STYLE Vast beatless zones and undulating velvet expanses: Splendid Labyrinths is an album of ambient immensity and immeasurable time. Max Corbacho’s latest release features heaving multi-layered drones that seem to drift in and out of focus and intensity like slow-motion sunlight filtering through gracefully moving storm clouds. These opulent sonic textures are of impressive fathomless … Read more
The Spanish musician Max Corbacho has grown into one of the absolute masters in ambient/spacemusic. His albums are like an ocean of peace and tranquillity. Well, oceans are the central concept on his double album The Ocean Inside. Max sees the mind as an ocean with constant changing waves. In his music he goes … Read more
This album, the first I’ve heard from Max Corbacho, is a work of craftsmanship. I mean, I find it a work that uses a more or less defined language and follows a musical tradition that survives and evolves in time through several artists, with more or less clear influences and origins (the space ambient from … Read more
Loving… «The Ocean Inside» by Max Corbacho.Music has a special place in my life. It has the power to inspire … the power to encourage and build up in ways the other arts cannot. It is accessible. I can experience poignant moments of joy and beauty in the most unlikely of places … all I … Read more
Announced longer time ago as possibly the most ambitious project, has became the reality during December, 2012. Yes, «The Ocean Inside» is a monstrous double CD recording by Spanish drifting aficionado Max Corbacho, released by ad21 label and packaged in gorgeous 6-panel digipak (designed by Manuela Márquez). I still clearly remember those magical moments while … Read more
J’ai reçu ce matin le double album «The Ocean Inside»… Sitôt reçu, sitôt placé dans mon «Ipod» et… quel délice… Vous avez totalement réussi à restituer cette ambiance des fonds marins, ces mystères, ses secrets, ses abysses, et-ce grâce à ces arrangements musicaux savamment et harmonieusement synthétisés… Il y a peu encore, je ne vous … Read more
Quando Brian Eno ebbe l’intuizione dell’ambient music, le idee si indirizzarono dapprima verso gli spazi definiti (aeroporti, stazioni, etc.) ma furono probabilmente i musicisti ambient statunitensi ad espandere il concetto dello spazio da «ricoprire» facendolo passare da uno ampio ma comunque con dei confini, ad uno vastissimo che non poteva non riguardare gli elementi fondamentali … Read more
Se c’è un musicista, nella scena odierna, che ha saputo donare nuovo vigore alle forme più tradizionali e quiete dell’ambient music, questo è sicuramente il catalano Max Corbacho. Nato e cresciuto a Barcellona, è forse il più talentuoso fra gli esponenti della generazione post-californiana, che prende dall’opera di gente come Steve Roach, Michael Stearns, Kevin … Read more
If ambient music has one defining characteristic, I think it is to evoke a sense of wonder and mystery. This album achieves that core task both in name and in deed. The Ocean Inside takes you on a journey into the deepest depths of your being and simultaneously reveals to you the grandeur of the … Read more
January 2013 Long-form drifting, beatless ambience. STYLE The Ocean Inside wells up out of silence in silken mists of tone that imperceptibly condense into an immense ocean of sound that surrounds you before you know it. The initial feeling is warm and softly wondrous; a sense of floatation is well established and you are immersed, … Read more