Echoes Podcast – Tonto’s Expanding Head Band

Interview Podcast – Echoes · Jun 19, 2026 · 11m

An Electronic Revolution-Tonto's Expanding Head Band 55th: The Echoes Podcast

It has been 55 years since Tonto’s Expanding Head Band first took flight on the 1971 album, Zero Time. Recorded on their electronic array called TONTO, it predated by years the sequencer-driven recordings of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra, Klaus Schulze’s Picture Music and Kraftwerk’s Autobahn. It was an album of thudding bass grooves, melodic electronic flights and deep ambient expanses, long before any of that became part of the contemporary electronic music vernacular.

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