MAX CORBACHO[Max Corbacho has been creating Ambient Atmospheric – Electronic Music for over two decades, combining spiraling, synth-driven drifting harmonies with breathing, timeless soundscapes.][Ambient Atmospheric – Electronic Music - Soundscapes - Space Music]

BREATHSTREAM – review by MysticJaguar

max — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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 his very good ‘The Resonant Memory of Earth’.

This work is a ‘near’ masterpiece because the 2nd track ‘Act of Light’ is a little too dark and rambly. Contrast this to the 6th track ‘Temple of Dissolution’ which is one of the most powerful pieces of sound work I have ever heard. These tracks are especially great for meditation or creative tasks including cloud or surf watching .

If you are into Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, or similar, then you will find this work very suprising and gratifying.

THE RESONANT / Morpheus Music

max — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Morpheus Music & The Mall Magazine

MUSIC

Smooth, synthetic ambient zones. This is an album of immersive atmopheres without beat or melody, designed to set the listener adrift. Welling up like waves on the shore, washes of tone arise and roll one over another in constant succession – some deep and sonorous, some light, thin, others full of sonic detritus caught in the tide – percussive rattles like churning pebbles. Ever-receeding surges of sound drain back into the next wave. As the album pulls away from the shoreline the electronic ocean becomes dark and obscure in places, floating forms drifting by, heavy masses of tone heaving and pulling. Tracks blend one into another, the only indication of a progression usually being a lessening of intensity, a lightness as if surfacing momentarily. New tracks subtly intorduce fresh voices into the mix and some shifts of scale.

ARTWORK

Liquid ripples and solarised reflections fill two panels of the cover booklet in rich blues, turquoises, terracotta hues and dark shadows. The title text sitting in a heavy border of shadow near the base. On the reverse an ambiguous out of focus photo-image works as backdrop for the titles and an explanation of the project. Within we find a gear list, recording details and credits, some special thanks and contact information – this is presented on a white background with an accompanying monochrome reflection image.

OVERALL

For his third album, Max Corbacho presents four longform pieces ranging from just over six minutes to thirty eight minutes fifteen seconds. Designed for continuous playback – the tone is generally a serious one drifting somewhere in between warmth and cold. The concept behind the music is that of the «earth call» – what Max describes as «that feeling pulling us away from the cities to seek contact with the rock, the earth and water …». A strong sense of space with something of the viscosity of liquid pervades this album – the listener is able to feel suspended in sound, surrounded in all directions, afloat, immersed

VESTIGES / Lloyd Barde, «Backroads Music»

max — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Lloyd Barde /»Backroads Music»

«In the realm of Roach’s «Dreamtime Return,» but vibrant and unique in its own right, this CD by Max Corbacho seems to touch all the right regions of space drift, tribal ambient, and those carving, penetrating textures that we are all so fond of. In Max’s own words, «Welcome. If you like ambient, electronic, contemplative, instrumental music, then please listen. This music is born of feelings and emotions, reflecting certain aspects of Nature, often the desolate and isolated places. From within the mind this music brings vision –the sounds of hallucination. Take this music with you. Leave the noise of the city. Find a distant high place. Now rest . . . contemplate the infinite.» It’s the discovery of a new star in space, & word is traveling fast through the galaxies.»