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
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 … Leer más
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 … Leer más