Psychedelic Progressive space music from Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen's Unfolding Skies: Echoes CD of the Month
It’s a progressive rock, space music trip with Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen’s Unfolding Skies, Echoes April CD of the Month. We’ve been following Craig Padilla since the turn of the millennium. He’s put out more than 60 albums, spanning sequencer space music, drone zone and more impressionistic electronic painting, especially through collaborations with the late flute player, Zero Ohms, Richard Roberts. Marvin Allen is less known and not prolific at all. His four recordings to date are all his collaborations with Craig Padilla: Toward the Horizon in 2019, Strange Gravity in 2021 Weathering the Storm in 2023 and now, Unfolding Skies. They’ve gotten together on a sound that is part ambient, part sequencer space music, part Pink Floyd, and part progressive rock with a layer of psychedelia. Take the trip tonight on Echoes from PRX.
| Start Time | Running Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
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| First Half Hour | ||||
| 0:01:00 | 4:23 | Falling You | Throw the Stone | Metanoia |
| 0:06:00 | 5:29 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Undercurrents of Change | Unfolding Skies |
| 0:11:29 | 3:44 | Morcheeba | Pareidolia Master | Escape the Chaos |
| 0:15:10 | 4:42 | SUSS | Sunset VI | Counting Sunsets |
| 0:19:40 | 5:24 | Adam Werner | The Hill in Windham | The Hill in Windham (Single) |
| 0:24:42 | 3:37 | Tom Griesgraber | The Split | The Split |
| 0:29:30 | 0:30 | Deepspace | High Precision Hydrocleansing (excerpt) | Protocols-Water Planets |
| Second Half Hour | ||||
| 0:30:00 | 5:26 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Sun Portal | Unfolding Skies |
| 0:35:25 | 5:10 | Jonny Fallout | The Pain and the Love (Forgotten) | Cybertherial II |
| 0:40:28 | 4:28 | Tauon & Gaia de Isora | Echeyde | Echeyde (Single) |
| 0:44:52 | 0:45 | break | ||
| 0:45:33 | 5:38 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Architects of Time | Unfolding Skies |
| 0:51:01 | 3:53 | Eric Hilton | Akasha | A Sky So Close |
| 0:54:40 | 3:58 | Anvaya | Ud Jaana | Sands Between Us |
| 0:59:00 | 1:00 | Lena Natalia | Afternoon in Oslo (excerpt) | The Time Before Us |
| Third Half Hour | ||||
| 1:01:00 | 5:03 | Saul Stokes | Bursts and Blooms | Vast |
| 1:06:00 | 8:39 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Cosmic Blueprint | Unfolding Skies |
| 1:14:23 | 4:02 | Anna Von Hausswolff | Aging Young Women (feat. Ethel Cain) | Iconoclast |
| 1:18:20 | 3:08 | Steve Horner, Fiona Joy Hawkins | Quickening | Quickening (Single) |
| 1:21:15 | 4:45 | Mara Katria feat. Modern English | Snow | Modern M |
| 1:25:50 | 2:40 | C37 | I Can’t See You | Into thin air |
| 1:29:30 | 0:30 | Jim Kimo West and Michael Whalen | Malibu Breeze (excerpt) | Two Shores |
| Fourth Half Hour | ||||
| 1:30:00 | 5:15 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Jammin’ with Buddha | Unfolding Skies |
| 1:35:04 | 4:07 | Lis Addison | The Golden Ray | The Golden Ray (Single) |
| 1:38:49 | 6:32 | Liquid Bloom & Janax Pacha | Heartbeat of the Sacred Valley (Calagna Remix) | Heartbeat of the Sacred Valley |
| 1:45:08 | 0:45 | break | ||
| 1:46:00 | 13:20 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Unfolding Skies | Unfolding Skies |
On the next Echoes, music by Robert Schroeder. He’s one of the last musicians to release in the classic sequencer 1970s. He has an album that expands that sound called Observer. John Diliberto observes that and more on Echoes from PRX.
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Echoes Program 2613B |
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Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Kevin Keller | Evensong 3 (feat. Katherine Wessinger) | Evensong |
| 0:06:00 | Falling You | Falling | Blush |
| 0:11:38 | Air | Maggot Brain ~ live | Moon Safari ~ +Blu-ray audio (CD) |
| 0:18:33 | Alison Moyet | All Signs of Life | Key |
| 0:22:06 | Tycho | Devices | Infinite Health |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Cocteau Twins | Beatrix | Treasure |
| 0:33:06 | David Darling | Voyager | Other Worlds |
| 0:38:00 | Emma Anderson | For a Moment (deary Dub Remix) | Spiralee: Pearlies Rearranged |
| 0:41:46 | Angara | Soleils de Septembre (Angara Rework) | Fragments II: Lili Boulanger |
| 0:45:15 | break | ||
| 0:46:33 | Robert Schroeder | Sleepless Nights | Observer |
| 0:52:57 | Le Morte d’Abby | Leaving | Five Minutes |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Miranda Lee Richards | Already Fine | Echoes of the Dreamtime |
| 1:06:00 | Lukas Midub | Universe | Shiny Lights |
| 1:09:06 | London Grammar | LA | The Greatest Love |
| 1:13:29 | Colin Vallon | Mars | Samares |
| 1:20:09 | Alu | Martian Rendezvous | Lobotomy Sessions |
| 1:23:45 | Erik Wollo | Pandrone | Solastalgia |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Joss Jaffe & Jim Kimo West | Rainbow Body | Santhi |
| 1:34:59 | David Sylvian | River Man | Gone to Earth |
| 1:39:24 | Ben Böhmer | Faithless (feat. Erin LeCount) | Bloom |
| 1:42:57 | break | ||
| 1:44:02 | Diane Arkenstone | It’s Been Here All Along | Aquaria II: Ascension |
| 1:48:07 | Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory | Afterlife | Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory |
| 1:51:30 | Rena Jones & KiloWatts | Betwixt and Between | Caesura |
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