A true dreamscape by Chris Detjen Max Corbacho continues his development as one of the world’s top ambient composers. With the virtual flood of darker drone work being released today, and when it seems harder and harder to find truly atmospheric ambient, this release is a breath of fresh air. Heavengly ambient swells, gentle … Read more
As stated on Max’s official website, «frozen architecture music» suits this album perfectly. At first, I thought the album sounded very one-note. After many listens, this is certainly not the case. The listener has to focus in on all of the tiny elements that Max uses in his musical palette in order to gain a … Read more
A deeper trek into the grand vastness of eternity! by eTripper «Lost Links» continues where «BreathStream» left off. It’s another grand inquiry into the great beyond. Where ambient-master Max Corbacho conducts you along on waves synthesized bliss, into realms only hereto speculated about. His newest offering delivers on all fronts, perhaps even topping «BreathStream». … Read more
A Classic by Chris Detjen “Lost Links” is a special collection of previously unreleased tracks that never made the cut for previous albums. I was hesitant buying this music as I assumed it had to be mediocre at best, otherwise why weren’t the songs released sooner? My assumption was dead wrong. Thank you to … Read more
Music for an approaching event horizon! by eTripper This is one of Max Corbacho’s finest masterworks! It ranks right-up there with Jonn Serrie, Meg Bowles, Kevin Kendle, and Thom Brennan. These colossal themes are very epic in nature, and will have your mind wondering near the schwarzchild radius of a distant collapsed star. This … Read more
«Simply Gorgeous» by Endoflogic From the artists’ website: «Like a weightless dream, the main theme is exposed in Light-Matrix Portal, where a gentle swirl of chords leads us, as a Gothic doorway, into a magnificent space. The main theme remains on all the pieces in a subtle way, spreading mystical, delicate scents through labyrinthine passages … Read more
A journery across astral realms, and thru magical portals. by eTripper «Talisman» conjures-up magical realms, and journeys to alternate realities on this CD. Where the ‘fantastic’ is «always nearer than the nearest heartbeat, and never farther away, than the furthest star». This music shimmers along within the ‘purgatory’ of an endless limbo, with a … Read more
This release from 2011 offers 67 minutes of delicate ambience. Spanish synthesist Corbacho has been crafting ambient tuneage for a long time. With this CD he presents a collection of unreleased or forgotten tracks of merit. A variety of delicate texturals are tempered by additional electronics, generating atmospheric tapestries of endearing fragility. This fragility mirrors … Read more
Ambient composer Max Corbacho describes Lost Links as a compilation of “deleted, unreleased, forgotten tracks” which were not included on previous albums. Despite the chronological and conceptual differences this implies, Lost Links portrays a uniform vision and the quality of the music betrays its origin as a collection of unused pieces. Corbacho’s music is, at … Read more
Channeling the future, October 4, 2009 Max Corbacho is the best music find for me in 2009. Max, from Spain, has hit a strong vein of ambient, even spiritual, music that is spacey yet transformative. This CD, Breathstream, is a goldmine, a near masterpiece. I like it very much and consider it slightly better than … Read more