham in 1756-1761. It was initially known as Egremont House. The house is in a late Palladian style. It has...
  
  , Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England
• Millennium Studio, Scotland
• Castle Sound, Scotland
• Visions of Albion, Yorkshire, England
• St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Suffolk, England

Release Details

• 1998, UK, Kingsway Music KMCD2152, Release Date ?? 1998, CD (with narration by David Adam)
• 1998, UK, Kingsway Music KMC2152, Release Date ?? 1998, Cassette (with narration by David Adam)
• 1998, UK, Kingsway Music ?, Release Date ?? 1998, CD (without narration)
• 2000, USA, Rhythm House Records RHR ?, Release Date ?? 2000, CD (with narration by David Adam)