 Craig Padilla & Zero Ohms
Craig Padilla
Craig Padilla, a 15 year electronic music veteran, has
proven to be a driving force in the current electronic
music scene, creating "Electronic/Space Music" with
an occasional nod to New age and Ambient Trance. Analog
sounds combine with digital synths to create a blissful
tapestry of sound; appealing to all fans of electronic
music!
Craig Padilla has been composing and performing his electronic/space
music for over 15 years. Very much inspired by Klaus Schulze,
Vangelis and Tangerine Dream he's given his own positive
personal touch to both spacey ambient and new age. Over
the years his music featured on KCHO/KFPR's "Music
for a New Age" radio show as well as various locally
produced television programs; and he's composed soundtracks
for various television and theatrical productions, including
KRCR TV (ABC), KIXE TV (PBS), and Shasta College Theatre.
His music has been recently accepted for a worldwide "Tribute
to Jean Michel Jarre" compilation CD. He can sculpt
space, explore it and invite you to a drift away with him
in wide and beautiful soundscapes.
Richard Roberts
During the '70s, Richard began his ongoing research into ethnomusicology and
the psycho-spiritual effects of music. He attended master's class with Jean-Pierre
Rampal and Bettine Clemmen, has performed on stage with The Chieftains, Peter
Hyrka, Sarah McLachlan, and opened for Robert Rich. By the '80s, extensive
experimentation led him to the musical styles now labeled as New Age and
Ambient.
Richard taught himself to play wind-controlled synthesizer,
guitar, and over fifty various flutes and other woodwinds,
in an embrace of styles from around the globe and beyond.
The mid-'90s saw the release of five new age projects,
Winds Over The World, and Gaia (Metamusic); Whale Chants,
and Dolphin Songs (Tranquil/Direct); and Trans Spheres
(ZOP).
While successful, these releases failed to do more than
hint at the
extensive ambient compositions Richard had created and performed in
coffeehouses from Memphis to Knoxville, Tennessee. Encouraged by friends in
the industry, Richard followed his heart into the ambient realm exclusively.
This led to five critically-acclaimed ambient Zero Ohms releases: The Glass
Bead Game (1999), Atma-Spheric Surfaces (2000), SUPREME INFINITE ESSENCE (2000)
and produced Innerstellar (2000), a CD of overtone singing by his friend Gordon
Rhyne. These were followed by a string of releases on the Space For Music label,
including, Immense Distance and Soundfall to the Infinite (collaborations with
Brannan Lane), Ecstasis (with Gordon Rhyne), and several solo projects, True
Degrees of Freedom, Unafraid of the Impending Silence, Sweven, and Spatial
Glacial Nebulous. Richard’s current release is a collaborative effort
with Craig Padilla, Path of Least Resistance, released on the Lotuspike
label.
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