'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 PURCHASETHE NEW ALBUMBYTODD COCHRANentitledFrom The Vault: Notes For The FutureBlue Buddha Productions |Release Date: June 23, 2023To 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 INFORMATIONABOUTTODD COCHRANVISITwww.toddcochran.comOfficial websitewww.facebook.com/toddcochranmusicFacebookwww.instagram.com/toddcochran_musartInstagramhttps://twitter.com/CochranMusartTwitterwww.youtube.com/channel/UC0pJUL4z18tA02LdgQkQa_wYouTube TODD COCHRANDISCOGARAPHYwith AUTOMATIC MANAlbums1976: Automatic Man1977: Visitors with FUSE ONEAlbums1980: Fuse One        1981: Silk1984: IceCompilation albums1989: Fuse One: The Complete Recordings      As solo artist1972: Worlds Around the Sun (Prestige) 2014 Reissue1973: Seeking Other Beauty1991: TODD1997: Secret Places1998: Melrose Place Soundtrack, She Is Gentle Rain1999: A Voice In The Forest, Colour Naturelle2023: From The Vault: Notes For The Future As collaborator1971: Intensity - John Klemmer1972: Head On - Bobby Hutcherson1972: Iapetus - Hadley Caliman1974: Love, Love - Julian Priester1975: Rebirth Cycle - James Mtume1976: Automatic Man - Automatic Man1976: You to Me Are Everything - The Real Thing1977: Visitors - Automatic Man1977: Spellbound - Alphonso Johnson1978: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel1979: Slug Line - John Hiatt1979: I Wanna Play for You - Stanley Clarke1979: Betcha - Stanley Turrentine1979: Touching You, Touching Me - Airto Moreira1980: 1:PM - PM1980: Aretha - Aretha Franklin1980: Fuse One - Fuse One1981: America's Greatest Hero - Joey Scarbury1982: H.A.T.E. Don't Live Here Anymore - Staple Singers1982: Hollywood - Maynard Ferguson1983: Home Again - Stanley Turrentine1984: Sunrise - Paulinho Da Costa1985: Put Sunshine In It – Arthur Blythe1986: Headed For The Future - Neil Diamond1987: Strawberry Moon - Grover Washington Jr.1988: Out of Control - Dynasty1989: Through The Moving Window - Juan Martin1989: Times Are Changing - Freddie Hubbard1991: Animal Logic II - Animal Logic1993: Now and Then - Ernestine Anderson1995: What´s Inside - Joan Armatrading2000: The Friends - Fishbone2004: Trios: East River Drive/Schooldays/Live at the Greek - Stanley Clarke2005: Blue Note Plays Sting - Freddie Hubbard2005: Robbery - Teena Marie2005: Very Best of George Howard - George Howard2007: Moodo Records Presents Guitarra de Pasion, Vol. 3 - Juan Carlos Quintero2008: Believe It or Not: The Billy Griffin Collection - Billy Griffin Support us on PayPal!