Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen's Post-Rock Space Music for the 21st Century: The Echoes interview
Electronic artist Craig Padilla and guitarist Marvin Allen have released a quartet of albums that traverse the world of ambient, progressive rock and psychedelic music. Their latest is Unfolding Skies. It is Echoes April CD of the Month. Its cosmic sounds were all recorded in Craig Padilla’s living room.
Craig Padilla: “We did the first song, and when it was done, Marvin goes, ‘Padilla, make another sequence.’ And so he and my wife would go into the kitchen and just talk and I’d be out here just working on some other song ideas and then he’d go, ‘Ooh, that sounds good.’”
Craig Padilla and Marvin Allen talk about their journey and reveal the story behind “Jammin’ with Buddha.”
Read John Diliberto’s review of Unfolding Skies and explore the Echoes CD of the Month Club.
| Monday, April 20, 2026 – Program 26-16A | |||
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| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Erik Scott | Other Planets | Spirits |
| 0:06:00 | Adam Werner | The Hill in Windham | The Hill in Windham |
| 0:11:21 | Poppy Ackroyd | For Those Who Wait | Liminal |
| 0:16:58 | Delerium | Remember Love (with Mimi Page) | Signs |
| 0:21:20 | Clannad | Na Laethe Bhi | Banba |
| 0:26:30 | Sine | Last Goodbye | Last Goodbye (Single) |
| 0:29:30 | Message to Bears | Tired Eyes Waking Heart .(excerpt) | Half Light |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Interview: Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | ||
| 0:45:40 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Unfolding Skies | Unfolding Skies |
| 0:59:00 | David Arkenstone | Tokyo Rain (excerpt) | Ambient World |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Tycho | Glider | Epoch |
| 1:06:00 | Tim Motzer | Less Time Than There Used to Be | Grabbing on to Life |
| 1:10:30 | Mara Katria (feat. Modern English) | Snow | Modern M |
| 1:15:02 | Chronotope Project | Spirit Walk | Kaleidoscope |
| 1:19:25 | Ladytron | Sing | Paradises |
| 1:23:10 | AO MUSIC | Holeh Loya | Otherness |
| 1:29:30 | Jim Kimo West & Michael Whalen | Two Shores (excerpt) | Malibu Breeze |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Kevin Keller | The Quickening Air | The Quickening Air (Single) |
| 1:34:30 | Conjure One | Centre of the Sun (Solarstone Chilled-Out Remix) | Centre of the Sun |
| 1:40:35 | Twilight Archive | The Far Reaches | Dusk Line |
| 1:45:24 | Eric Hilton | A Sky So Close | A Sky So Close |
| 1:48:33 | break | ||
| 1:49:40 | Hammock | Chemicals Make You Small (featuring The Flaming Lips) | The Second Coming Was a Moonrise |
| 1:55:07 | Quiet Resonance | Alma Fuerte (Strong Soul) | Pathways |