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Majestic, in-depth and beckoning soundworlds keep coming from Barcelona-based ambient-master Max Corbacho. The 73-minute “Echo of Longing” is another example of his great talent featuring three long tracks that immerse and embrace the listener into a myriad of introspective soundwaves of pastel-coloured splendour in just a few minutes. Their grand expanse of cyclic, slow morphing … Leer más
Dear friends, The CD version of Echo Of Longing is now shipping from my Bandcamp store https://maxcorbacho.bandcamp.com/album/echo-of-longing. The album comes in a plastic-free, eco-friendly 4-Panel CD Digisleeve. I have managed to further reduce the shipping price on albums in Digisleve format, that is, Echo Of Longing, Ars Lucis 10th anniversary edition, Horizon Matrix and some … Leer más
The void, the space and the galaxies! The ambient music of Max Corbacho revolves around these three axes. ECHO OF LONGING is no different from the last 3 opus that the Spanish musician made me discover since Source of Present in 2017. The album, offered in CD manufactured and in download, offers 3 long rivers … Leer más
Spanish producer Max Corbacho has been creating atmospheric ambient music for over 20 years now and his newest ‘Echo and Longing’, just might be his most out of this world creation yet. The title song welcomes you to the beginning of an unknown and other-worldly vast space. A cavernous space that is as majestic as … Leer más
Horizon Matrix – pattern disruptor (Corbacho, 2018, Boyce review #2) Familiar with the Mandelbrot Set? For those who are, they may discover remarkable similarities between this geometric construct and the music of modern Spanish composer Max Corbacho. I refer in particular to the compositions on his recent release Horizon Matrix (2018). It is a given … Leer más
Echo of Longing – a descent into darkness (Corbacho, 2019, Boyce review #1) Those familiar with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness may enjoy a sense of déjà vu when listening to Echo of Longing, the latest (2019) release by the modern Spanish composer Max Corbacho. This may not necessarily be the comparison Corbacho had in … Leer más
Hypnotic and minimalist soundscapes of an artist in constant search for authenticity and depth. In “Echo Of Longing” Max Corbacho offers three long pieces that are a distant resonance of a feeling that lives inside the human heart and constantly pushes the soul in its search for self-discovery. Through soft sound full of details, such … Leer más
About a month ago I reviewed Max Corbacho’s other release from 2018 titled Nocturnes II; it, like this, is a dreamy soundworld filled with beautiful sonic textures flowing gracefully over one another, eliciting a number of sensations and emotions that flow freely and change from one minute to the next, a dense fog of shimmering … Leer más
Ars Lucis is often referred to as one of Max Corbacho’s finest albums and a true classic of ambient music. During these 10 years since its release, it has not stopped attracting more and more listeners. Often this music has been described as being in a galactic cathedral, majestic, atmospheric, spacial, monumental, graceful and magnificent. … Leer más
The ambient genre has never been more alive, it seems, than today. Decades after its birth (to the degree that a date of origin can be fixed), recordings continue to pour forth at an amazing rate. Recent releases by long-standing practitioners Erik Wollo, Steve Roach, and Max Corbacho provide a good representation of how things … Leer más