Time is the Key

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Time is the Key
Studio album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong
Released	1979
Label	Arista Records
Pierre Moerlen's Gong chronology
Downwind (1979) Time is the Key (1979) 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.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Ard Na Greine" (Irish for "Height of the Sun")
2. "Earthrise"
3. "Supermarket"
4. "Faerie Steps"
5. "An American In England"
6. "The Organ Grinder"
7. "Sugar Street"
8. "The Bender"
9. "Arabesque Intro"
10. "Arabesque"
11. "Esnuria, Part Two"
12. "Time is the Key"

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

[edit] 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.