REVIEWS

  • Atmospheric Twilight – review by Synthsequences
    ATMOSPHERIC TWILIGHT is the 6th album of the always cosmic and dark ambient universe of Max Corbacho that I review. And I also listened to several of them without writing about those. So, the question arose whether I should review another of his albums that are conceived in the same comfort zone that the Spanish … Read more
  • Equinox – review by Sonicimmersion.org
    A most gracious, gentle evolving sound world of repose and contemplation lies at the core of “Equinox”, a 74-minute textural extravaganza by Spanish ambient-master Max Corbacho. Max already announced the recording at the end of May 2022 as a sound distillation from an idea created in 2019 that had taken definitive form in recent months … Read more
  • Equinox – review by Julian Boyce
    Equinox, the latest journey into pure audio-emotion from Max Corbacho, the revered electronic soundscape artist from Spain. Max has a history of sublime, expansive music, experienced as though the listener is walking through a cathedral of light. In fact, his big open-space, sound textures are a trademark; music synonymous with stepping between the pillars of … Read more
  • A Connection to the Wonder – review by Paul Rijkens
    At the moment of writing is our country in a cold and dark time, cold because of the temperature and the many rain, dark because of the short days but also because of the lockdown. We can therefore some warmth and positivism to use. Max Corbacho offers us through his music. The one from Barcelona … Read more
  • A Connection to the Wonder – review by Sonicimmersion.org
    The title of this album is well chosen as it’s an entrance into a magical world of expansive, serene textural vistas and alternate realities. An abundance of velvet, overtly smooth evolving tapestries is already on display on the 39-minute title track kicking things off, an intimate symphony transcending through time and space with various beautiful … Read more
  • Nocturnes III – review by Okultura
    With this third album, Max Corbacho completed the trilogy, which he began publishing in 2017. Its creation was inspired by night photographs, which he created during his meditations in Aragon, in the north of Spain. The strange rock formations fascinated him with their bizarreness, even the hauntingness that stood out especially in the night shots. … Read more
  • Lost Links II – The Complete Collection – review by Sonicimmersion
    In 2011, Max Corbacho released “Lost Links”, a set of atmospheric and space music tracks that were shelved although they were composed initially to fit on a concept album, compilation or project that fell through. Those tracks are now found on the second disc of “Lost Links II”, so for a description of those, I … Read more
  • Lost Links II – The Complete Collection – review by PSYCHEDELIC VORTEX
    If you were excited about the compilation «Lost Links», released years ago on the Relaxed Machinery label like me, pay attention, because Max Corbacho brings the whole concept again, and enriches it with a complete release of previously unreleased songs on the first half of this double album. On the second half we will find … Read more
  • The Unfolding Dawn – review by Richard Gürtler
    Crepuscularly ear-tickling traceries keep on emerging, while peaceful surges of gracefully panoramic immenseness persistently coalesce with profoundly sweeping glimpses of silence. Solitarily enigmatic expanses clandestinely reveal all its colossal beauty, serenely embracing, breathlessly engulfing, eternally resonant and intensely towering. A grandiosely infinite oasis holding unmistakably transcendent sonic signatures of its Maestro, where warmly undulating meridians … Read more
  • Nocturnes III – review by Sonicimmersion.org
    With “Nocturnes III”, Max Corbacho brings his audience the last chapter of the trilogy started in 2017 featuring music inspired by the vast and desolate night landscapes of Spain’s Aragon and Extremadura. Hardly any people live out there, as such being one of the few remaining places in Europe where one can still feel that … Read more
  • Echo of Longing – review by Peter Thelen, Exposé
    Offering a powerful sense of otherworldly ambient drift, Max Corbacho’s latest Echo of Longing was created over a four year period from 2015 to 2019, released near the end of last year. The 70-plus minute album contains only three extended tracks that will guide the listener into deep space ambient realms, through the fog, the … Read more
  • Nocturnes III – review by PSYCHEDELIC VORTEX
    The third part of the Nocturnes trilogy is published 3 years after the previous volume. However, Corbacho’s music matured again, and in this case it happened in a fundamental way. The first song on the album was created for 17 long years. Its origin dates back to the period of the Indalo album and since … Read more
  • The Unfolding Dawn – review by Peter Thelen, Exposé.
    It’s a strange new world these days, hopefully only a temporary disturbance in life’s continuum, but a disturbance nonetheless, causing artists to look inward for hope and spiritual relief. Corbacho recorded this long form piece in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic from march to April 2020 at his studio in Barcelona, Spain, a … Read more
  • Dreaming Spaces – review by okultura.cz
    Max Corbacho is a Spanish musician, currently known for his interpretation of ambient spherical music, in which he uses both analog and digital synthesizers and sequencers. He studied guitar and then worked as a guitarist in various local rock bands. He was influenced by Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Eno, Roach, Rich and others. He released his … Read more
  • Echo of Longing – review by okultura.cz
    Max Corbacho: Echo Of Longing CD, Max Corbacho, 2019 We already know from another review that Max Corbacho is a Spanish musician living in Barcelona who composes and interprets atmospheric, ambient music for sequencers and analog and digital synthesizers. Anyone who knows anything about these instruments knows that they are constantly improving and maybe that … Read more
  • Dreaming Spaces – review by Richard Gürtler
    Max Corbacho «Dreaming Spaces» CD Long form magic by one of the undisputable Maestros of the deepest sonic meditations!!! With «Dreaming Spaces» we are entering voluminously immersing and intricately tenebrous zones, where spectacularly sinuous, colossally magmatic and gracefully expansive drone layers eternally commingle with myriad of blossomingly ascending tapestries, no matter if balmily ear-tickling, organically … Read more
  • Echo of Longing – review by Sonicimmersion.org
    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 … Read more
  • Echo of Longing – review by Synthsequences
    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 … Read more
  • Echo of Longing – review by Tim Humphrey
    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 … Read more
  • Horizon Matrix – review by Julian Boyce
    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 … Read more
  • Echo of Longing – review by Julian Boyce
    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 … Read more
  • Horizon Matrix – review by Exposé
    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 … Read more
  • Horizon Matrix – review by Textura.org
    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 … Read more
  • Horizon Matrix – review by Synth&Sequences
    A distant sonorous murmur rises in the west. Prisms shimmer in its ambient breeze, which is now blowing like a huge sibylline mass with its esoteric mysteries. «Quantum Cathedrals» begins “Horizon Matrix” with a gigantic sound wave knitted of interwoven layers which accumulate in a mosaic of tones and of contrasting colors. To help soften … Read more
  • NOCTURNES II – review by Richard Gürtler
    Max Corbacho «Nocturnes II» CD The beauty of magnificently immersing nocturnal landscapes of Aragón region in northeastern Spain is resurrected once more! Max Corbacho, the Spanish driftscaper par excellence has released the second chapter of «Nocturnes» series during April 2018 through his Silentsun imprint. «Nocturnes II» CD is packaged in an attractive glossy 4-panel digipak, … Read more
  • Horizon Matrix – review by Sonicimmersion.org
    I’ve been following Max Corbacho since discovering his debut «Vestiges» in 1999. It opened a world of passionate ambient sonic splendour unravelling until this very day. A highly atmospheric, enchanting, vibrant and expansive ambient-space is found on the five tracks making up the 73-minute «Horizon Matrix», an alternate aural dimension even tapping into the infinite … Read more
  • NOCTURNES II – review by Textura
    Only a few days ago, we described Dennis Huddleston as the «very model of consistency» for the regularity and consistently high quality of his 36 output. Much the same could be said of Max Corbacho, who’s been crafting ambient-electronic soundscapes since 1998. This second chapter in his projected Nocturnes trilogy certainly lives up to its … Read more
  • NOCTURNES II – review by Dreamfolk (Spanish)
    Max Corbacho ~ Nocturnes II (Silentsun, 2018) Conocí a Max Corbacho con su disco The Ocean Inside. Por entonces quedé impresionado por la profundidad y la belleza de sus composiciones, y por la maestría artesanal que revelaba el resultado final de su trabajo. Lo más importante es que los paisajes sonoros de ese viaje imaginal … Read more
  • NOCTURNES II – review by SonicImmersion.org
    This second instalment of the «Nocturnes» trilogy reconnects seamlessly to the deep, gentle and intimate atmospherics of the first album delivering 70 minutes of mesmerizing night (at times even tactile) ambiences incorporating various mysterious, dreamful and visceral aural currents. The strong 20-minute «Celistia» kicking off the 70-minute album already propels the listener into mesmerizing higher … Read more
  • NOCTURNES II – review by Ambient Visions
    Welcome to another journey into the silky darkness of the night with Max Corbacho as he unleashes Nocturnes II for his fans to devour and enjoy. Nocturnes II was released on April 20, 2018 and from the first notes of Celistia which clocks in at a hefty 23:13 the listener knows that this is going … Read more
  • SOURCE OF PRESENT – review by Textura.org
    Space ambient of the first order from Max Corbacho, who has been crafting deep, atmospheric soundscapes for the better part of two decades. Much has happened since his debut Vestiges appeared in 1998, including an ongoing refinement in the sound design of his ambient productions. Created during 2015 and 2017, Source of Present finds him … Read more
  • SOURCE OF PRESENT – review by Richard Gürtler
    The Spanish Maestro of deepest sonic meditations is back again with his latest aural cathedral entitled «Source Of Present». As a reviewer, even if it’s just my free time hobby and passion, I should maybe stay more objective, however, many of you might have known and it’s no secret that I have been always utterly … Read more
  • SOURCE OF PRESENT – review by Synth&Sequences
    Aficionados of quiet and relaxing EM, at your wallets! Max Corbacho’s name was no stranger to me to have seen it on diverse compilations and on Ron Boots’ weekly E-news. If my eyes knew, my ears not! And very often I told myself; one day I got to try it. This day arrived when the … Read more
  • SOURCE OF PRESENT – review by Morpheus Music
    Drifting spacey ambient electronica.Source of Present is a assemblage of six silken, deeply-immersive ambient experiences. Like the pull of an enormous galactic ocean Max Corbacho’s compositions here heave and roll in tranquil immensity, waves and swells of sound shifting, rising, falling in multiple tides. Having the cover art in mind one can’t escape the association … Read more
  • SOURCE OF PRESENT – review by SonicImmersion.org
    Being a long time ambient fan myself I’ve reviewed quite a bit of music fitting the bill to slow down the mind and detach from busy modern life, offering a doorway to tranquil spheres for contemplation and introspection. The sphere paintings created by Spanish composer Max Corbacho in the last decade fit this category as … Read more
  • ARTE MAGNETICA – review by SonicImmersion.org
      Extreme weather conditions have been a source of inspiration through the years for various ambient composers, just think of Robert Rich («Calling down the Sky») or Steve Roach («Slow Heat», «Storm Warning»). With «Arte Magnetica» Spanish sound sculptor Max Corbacho delivers his contribution to the subject painting an aural panorama of lush textural expansiveness … Read more
  • NOCTURNES – review by Otras Musicas Otros Mundos
    Tumbado en una hamaca al fresco, como hacemos los andaluces en vacaciones cuando llegan las tórridas noches de verano, pensaba cómo iba a describir este álbum mientras observaba el firmamento. Pasaba algún coche por la calle, supongo que ladraba un perro, imagino que alguna vecina tenía la televisión alta. Y aun así, en el mundo … Read more
  • NOCTURNES – review by Paul Rijkens – iO Pages
    A nocturne is a musical composition based on the atmosphere of the night. The Irish composer John Field (1782-1837) was the first who wrote this kind of music and is known as the founder of the style. The Spanish ambient artist Max Corbacho steps in his footsteps. Photographs of the night inspired him for this … Read more
  • NOCTURNES – review by Percorsi Musicali
    Between night reenactments and organic lifting. Playing exactly the «night» feeling is a very difficult maneuver in music. Unlike other arts such as literature, poetry or cinema, where the reference is precise and specified by the image projected by the text or the screen, there is a lack of equivalent neural transport in music. Night, … Read more
  • NOCTURNES – review by textura.org
    The panoramic landscape photographs adorning Max Corbacho’s Nocturnes serve a purpose that goes beyond mere decoration. In this case, the images, captured by the artist himself, are intended to reflect the emotions he felt and the impressions gathered during many recent sessions of night photography; in his own words, «The most vivid memory of these … Read more
  • NOCTURNES – review by Bert Strolenberg – Sonicimmersion
    «Nocturnes» (the debut release on Max’s own label Silentsun, created exclusively for his solo albums from now on) is the first episode of a trilogy with night landscapes as a theme. The long hours lived on many night-time excursions and capturing the places visited in great photos (see the albums nice cover art), inspired the … Read more
  • NOCTURNES – review by Darren Bergstein
    Max Corbacho’s long been something of Spain’s answer to Steve Roach, and this, his latest, doesn’t mitigate that comparison nor does it disappoint. «Nocturnes» is every bit the stellar cousin to many of Roach’s own escapades, particularly «Structures from Silence», which this expertly mirrors in every capacity, nowhere more so than on the epic, 52-minute-plus … Read more
  • NOCTURNES – review by MORPHEUS MUSIC
      May 2017Smooth, drifting ambient electronica.Nocturnes sees Spanish ambient master Max Corbacho delivering some of his most silken, airy ambient fabric to date along with some uneasy dark shrouds that lift and curl in the unseen slow-motion currents of the night. The enormous opener wafts by in delicate filaments of sound, overlaid one upon another, … Read more
  • ARS LUCIS – review by Cosmiagramma
      The wonderful thing about ambient music is that it’s a pure distillation of an aesthetic (not A E S T H E T I C, at least not just that). Instead of making music that reminds you of glimmering airports or lazy Thursday afternoons or an earthy old chapel, ambient music sounds like those … Read more
  • FUTURE TERRAIN – Review by Richard Gürtler
    One of my dreams came true!!! Yeah, definitely as this long-form piece was originally released during the spring of 2015 as a digital download only, in shorter 58-minute version. As far I remember, it was just before «Splendid Labyrinths» CD was officially introduced. «Future Terrain» has immediately received a lot of positive feedbacks from many … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by Paul Rijkens, iO Pages
     SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Max Corbachomaxcorbacho.com I am a fan of the music of Spanish musician Max Corbacho. In these times of hurry, bustle and nervousness, there are fortunately still artists who can make a contribution to a little relaxation. In 1998 his first cd Vestiges appeared. On this he sounded a bit like a descendant … Read more
  • FUTURE TERRAIN – Review by Paul Rijkens, iO Pages
     FUTURE TERRAIN –  Max Corbacho  (GS PRODUCTIONS)   I have described Max Corbacho’s music as an ocean of calmness. The music of the Spanish composer and electronic musician is excellent suitable for seeking and finding tranquillity. Corbacho says Future Terrain is a remote sci-fi futuristic landscape. I can only agree with that. He created the music … Read more
  • ARS LUCIS – review by Musicbymood
      There’s something incredibly ethereal about this album. Max Corbacho is brilliant at evoking reverence, space and a feeling of… well… the cosmos. Much of his work seems, bright, icy & celestial. Ars Lucis has a vast sense of space within it. Inspired by cathedrals and the way light pours in through coloured windows, Corbacho spaces … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by eTripper
    Always primal, universal, and profound!  Max Corbacho creates a wall of sonorous sound, that transports the ‘listerner’ through aural corridors, where ease abides, and no mythical ‘Minotaur’ lurks within the corridors to crash the party. Corbacho’s lastest effort is simply entitled: «Splendid Labyrinths» it delivers on all fronts, as one would expect from a an … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by FLOGA-SE (Portugues)
    Em 2012, Max lançava «The Ocean Inside» (ouça aqui), que iria se tornar meu companheiro desde então até os dias de hoje. Nele, o atravessamento percorre com excelência a simbiose entre som e visão; as sonoridades verdadeiramente criavam imagens. Era um «exame» do oceano interno que as pessoas carregam; como ele é afetado pelas interferências … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by Dreamfolk.blogspot
    El nuevo trabajo de Max Corbacho es uno de esos discos que van desplegándose a medida que los vuelves a escuchar una y otra vez, revelando su profundidad poco a poco, de manera que un buen día te encuentras sumergido en sus paisajes sonoros con una sensación difícil de definir, como si las piezas empezaran a encajar, … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by Ondarock.it
    Per la prima volta fuori dal catalogo della sua ad21 – etichetta condivisa con Bruno Sanfilippo– Max Corbacho torna ad incidere un disco a ben tre anni dal capolavoro “The Ocean Inside”. Un lavoro che segna un cambio di prospettiva di una certa importanza nella carriera dell’artista spagnolo, forse il più abile e talentuoso fra gli esponenti dell’ultima … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by Textura.org
    Since the release of his debut album Vestiges in 1998, Max Corbacho has worked towards progressively refining an electronic music style that’s been described as ‘Ambient Atmospheric – Space Music.’ That he has close ties to Bruno Sanfilippo, with whom he established the ad21 label and collaborated on two albums (2003’s Indalo, 2012’s Bioma), also says much about the … Read more
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Ambient Visions
    It is often the case that artists who are the most well-known or who have been around a genre of music the longest are the ones that everyone wants to review and I will be the first to admit that time sometimes constrains me as what I can listen to and review for Ambient Visions. … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by Caerdroiandream
    It’s been nearly two and a half years since Max Corbacho released his last album, The Ocean Inside, which was an epic two and a half hour journey through monumental soundscapes and gorgeous atmospheres, the entire album an ambient masterpiece, concluding with the hauntingly beautiful Deeper Into the Ocean, a song I wished would never … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by Morpheus Music
    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
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by Percorsi Musicali
    L’ambient music odierna si compone di un grosso ventaglio di scelte: generi e sottogeneri in forma multipla, intersezioni con l’attualità digitale e rappresentazioni con sfumature umorali, hanno prodotto un ampio raggio d’azione che, in verità, non è più controllabile all’occhio critico. Si è compiuto un processo di consolidamento, in cui l’iniziale e crescente audience di … Read more
  • SPLENDID LABYRINTHS – Review by Sonicimmersion
    Since he started out releasing music in 1999, accomplished composer Max Corbacho had delivered the ambient community a very nice and consistent collection of highly spherical ambiences. «Splendid Labyrinths» (following right after his download-only dark ambient recording «Future Terrain») is a next chapter in his what Max likes to refer to as his pursuit of … Read more
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Paul Rijkens / iO Pages
      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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Dreamfolk.blogspot (English and Spanish)
    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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Headphonaught
    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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Richard Gürtler
    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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Jean Canonne
    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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Percorsi Musicali
    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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Ondarock
    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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by lunarcaverns.blogspot
    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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by MORPHEUS MUSIC
    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
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Hypnagogue.net
     I happen to live not far from Geoff Small, a partner in the Relaxed Machinery label and an evangelical Max Corbacho fan. I had to drop something off at his house recently, and I mentioned that on my drive I was listening to Corbacho’s latest, The Ocean Inside. He asked me what I thought of it, … Read more
  • LOST LINKS – review by T. R. Boomer
    The best space music ever! Max is up there in space with John Serrie and Steve Roach., December 22, 2012 Lost links is my favorite space album. If you are or have ever been a fan of Music from the Hearts of Space, by Stephen Hill, then you will love this album. Check out hos.com … Read more
  • THE TALISMAN – review by T. R. Boomer
    Max Corbacho is the bomb when it comes to space music!, December 22, 2012 The music of Max Corbacho is high tech and very spacey. I found it both soothing and relaxing. If you do any kind of close work or deep introspection or just want a deeply relaxing set of music to listen too, … Read more
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Caerdroiandream.com
     Max’s music has had a wonderful impact on me since discovering him a few months ago. Not only is it just a lovely, intensely immersive world of sound to listen to at any time, his works have also served as an interesting aid on several occasions, most notably, during the times while reading when the … Read more
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Sonicimmersion.org
     After quite a quite a long hiatus, Spanish ambient composer Max Corbacho is back with double album of expertly crafted atmospheric ambient pieces, clocking over 140 minutes. Bearing the subtitle «slow movements from the depths», Mr Corbacho takes his listeners on an epic and stellar soundscape journey with a vast range of extensive, highly immersive … Read more
  • BREATHSTREAM – review by Jeffrey A
    Max Corbacho has created yet another masterwork of atmospheric ambient music, both in terms of compositional and audiophile craftsmanship. These sensuous and expansive soundscapes are beautifully paced in their unfolding and find that delicate balance between calm stasis and developmental movement that the best works of the genre embody. One of the most interesting aspects … Read more
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Landscape Music
     The Ocean Inside is the long awaited new album of Max Corbacho presents an immersive flow of emotional soundworlds and harmonic structures that bring us to the depths of the inner ocean. Max Corbacho returns with a new work, this time as a long awaited double album, which again immerse ourselves into touching atmospheric ambient … Read more
  • THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Music and Happy Life
      After an active day at work with three customers in three locations and a couple of kilometers by foot in the piling up slippery snow sure makes me feel sleepy towards the night. Good to have new Max Corbacho’s sonic companion playing around. With his beatless ambient soundscapes, I always manages to achieve peaceful … Read more
  • BREATHSTREAM – review by Richard Gürtler
      I remember that I was quite disappointed back in December 2008 when this album came out, not because of its sonic or visual content, but because of the fact it was available as download only release. Fortunately, nearly one year later, at Nov 1st, 2009, my dreams came true when a CD version of … Read more
  • LOST LINKS – review by headphonaught
    Sensual and seductive. Two words that do not spring immediately to mind when seeking to describe an ambient release but ones that make sense… at least to me… when used to describe “lost links” by Max Corbacho from the Relaxed Machinery label. Before I explain… please indulge me in a wee story: I have a … Read more
  • LOST LINKS – review by eTripper
    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
  • LOST LINKS – review by Chris Detjen
    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
  • BREATHSTREAM – review by eTripper
    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
  • ARS LUCIS – review by Endoflogic
    «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
  • ARS LUCIS – review by Chris Detjen
    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
  • ARS LUCIS – review by mpjd
    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
  • THE TALISMAN – review by eTripper
    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
  • LOST LINKS – review by Sonic Curiosity
    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
  • LOST LINKS – review by Alternative Matter
    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
  • BREATHSTREAM – review by MysticJaguar
     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
  • LOST LINKS – review by Richard Gürtler
    Spanish Maestro of deep tranquil soundscapes returns with a very nice collection of, as mentioned on the booklet, deleted, unreleased and forgotten tracks on ambitious US label Relaxed Machinery. Really nice effort, because Max Corbacho belongs undoubtedly to the most respected and potential European ambient composers and certainly it would be a pity not to … Read more
  • LOST LINKS – review by eyes cast down
    Lost Links (Relaxed Machinery 0018) is a new collection of “lost pieces” from ambient-electronic wizard Max Corbacho, created during 2003-09 for other albums, but left out “for various reasons”. Fortunately, Max saved them for another day.   Created with synths, sequencers and atmospheres, the seven pieces on Lost Links, running 67 minutes in total, cover … Read more
  • LOST LINKS – review by Ran Kirlian
    El nuevo trabajo de Max Corbacho se titula Lost Links, un trabajo que supone el regreso a su habitual línea compositiva etérea y melódica tras el atmosférico y algo más abstracto Deep Time, aunque en esta ocasión con la sorpresa de ser un recopilatorio de piezas olvidadas y descartadas. Perfectamente ubicable entre álbumes como Nocturnal … Read more
  • LOST LINKS – review by Bert Strolenberg
    For “Lost Links”, the first volume in a series, Max Corbacho assembled a collection of tracks which were shelved in his archive although they were initially composed to fit on a concept album, compilation or into a commisioned project. Known for his well-crafted and expansive/atmospheric music, Mr Corbacho oncemore hits the mark with his expressive, … Read more
  • DEEP TIME – review by SONIC CURIOSITY
      This release from 2011 offers 74 minutes of sparkling ambience. Three tracks comprise this release, and they are long, really long, allowing the songs to gradually evolve and excellently establish a mood of cosmic infinity. Atmospheric tones dominate the first piece, creating a panorama of limitless scope that suits the tenuous music’s sparse definition. … Read more
  • FAR BEYOND THE IMMOBILE POINT – review by eyes cast down
    by eyes cast down on April 28, 2011 I think Max Corbacho is driven by a love of life’s great mysteries. His music is fully informed and animated by this, by (as I’m hearing it) a quest for something transcendent, something far beyond our conventional, mundane states of being. I believe that, in this respect, … Read more
  • DEEP TIME – review by Hypnagogue
      Having most recently lifted listeners upward with the celestial/sacred drifts of Ars Lucis, Max Corbacho turns the sound around and heads downward in the penumbral, primal and purposely murky spaces of Deep Time. For people who’ve listened to Corbacho in the past, this new release is a distinct departure, a strictly atmospheric work of … Read more
  • FAR BEYOND THE IMMOBILE POINT – review by Bert Strolember
    Bert Strolember, Sonicimmersion This is the second release of Spanish composer Max Corbacho, presenting a collection of seven non-rhythmic, highly atmospheric ambient space tracks, so taking a different road than was heard on his nice debut «Vestiges». The inspiration for «Far beyond the Immobile Point» actually came from the first chapter of Umberto Eco´s novel … Read more
  • ARS LUCIS – review by Richard Gürtler
    I always wanted to write few lines on this masterwork, so now it’s finally the right time. But first of all, I must say this is not the newest work of Max Corbacho, in Barcelona based composer. Max has released at the end of December 2010, «Deep Time» download only album, but since I am … Read more
  • DEEP TIME – review by A Ultima Fronteira Radio
      Nuevo trabajo del gran Max Corbacho un compositor que siempre nos deleita con su música que parece extraída de las profundidades, de esos lugares recónditos de nuestro planeta, del espacio y de nuestro ser.«Deep Time» es el título de este nuevo disco, un título que nos ilustra y nos muestra el camino de lo … Read more
  • DEEP TIME – review by Ran Kirlian
      Max Corbacho acaba de publicar Deep Time, su más reciente trabajo, con el que nos propone un nuevo e intenso viaje sonoro que, en esta ocasión, pretende ilustrar un mundo más terrenal que cósmico con una obra que en muchos sentidos se aleja de sus trabajos habituales. De nuevo Corbacho nos obsequia con sus … Read more
  • DEEP TIME – review by Bert Strolemberg
      With the album “Deep Time”, Spanish sound designer and musician Max Corbacho invites us to travel far back in time with a textural work, made up of an assortment of “primal sounds next to an almost palpable sense of the first formings of Order from the chaotic soup of antiquity”. Those looking for expansive, … Read more
  • ARS LUCIS – review by Hypnagogue
      Max Corbacho returns with a long-form disc of his signature lighter-than-air drifts in Ars Lucis.  Corbacho’s constructs float in higher registers, airy choral sounds occasionally lifted by a bass rumble updraft. This is, as the cover art suggests, a soundtrack for watching light filter through stained glass in a sacred space. Notes spiral angelically … Read more

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