ARS LUCIS / Morpheus Music

Morpheus Music & The Mall Magazine Beatless, minimal ambient air. As if painting with the sonic equivalent of light, Max Corbacho establishes a deep, resonant, anticipatory expanse and fills it with shafts and shards of shifting colour and density. Broad beams and hazes of tone drift in unhurried solemnity, rising heavenward in weightless clouds or … Leer más

Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity

Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity This release from 2009 offers 74 minutes of regal ambience.Corbacho plays sequencing, synthesizers, and atmospheres.Ethereal electronics achieve a stately presence that remains rich with sedative properties.Vaporous textures unfurl to fill the chamber, then undulate to bring these attenuated layers into endearing contact with each other, merging to produce a delicate density … Leer más

The Talisman 2

The word talisman [from Arabic tilasm, from Late Greek telesma, from Greek telein: consecration ceremony, to consecrate, fulfil; from telos: result.] refers to a magical object which can give the bearer fortune, good luck and magical protection. In Jungian psychology, talisman is a word used to denote a pivotal or key symbol in a dream … Leer más

Jan Beneš, czech multiculture webzine www.nekultura.cz

How are you? Who is Max Corbacho? How did you become an ambient artist? Max Corbacho is simply a human being. The question of who I am is the fundamental question of our life. We are here to remember who we are. So, I’m on it! My relationship with ambient music, began when I heard … Leer más

Deep Time

Three long pieces, each blending seamlessly into the next, make up this deep ambient work of almost 74 minutes. Fans of Max’s recent works will find «Deep Time» a radical departure from what they have come to expect. Gone are the sweeping chords and seductive melodies; the slow progression of phrase intermingled with synthesizer washes … Leer más

ARS LUCIS – review by Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity

This release from 2009 offers 74 minutes of regal ambience.Corbacho plays sequencing, synthesizers, and atmospheres.Ethereal electronics achieve a stately presence that remains rich with sedative properties.Vaporous textures unfurl to fill the chamber, then undulate to bring these attenuated layers into endearing contact with each other, merging to produce a delicate density that retains a demonstrative … Leer más

ARS LUCIS – review by Phil Derby, Electroambient Space

Phil Derby / Electroambient Space Max Corbacho’s music is getting increasingly ambient with each new release. If he gets any more relaxed than Ars Lucis, by the time his next album comes out I will only make it through the first two minutes before I drift off into blissful slumber. Corbacho truly is “in the … Leer más

ARS LUCIS / Marius-Christian Burcea, «Journeys to the Infinite»

Marius-Christian Burcea, producer/host «Journeys to the Infinite» If Goethe called architecture frozen music, it seems that Max Corbacho succeeded in his latest recording to release music from stone without losing the sacred geometries. ARS LUCIS delivers a perfect flow of space, sound and silence manifested in seven tracks of pure meditative harmonies. Every piece of … Leer más

ARS LUCIS / Bert Strolember, Sonicimmersion

Bert Strolember, Sonicimmersion After the gentle ambience of his 2008-release «BreathStream», Max Corbacho takes us to ambient heaven with his release «Ars Lucis». Those familiar with his work know what he’s capable of, spending lots of time in his studio sculpturing and harmonizing a continuous flow of expansive textures, which now have ended up in … Leer más

BREATHSTREAM / Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity

Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity This release from 2008 features 73 minutes of gentle ambience. Vibrant electronic textures are embellished by additional atmospherics to produce a lavish excursion into cerebral introspection. Tonalities of rich definition and sparse substance flow with expansive deliberation, generating moods of rewarding depth. The tones are compelling despite their ethereal nature. Sustained … Leer más