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.
| Weekend, April 25-26, 2026 – Echoes Program 2616A | |||
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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 |
Music by Moby. His 2025 album, Always Centered at Night, featured a bevy of vocalists. One of them is the Dutch-Sudanese vocalist Gaidaa. It’s called “Transit”. We’ll hear that, and music by Mayfly from Hideaway Volume 1. It’s ahead on Echoes with John Diliberto from PRX.
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Weekend, April 25-26, 2026 – Echoes Program 2616B |
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Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Ariana Saraha & Flight Behavior | Grandmother’s Tears | From the Wild |
| 0:06:00 | Moon And Bike | River | One |
| 0:10:02 | The Black Angels | Vermillion Eyes | Wilderness of Mirrors |
| 0:13:51 | Bill Nelson | The Way of the World | Marvellous Realms |
| 0:16:55 | Moby & Gaidaa | Transit (Lafayette Remix) | Transit (single) |
| 0:21:35 | Bruno Sanfilippo | Followers | REDES |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Robert Schroeder | Floating Music | Floating Music |
| 0:38:52 | Didon | If Only | Tunisian Tale |
| 0:43:20 | break | ||
| 0:44:05 | Hansan | Vårt långa land | Blod eller bläck |
| 0:46:06 | Michael Whalen | Vox Humana | Imaginary Trains |
| 0:49:38 | AMAARA | Gone | Heartspeak EP |
| 0:52:51 | Suzanne Ciani | Inverness | History of my Heart |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Klangstein | Echoing | Viela |
| 1:06:00 | Michael Spriggs | The Kohavi Suite: River | Back to 1 |
| 1:10:04 | CARRELEE | Cerulean Sky | Scale of Dreams |
| 1:13:13 | Mayfly | Ma Peau Brûle | Hideaway Vol 1 |
| 1:16:12 | Mark Shreeve | Legion | Legion |
| 1:21:26 | Sounds from the Ground | Temple Steps | The Maze |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Indigo Sparke | Infinity Honey | Hysteria |
| 1:33:54 | The American Dollar | Fade In Out | Atlas |
| 1:38:31 | Nothern Form | Mello | Mello (Single) |
| 1:41:45 | break | ||
| 1:42:46 | Bluetech | Restless | Spacehop Chronicles 2: Restless |
| 1:46:09 | Meg Bowles | Evening Chorus | Voices from the Ethereal Forest |
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You played a hypnotic piece called Rotary Motor. I don’t see it listed?
It is “Rotary Motion” by Robert Schroeder from the album, Floating Musc https://robertschroeder.bandcamp.com/album/floating-music-edition-2023
Right! Thanks.