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. Cochran’s first solo project “Worlds Around the Sun” became a #1 jazz album. 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 started his career as a teenager with saxophonist John Handy. Early in his career he was also professionally known as Bayeté. Todd Cochran is an American pianist, composer, keyboardist, electronic musician, and conceptual artist. And then, “over there” in the distance, we get a passing glimpse of the sacred structure. Nevertheless, expressly for the listener, an implied sense of reasoning encourages us to feel free and let go of all things familiar. Nature evolves for the sum of us, not the few. Within the soundscape, without words, an underlying language is speaking. Moving from one perspective to another, we connect with how our planet is perpetually in a state of seeking solutions. “From The Vault” is structured around a sequence of recurring themes and develops as an unfolding tour of references, hints, and clues. 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. Freed from every day “isms” of convention and released from the symbolic containment of the vault, the music is an allegorical exploration in futurism. Notes for the future are the “imagined sometime in the past” tropes of a storyteller.
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