TONTO'S EXPANDING HEAD BAND is an innovative project by electronic composers and sound-engineers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, having an influence on different other references or an diverse artists. The innovation is the instrument itself, "The Original New Timbral Orchestra", which is the first multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizers and still the largest, design print of Malcolm Cecil (who had serious engineering background) and, since Robert Margouleff sold him the ownership, private owner of it and its performance. The project of the entire instrument system started back in '69 or '68 by Margouleff's MoogIIIc and Moog modules, then with New Timbers and modularly transformed, Serge, Oberheims and Arps, polyphonic instruments, finishing mostly in 1970. Recent additions include SEMs and EMS gear, finally to go on digital sequencers Vocoders. The sounds and sensations of its effective instrumentality are considered, up to date, impossible to replicate from newer midis, digitals and samplers. Malcolm Cecil was awarded one or two times with Grammy for engineering performance, as was also Robert Margouleff. The duo set on the early 70s with the applauded effort of "Zero Time" (1971), drawing the style of warmness and musicality, advancing already in the generation. Steve WONDER can be considered the main artist which was influenced, then involved with TONTO on later works ("Music of My Mind"," Talking Book", "Innervisions", "Jungle Fear"), Cecil and Margouleff being associate producers and programmers. TONTO stopped existing for themselves after a second album, in 1975, "It's About Time", still co-featured or collaborators or a large scale of projects, going onto pop (Quincy JONES, Bobby WOMACK) or white rock (Steve HILLAGE), into the concept's changing (Dave MASON) layers or the notes of improvisation (WEATHER REPORT). The synthesizer system got used in "Phantom Of The Paradise", a film by Brian De Palma. For the most recent attitude, the duo came back with an album re-discovering and re-interpreting the "Zero Time" album and passages from "It's About Time" (a great move mainly considering the out of print originals). The modern interest somehow arouses at times, festivals including the repertoire of their music, dedications towards their style, art pieces even full invitations of TONTO performances ("Virtual TONTO live" in August 2006) In music, TONTO has the in disguisable effect of experimentalism and open "samplitudes". The result of the 1971 album is actually different that the main music the electronic range (or disambiguation, for that matter) went over back them. The 1975 creation is even more plastic. The albums are mainly a gesture of interpretative forms taken experimentally and, as alluded, expanded. TONTO'S EXPANDING HEAD BAND deserves a place in the style and the reflection of electronic history. Line-up / Musicians Malcolm Cecil/keyboards,programmers,origin Robert Margouleff/keyboards,programmers,origin Discography(Album) Zero Time 1971
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