The Gardeners
Cliff Morgan: Vocals, Eletric Piano, Keyboards, Harmonica
Gregor Stevens: Guitars, Slide Guitar, Background vocals
Pat Rudford: Drums, Percussion, Rhythm Track
Nick Willys: Bass, Guitars
National Philharmonic Orchestra on 'The Time's Over' and 'Onion Stones Forever'
National Philarmonic Orchestra conducted by Burt Bacharach
Strings Arrangement by Gilles Martin, Gregor Stevens, Cliff Morgan and Burt Bacharach
Produced by Gregor Stevens and The Gardeners
Executive Producer: Anthony Johnson
Production Assistant: Kenny Gullicher
Assistant Engineers: Christian Mattews, Robbie Cartwood and Hundryll Smith
Recorded at Savvey Road, Abbey Road and Goldbridge Farm
Mixed at Savvey Road and Abbey Road
Mastered by Gilles Martin at Abbey Road
Art Direction/Design: Terry Vucovsk
Band Photos: Chase Richard
Morgan Photos: Yanna Mason
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Stuffed with nostalgia, melodies and romantic letters, THE TIME'S OVER is the disc that states the return of The Gardeners to Great-Britain and studios after an almost three years interval. The setbacks series suffered by the group since Yellow Cover Tour's end as manager Chris Bodan's arrest, Mike Gradas's exit and the intense relationship of Cliff Morgan with Yanna Mason presented to public a band completely different which had made its last presentation in July, 2006. The autonomy that so much Cliff like Gregor obtained in their parallel projects for this time were driven for the atmosphere of The Gardeners with Cliff filming some video-clips and Gregor producing the album. This ended up generating an intransigent dispute by control of the band during for the whole period of rehearsals and recordings creating a climate unfriendly still worsened by Nick Willys's return. All these factors contributed to a melancholic disc and full of high and low concluded two months after the period foreseen by the label. The song-title 'The Time's Over' got to be among Top #5 Europe but for many people it already sounded as an alert for The Gardeners were with its counted days, although it presented a well finished arrangement of strings with the special participation of National Philharmonic Orchestra as well as in 'Onion Stones Forever', parodied title of 'Strawberry Fields Forever' by The Beatles and relative to an existent park in Welwyn Garden City. The 08 million sold copies it owe much more to the fact of awaiting for such long time THE MAN OF YELLOW COVER successor than for own merits of the work. The nostalgic wave of Cliff and Gregor it is present in songs as 'Park Play', a reference at childhood age in WGC, and 'However' that Gregor would have written supposedly to Brian Stanley, dead in 2006. Even so the most constant presence in the album are romantic songs especially because of Cliff Morgan. They are direct influences of the affair Morgan & Mason tracks like the strong 'Loving Intensely' and the broken-hearted 'Blue Sky'. They give a positive connotation to the love which wasn't characteristic of the vocal. Other love-songs punctuates work as 'You Just Don't Understnad Me' and acoustics 'Rare Jewels' and 'Badness' showing a romantic-nostalgic tonic seems to have been the best way for Cliff and Gregor didn�t expose their differences. When the couple supplanted barrier got to present some different songs as the loaded 'Fire Circles', the pop-romantic 'Little Romance' and well-produced 'Tales and Stories' chosen by Morgan as his favorite music. In THE TIME'S OVER little space remains for The Gardeners from other eras. 'Drops Trotter' with its infantile humor and 'The Rights Are Humans' with its sagacious critic to the United Nations remember to the first works of the group but pass impression of they be out of context. The spirit of The Gardeners is more in agreement with 'The First Day of The Rest of Our Lives' as well as theme-music it leaves the sign that the time was overing for The Gardeners.
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