ONCE UPON A TIME.....Automatic Man

 

AUTOMATIC MAN  Automatic Man  (Island,1976) - Art/Prog/Jazz


     Automatic Man consisted of four people. The self-titled debut album featured a stellar lineup: Keyboard player and singer Bayete Todd Cochran was the front man. San Francisco Bay area musician Doni Harvey played bass, Pat Thrall on guitar and ex-Santana percussionist Michael Shrieve on drums.
     Their self-titled debut album Automatic Man was probably the band's high mark, in my opinion it was one of the finest albums of the fusion era, possibly equalling Return To Forever's classic Romantic Warrior. Unfortunately, it sold diddly, so copies are extremely rare today. Side A is the "funky" side, opening with Bayete's "Who's gonna be the one", a rather hot funk piece. and Doni Harvey's "My Pearl". Side B featured the spacey side, and was much harder, toward the acid end of jazz. Tunes like Bayete's "Interstellar Tracking Devices", "Atlantis Rising" and the title cut "Automatic Man" were very much in the spacerock genre. But this album just plain rocks! The rythmn section drives the band, Bayete shows real expressiveness on synth and Pat Thrall really, really burns it up. In my opinion, his solo on "Automatic Man" might be the greatest guitar solo ever played. Certainly it is the greatest solo no one ever heard.

TRACKLIST : Atlantis Rising-Fanfare
                   Comin' Through
                   My Pearl
                   One And One
                   Newspapers
                   Geni Geni
                   Right Back Down
                   There's A Way
                   ITD (Interstellar Tracking Devices)
                   Automatic Man
                   Atlantis Rising Theme (Turning Of The Axis)

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