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

## 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 – composer, engineer, producer
* Michael Cembalo – guitar
* Joan Decola – mixing assistant
* Steve Gadd – drums
* Armand Habdurian – percussion
* Marlo Henderson – guitar
* Mike Hules – executive producer
* Robert Margouleff – composer, engineer, producer
* Reggie McBride – bass
* Joan Nielsen – illustrations, layout, lettering
* Tama Starr – art direction, associate producer
