Time to Think is Mo Foster's

Mo Foster

Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and rock bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...

 third solo album.

Most of the tracks were written whilst Mo was on a trip to New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

. The album was conceptualised as a soundscape of acoustic instruments and to that end was recorded in a small Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....

 church, picked because of its beautiful acoustics. Mo describes it as "evoking memories of friends, sunshine, long journeys and laughter".

Track listing

1. "Its About That Time of Day" – 5:29
2. "Leo" – 5:37
3. "Omapere Dawn" – 4:35
4. "On Frith Street" – 5:42
5. "Mangonui" – 6:27
6. "Guardians" – 5:59
7. "Waves II" – 1:48
8. "Shades Of Grey" – 3:49
9. "Let's Go On Somewhere" – 5:38
10. "The Long Man of Wilmington" – 6:16
11. "A Notional Anthem" – 5:05
12. "Time to Think" – 3:32

Personnel

• Mo Foster
  Mo Foster
  Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and rock bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...
  
   - Bass Guitar, Fretless Bass, 5-String Bass
• Ray Russell
  Ray Russell (musician)
  Raymond 'Ray' Russell is an English session musician who is primarily a guitarist. He is also renowned as a record producer, composer and session musician....
  
   - Acoustic Guitar
• Simon Chamberlain - Grand Piano, Church Organ
• Frank Ricotti
  Frank Ricotti
  Frank Ricotti is an English jazz vibraphonist and percussionist.Ricotti played in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra while a teenager, then attended Trinity College of Music...
  
   - Vibraphone, Percussion
• Iain Ballamy
  Iain Ballamy
  Iain Ballamy is a British composer, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone player.- Career :Ballamy was schooled at 1975-80 George Abbot School, Guildford. He then studied Musical Instrument Technology from 1980-1982 Merton College...
  
  - Soprano Saxophone