It's About Time (Tonto's Expanding Head Band album)

It's About Time is the second and final album by British-American electronic music duo Tonto, previously known as Tonto's Expanding Head Band, released in 1974 by Polydor Records. The album is a showcase for TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), a multitimbral, polyphonic synthesizer built by the two members of the band, Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, as a developed version of the Moog III synth in 1969.[3]

It's About Time
Studio album by
Released1974
Genre
Length39:37
LabelPolydor
Producer
Tonto chronology
Zero Time
(1971)
It's About Time
(1974)

Track listing

Side one: Face Up

  1. "Beautiful You" – 5:44
  2. "Tonto's Travels" – 8:25
  3. "Nil Desperandum" – 5:50

Side two: Pyramid Suite: The Pharaoh's Journey From Death To Life

  1. "The Boatman" – 5:06
  2. "Building the Pyramid" – 3:40
  3. "Journey To the West" – 8:28
  4. "Forty-Nine Judges/Bird Flies Free" – 2:24

Personnel

References

  1. Gulla, Bob (2008). Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm, Volume 2. Westport: Greenwood. pp. 316–317. ISBN 978-0313340468. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  2. Collins, Nick; d'Escrivan, Julio (9 November 2017). The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107590021. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  3. "Tonto: It's About Time". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2020.


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