Today's featured LP - TONTO's Expanding Head Band. (1975 Atlantic issue of the Zero Time Embryo LP from '71)
"The Original New Timbral Orchestra," is the first, and still the largest, multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer in the world.
For those not familiar with this marvelous behemoth, you've heard it before, on Stevie Wonder's records from Electric Lady Studios, (most notably on "Superstition") as well as albums by Quincy Jones, Bobby Womack, The Isley Brothers, Gil Scott-Heron, Weather Report, Steve Stills, The Doobie Brothers, Dave Mason, Little Feat and Joan Baez (just to name a few!)
Pictured below are a few of the records which feature TONTO, including the soundtrack to Brian Depalma's cult film, The Phantom of the Paradise."
It took writing this post for me to discover that so many of the records on my shelves were touched by this synth - so THANK YOU!
And here's a lovely documentary excerpt all about TONTO. Enjoy!