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Leave It Open is the fifth studio album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong. It was released in 1981.[1]

Leave It Open
Studio album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong
Released	1981 (1981)
Recorded	Stars & Stripes, London
Genre	Jazz rock, progressive rock
Length	38:15
Label	Arista
Producer	Pierre Moerlen
Pierre Moerlen's Gong chronology
Time Is the Key (1979) Leave It Open (1981) Breakthrough (1986)

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.

The album features the American jazz saxophonist Charlie Mariano, the band's only album to do so, and was their last release for a major label.

Track listing

Personnel

Pierre Moerlen's Gong

• Pierre Moerlen – drums, vibraphone, gong, keyboards, synthesizer bass, rhythm guitar
• Hansford Rowe – bass, rhythm guitar
• Bon Lozaga – guitar
• François Causse – percussion, drums

Guest musicians

• Charlie Mariano – saxophone (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Demelza – congas (1)
• Brian Holloway – rhythm guitar (2)

Production credits

• Nick Bradford – assistant
• Gordon Johnson – assistant
• Ian Jones – assistant
• Graham Lawson – executive producer
• Keith Moore – assistant
• Sheila Rock – photography

References

• Macan, E. L., Macan, E. (1997). Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. Germany: Oxford University Press. p. 243
• https://www.allmusic.com/album/leave-it-open-mw0000447018

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