Time Is the Key

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Music ratings Time is the Key is the fourth album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong. It was released in late 1979 by Arista Records.

Featuring an all-instrumental jazz-driven sound, notable for the prominent use of vibraphone, it has little to do with the psychedelic space rock of Daevid Allen's Gong, even though the two bands share a common history.

It features the English jazz keyboard player Peter Lemer on most tracks, their only album to do so, and Allmusic notes that there is also a progressive rock influence on the album, particularly on the first two tracks.

Personnel

Pierre Moerlen's Gong

• Pierre Moerlen – drums, vibraphone, gong, electravibe, marimba, glockenspiel, tympani, darbuka, synthesizers (7, 8)
• Hansford Rowe – bass (3−11), acoustic guitar (5), bass synthesizer (11)
• Bon Lozaga – guitar (3−11)

Former Pierre Moerlen's Gong

• Allan Holdsworth – lead guitar (9−11)

Additional personnel

• Darryl Way – violin (1)
• Joe Kirby – double bass (1, 2)
• Peter Lemer – keyboards (3−11), Polymoog (6−10)
• Nico Ramsden – lead and rhythm guitar (8)

Produced by Pierre Moerlen

Production credits

• Engineering – John Rollo
• Mastering – Ray Staff at Trident
• Photography – Jay Myrdal and Sheila Rock
• Sleeve layout and design – Steve Ridgeway and Julie Harris
• Additional engineer – Brian Risner
• Studio co-ordination – Brian Risner

References

• Macan, E. L., Macan, E. (1997). Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. Germany: Oxford University Press. p. 243