Craig Padilla

American musician and film score composer

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Craig Padilla is an American ambient musician and film score composer, actor, and video producer from Redding,^[1] California.^[2]

Biography

Since the mid-1990s he has released more than a dozen albums with music primarily inspired by the Berlin School of electronic music and space music on the labels Space For Music, Spotted Peccary Music, Lotuspike, Fruits de Mer Records, and Groove Unlimited, and contributed to compilations, including a tribute album to Michael Garrison. He also edits and produces videos for local television commercials, infomercials, corporate events, and music videos.

Reception

Jim Brenholts (Allmusic) describes Padilla as "one of the premier Berlin school sequencers in the U.S.A."^[3] while Stewart Mason (also Allmusic) calls him a "Berlin-based electronic music guru"^[4] which is factually a misleading as Padilla is based in California.^[2]

Discography

The discography includes only albums released on compact disc, digital download, and vinyl record.

Eye of the Storm (1996)
Patterns of Thought (1998)
The Soul Within (1999)
Beyond Beta (with Skip Murphy) (1999)
Crystal Garden (1999)
Beyond Volume 1 (with Skip Murphy) (1999)
Edge of Eternity (1999)
Eccentric Spheres (2000)
Music for the Mind - Live (Vol. 1) (2000)
Music for the Mind - Live (Vol. 2) 2000)
Perspectives on the Dreamworld (2000)
Reflections in Mercury (with Skip Murphy) (2001)
Temporal Suspension (with Skip Murphy) (2001)
Folding Space and Melting Galaxies (2002)
Vostok (2002)
Planetary Elements (with Skip Murphy) (2003)
Echo System (with Paul Ellis) (2004)
Genesis (2004)
Planetary Elements (Volume 2) (with Skip Murphy) (2005)
Path of Least Resistance (with Zero Ohms) (2005)
Phantasma (with Skip Murphy) (2006)
The Light in the Shadow (2006)
Analog Destination (with Skip Murphy) (2008)
Below the Mountain (2008)
Cycles (2008)
Beyond the Portal (with Zero Ohms & Skip Murphy) (2009)
The Heart of the Soul (2012)
When the Earth Is Far Away (with Zero Ohms) (2012)
strange fish 1 (shared LP with Sendelica) (2013)
Sonar (2014)
Land of Spirit (2014)
Life Flows Water (with Howard Givens) (2015)
Short Circuits (2015)
Spirit Holy Rising (with Howard Givens) (2015)
Heaven Condensed (2016)
Awakening Consciousness (with Howard Givens) (2016)
Being of Light (with Howard Givens) (2017)
Patterns of Thought (2017)
The Heart of the Galaxy (2018)
Aquarii (2018)
Toward the Horizon (with Marvin Allen) (2019)
The Bodhi Mantra (with Howard Givens) (2020)
Waveforms (with Skip Murphy) (2020)
Strange Gravity (with Marvin Allen) (2021)
Precipice of a Dream (with Howard Givens and Madhavi Devi) (2021)
Perspectives on the Dreamworld (2021)
Discovery of Meaning (2022)
Universe (with Skip Murphy) (2022)
Weathering the Storm (with Skip Murphy) (2023)

Film Scores

Phobias (2003)
Realms of Blood (with Skip Murphy) (2004)
Dark Woods (2006)
Space Crüesader (2012)

Voice Acting

Hans Bearnt in Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice video game for PlayStation 2 (2004)^[5]
Bulrell in Summon Night 6: Lost Borders video game for PlayStation 4 and PSVita (2017)

References

^ Craig Padilla, MySpace. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
^ ^a ^b About the artist Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Last modified 13 May 2008 09:33:10. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
^ Brenholts, Jim. "Vostok - Review". Allmusic/Macrovision Corporation. Retrieved 2008-10-03. Craig Padilla is one of the premier Berlin school sequencers in the U.S.A. [...] Padilla's atmosphere is deep and expansive. His sound design uses silence and empty spaces as integral elements of the soundscape. This is the ultimate icescape. It is also essential minimalism.
^ Mason, Stewart. "Genesis - Review". Allmusic/Macrovision Corporation. Retrieved 2008-10-03. The second album by Berlin-based electronic music guru Craig Padilla, Genesis offers more than the usual noodly drones that all too often pass for modern synthesizer music.
^ Career Soft. Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice. Atlus. Scene: Ending credits, 9:45 in, CAST.