Craig Padilla "Sonar"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Electronica, Ambient
Label: Fruits de Mer Records
Release date: June 9, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. In Search Of Stranger Fish (1:18)
2. Velvet Moon (6:25)
3. Cosmic Dawn (14:30)
4. Challenge Deep (13:19)
5. Behind The Lightning (11:50)
6. Sonar (22:51)
7. Awaken To A Dream (22:54)

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Craig Padilla

Description/Reviews: 

...this 2-LP compilation of music recorded from 1996 onwards is no mere New Age fluff. Padilla’s influences include Wendy Carlos, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, and Steve Roach, among others, and that is precisely the crowd this music will appeal to.
After a brief introductory piece, the first LP kicks off with Velvet Moon, the only track with prominent participation of guitar, which gives the music a floating electronica meets Pink Floyd feel. Cosmic Dawn has a deep space combination of electronica, Prog and classical that I enjoyed. It floats along steadily, with seductively playful melodies and multiple elements that make the music meditatively alluring yet elusively complex. It also has just enough oddball sounds to inject a welcome freaky factor to the music. Challenge Deep creates the sensation that we’re rocketing gently through the cosmos, swept along by layers of soaring electronic space waves. These are anchored by classic Schulze/Tangerine Dream syncopated patterns, giving the music a mesmerizing rhythmic quality. And Behind The Lightning is a gorgeously majestic slab of symphonic Space-Prog.

 Read the full review by Jerry Kranitz at aural-innovations.com

Media/Samples 
Sonar (excerpt)
Velvet moon (excerpt)

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