Path of Least Resistance
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.