'Automatic Man' Legend Todd Cochran Releases Brilliant New Soundscapes!

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.

Automatic Man Legend Todd Cochran Releases “From The Vault: Notes For The Future”

Todd Cochran is an American pianist, composer, keyboardist, electronic musician, and conceptual artist. Early in his career he was also professionally known as Bayeté. Cochran started his career as a teenager with saxophonist John Handy. Two years later he joined vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s Quartet and made his jazz recording debut composing and performing on a benchmark album for Hutcherson, “Head On” (Blue Note Records). Cochran’s first solo project “Worlds Around the Sun” became a #1 jazz album. From the mid-1970s forward Todd has experimented with and incorporated synthesizers, electronic and mixed-media concepts in his creative projects while collaborating with a wide range of artists in the genres of jazz, art rock, pop, R&B, and twenty-first-century classical.

Todd released two albums on Prestige Records in 1972 and 1973. He was keyboardist, principal composer, and lead singer of Automatic Man from 1976–1978 which also featured drummer Michael Shrieve (shreeve) and guitarist Pat Thrall. He was also a member of Fuse One, a coalition of jazz musicians who released two albums on CTI Records in 1980 and 1981. The shortlist of his collaborations includes Peter Gabriel, Joan Armatrading, Maya Angelou and Stewart Copeland.

PLEASE WELCOME PROFICIENT PIANIST/MULTI-INSTRIMENTALIST/BANDLEADER/COMPOSER/PRODUCER WHO WAS ALSO KEYBOARDIST AND LEAD VOCALIST FOR SAN FRANSICO PROGRESSIVE ROCK GROUP AUTOMATIC MAN AND THE JAZZ GROUP FUSE ONE …TODD COCHRAN TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

 

PURCHASE

THE NEW ALBUM

BY

TODD COCHRAN

entitled

From The Vault: Notes For The Future

Blue Buddha Productions |

Release Date: June 23, 2023

To pre-order: Bandcamp: https://bluebuddha.bandcamp.com/

Notes for the future are the “imagined sometime in the past” tropes of a storyteller. Freed from every day “isms” of convention and released from the symbolic containment of the vault, the music is an allegorical exploration in futurism. The stream running throughout the musical narrative is a speculative commentary about our human search for meaning, and we’re reminded that as a version of our ancestors’ vision, this quest never ends.

“From The Vault” is structured around a sequence of recurring themes and develops as an unfolding tour of references, hints, and clues. Moving from one perspective to another, we connect with how our planet is perpetually in a state of seeking solutions. Within the soundscape, without words, an underlying language is speaking. Nature evolves for the sum of us, not the few. We are in a continual state of becoming. We are connected. Love is passed along, as is happiness. Nevertheless, expressly for the listener, an implied sense of reasoning encourages us to feel free and let go of all things familiar. And then, “over there” in the distance, we get a passing glimpse of the sacred structure.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

TODD COCHRAN

VISIT

www.toddcochran.com

Official website

www.facebook.com/toddcochranmusic

Facebook

www.instagram.com/toddcochran_musart

Instagram

https://twitter.com/CochranMusart

Twitter

www.youtube.com/channel/UC0pJUL4z18tA02LdgQkQa_w

YouTube

 

TODD COCHRAN

DISCOGARAPHY

with AUTOMATIC MAN

Albums

1976: Automatic Man

1977: Visitors

 

with FUSE ONE

Albums

1980: Fuse One        

1981: Silk

1984: Ice

Compilation albums

1989: Fuse One: The Complete Recordings     

 

As solo artist

1972: Worlds Around the Sun (Prestige) 2014 Reissue

1973: Seeking Other Beauty

1991: TODD

1997: Secret Places

1998: Melrose Place Soundtrack, She Is Gentle Rain

1999: A Voice In The Forest, Colour Naturelle

2023: From The Vault: Notes For The Future

 

As collaborator

1971: Intensity - John Klemmer

1972: Head On - Bobby Hutcherson

1972: Iapetus - Hadley Caliman

1974: Love, Love - Julian Priester

1975: Rebirth Cycle - James Mtume

1976: Automatic Man - Automatic Man

1976: You to Me Are Everything - The Real Thing

1977: Visitors - Automatic Man

1977: Spellbound - Alphonso Johnson

1978: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

1979: Slug Line - John Hiatt

1979: I Wanna Play for You - Stanley Clarke

1979: Betcha - Stanley Turrentine

1979: Touching You, Touching Me - Airto Moreira

1980: 1:PM - PM

1980: Aretha - Aretha Franklin

1980: Fuse One - Fuse One

1981: America's Greatest Hero - Joey Scarbury

1982: H.A.T.E. Don't Live Here Anymore - Staple Singers

1982: Hollywood - Maynard Ferguson

1983: Home Again - Stanley Turrentine

1984: Sunrise - Paulinho Da Costa

1985: Put Sunshine In It – Arthur Blythe

1986: Headed For The Future - Neil Diamond

1987: Strawberry Moon - Grover Washington Jr.

1988: Out of Control - Dynasty

1989: Through The Moving Window - Juan Martin

1989: Times Are Changing - Freddie Hubbard

1991: Animal Logic II - Animal Logic

1993: Now and Then - Ernestine Anderson

1995: What´s Inside - Joan Armatrading

2000: The Friends - Fishbone

2004: Trios: East River Drive/Schooldays/Live at the Greek - Stanley Clarke

2005: Blue Note Plays Sting - Freddie Hubbard

2005: Robbery - Teena Marie

2005: Very Best of George Howard - George Howard

2007: Moodo Records Presents Guitarra de Pasion, Vol. 3 - Juan Carlos Quintero

2008: Believe It or Not: The Billy Griffin Collection - Billy Griffin