''It's About Time'' is the second and final album by British-American
electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
duo Tonto, previously known as
Tonto's Expanding Head Band, released in 1974 by
Polydor Records
Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group. It has a close relationship with Universal's Interscope Geffen A&M Records label, which distributes Polydor's releases in ...
. The album is a showcase for TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), a multitimbral,
polyphonic
Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ...
synthesizer built by the two members of the band,
Malcolm Cecil
Malcolm Cecil (9 January 1937 – 28 March 2021) was a British jazz bassist, record producer, engineer, electronic musician and teacher. He was a founding member of a leading UK jazz quintet of the late 1950s, the Jazz Couriers,[Robert Margouleff
Robert Margouleff is an American record producer, recording engineer, electronic music pioneer, audio expert, and film producer.
Career The Birth of TONTO
Margouleff was an early customer, friend and collaborator of fellow New Yorker and music ins ...]
, as a developed version of the
Moog III synth in 1969.
Track listing
Side one: Face Up
# "Beautiful You" – 5:44
# "Tonto's Travels" – 8:25
# "Nil Desperandum" – 5:50
Side two: Pyramid Suite: The Pharaoh's Journey From Death To Life
# "The Boatman" – 5:06
# "Building the Pyramid" – 3:40
# "Journey To the West" – 8:28
# "Forty-Nine Judges/Bird Flies Free" – 2:24
Personnel
*
Malcolm Cecil
Malcolm Cecil (9 January 1937 – 28 March 2021) was a British jazz bassist, record producer, engineer, electronic musician and teacher. He was a founding member of a leading UK jazz quintet of the late 1950s, the Jazz Couriers,[Steve Gadd
Stephen Kendall Gadd (born April 9, 1945) is an American jazz fusion drummer, percussionist, and session musician. Gadd is one of the best-known and most highly regarded session and studio drummers in the industry, recognized by his induction i ...]
– drums
*Armand Habdurian – percussion
*
Marlo Henderson – guitar
*Mike Hules – executive producer
*
Robert Margouleff
Robert Margouleff is an American record producer, recording engineer, electronic music pioneer, audio expert, and film producer.
Career The Birth of TONTO
Margouleff was an early customer, friend and collaborator of fellow New Yorker and music ins ...
– composer, engineer, producer
*
Reggie McBride – bass
*Joan Nielsen – illustrations, layout, lettering
*
Tama Starr – art direction, associate producer
References
1974 albums
Tonto's Expanding Head Band albums
Science fiction albums
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