it's about time TONTO

so i apologize for my lack of blogging the last couple months. been busy with house remodeling etc anyway i'm back with it so let's do this.

here is a pretty cool little album by Tonto (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) formerly known as Tonto's Expanding Headband. pretty much a synthesizer duo from the early 70's. their first album Zero Time (as Tonto's Expanding Headband) is pretty incredible and easy to find on the internet and well worth it. Where that one was a lot more psychedelic and kraut influenced, this album, It's About Time, is a quite a bit cheesier but not necessarily in a bad way. much more new age and poppy. but the B side "Pyramid Suite" is kinda incredible and definitely is an influence on some of the modern synth meisters and even sorta techno lite. pretty rad stuff.

so Tonto is also the name of the actual synthesizer that Malcolm Cecil (1/2 of the group) built. it was the first (and still the largest) multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer. crazy. also both members of the group Cecil and Robert Margouleff have worked with the synthesizer and produced a ton of Stevie Wonder's music from Music of My Mind all the way up to Jungle Fever!! Ha. Regardless....this is fun synth stuff that might not be groundbreaking but is still well worth a listen. right here.