Personnel

• Keith Relf
  Keith Relf
  Keith William Relf , was a musician best known as the lead singer and harmonica player of The Yardbirds. After the Yardbirds broke up Relf formed the acoustic duo Together, with fellow Yardbird Jim McCarty, followed by Renaissance, which also featured his sister, singer Jane Relf, then hard rock...
  
   - vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Jim McCarty
  Jim McCarty
  Jim McCarty is an English musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance.-Early life:...
  
   - percussion, vocals
• John Hawken
  John Hawken
  John Hawken John Hawken John Hawken (born John Christopher Hawken, 9 May 1940, at Christchurch General Hospital, Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset) is a British keyboard player. He studied classical piano between the ages of four and eighteen at which point he succumbed to the lure of rock and roll...
  
   - piano, harpsichord
• Louis Cennamo
  Louis Cennamo
  Louis David Cennamo was bass guitarist with an early line up of The Herd, the original line-up of Renaissance and later Colosseum, Steamhammer, Armageddon and Illusion . He also worked with Jim McCarty in Stairway. The song "Bullet", on the first Renaissance album, includes an extended...
  
   - bass
• Jane Relf
  Jane Relf
  Jane Relf is the younger sister of Keith Relf of the Yardbirds. After the Yardbirds disbanded, Keith formed Renaissance and Jane joined on vocals. After Keith's death the surviving members of Renaissance reformed as Illusion, under which name they recorded two albums with Jane's vocals to the fore...
  
   - vocals, percussion

"Island" single

The single version of "Island" (a different recording from the album version, with faster tempo, more overdubbed backing vocals, and no classical themes at the end) was backed with a non-LP B-side, "The Sea." Some CD editions of the album include both of these tracks.

Releases

Renaissance was initially released in the UK in 1969 by Island records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

 as catalogue ILPS 9112; it was also released in America on Elektra and by Island in Germany) as 87 609 ET.

In 1998 Renaissance was reissued by Mooncrest Records

Mooncrest Records

Mooncrest Records is a British record label that was formed in 1973 as a subsidiary of Charisma Records.They issued albums by Shirley Collins , Iain Matthews , Shakin' Stevens and Alan Hull . More recently they have handled Fairport Convention and Michael Chapman...

 (U.K.) as Innocence. This reissue included six bonus tracks, but the packaging included no explanation of what they were. Besides "Island" (single version) and "The Sea" (see above), there were the following:

• "Shining Where The Sun Has Been": Pre-Renaissance demo (1968) recorded by Keith & Jim under the name "Together."
• "Prayer For Light" & "Walking Away": Tracks recorded, post-Renaissance, by Keith & Jim (written & sung by Jim) for the unreleased 1971 film Schizom.
• "All The Fallen Angels": Demo, 1976. Keith's final recorded performance.

On 29 November 10, Esoteric Recordings

Esoteric Recordings

Established in 2007, Esoteric Recordings is a UK independent record label specialising in 70s progressive rock, folk, psychedelic and jazz-rock reissues as part of the Cherry Red Records umbrella of imprints...

releases a remastered and expanded edition (including both sides of the band’s first single)