Bayete Umbra Zindiko is keyboardist Todd Cochran, and vice versa. A cult figure that I've been investigating lately, Cochran has worn many musical hats, from being a sideman in Bobby Hutcherson's group to leading prog-funk band Automatic Man with original Santana drummer Michael Schrieve. The two Bayete albums he recorded for Prestige are incredible, blistering slabs of dark fusion and modal searching, somewhere between John Coltrane and Funkadelic, strange as that may sound. On "Seeking Other Beauty," Cochran devours the inside and outside of the music with his assaulting array of keyboards, creating sounds that are truly unique, standing apart from anything in my previous audio palate, and you know with my omnivorous tendency towards music that's a bold thing for me to say. Either way, check this shit out--dude's tone on the distorted clavinet is beyond grungy, it's no-wave noise death that old school New York punks would envy. This cat was out to lunch.
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