Time is the Key

Infobox Album
Name = Time is the Key
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Pierre Moerlen's Gong


Released = startdate|1979
Recorded =
Genre =
Length =
Label = Arista Records
Producer = Pierre Moerlen
Reviews =
Last album = "Downwind"
(1979)
This album = "Time is the Key"
(1979)
Next album = "Pierre Moerlen's Gong Live"
(1980)

"Time is the Key" is an album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong, issued in 1979.

The album is jazz-fusion and has little to do with the psychedelic space rock of Daevid Allen's Gong, even though the bands share a common history.

Track listing

#"Ard Na Greine" (Irish for "Height of the Sun")
#"Earthrise"
#"Supermarket"
#"Faerie Steps"
#"An American In England"
#"The Organ Grinder"
#"Sugar Street"
#"The Bender"
#"Arabesque Intro"
#"Arabesque"
#"Esnuria, Part Two"
#"Time is the Key"

All tracks by Pierre Moerlen except "An American In England" by Hansford Rowe.

Personnel

*Pierre Moerlen: drums, gong, vibraphone, electravibe, marimba, glockenspiel, tympani, darbourka, synthesizers (tracks 7-8)

*Peter Lemer: keyboards (tracks 3-12), including Polymoog (tracks 6-10)
*Hansford Rowe: bass (tracks 3-12), acoustic guitar (track 5), bass synthesizer (track 11)
*Bon Lozaga: guitar (tracks 3-12)

*Allan Holdsworth: lead guitar (tracks 10-13)
*Darryl Way: violin (track 1)
*Nico Ramsden: lead and rhythm guitar (track 8)
*Joe Kirby: acoustic bass (tracks 1-2)

Produced by Pierre Moerlen. Engineed by John Rollo.