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]

THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Sonicimmersion.org

max — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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 flows and currents.

There’s a beautiful ebb and flow shifting through the emotive and profound ethereal sound paintings, taking the listener out into the spectacular of wide open, constantly shifting spaces which lack any melody.

This uninterrupted smooth alchemy of ambient/space sound architecture connects with the massive sound worlds Mr Roach was known for many years. This accomplished Spanish musician jumped on the power trail of drift music where Steve seems to have lost quite a bit of his magic in recent years, ending each disc with a long dreamy track.

All in all, the long form and beatless «The Ocean Inside» is gently evolving, pure atmospheric bliss evoking a beautiful sense of wonder and awe. This excellently produced and mastered ascent into the deep blue depth is highly recommended.

http://www.sonicimmersion.org/review.php?letter=C&review=72591

THE OCEAN INSIDE – Review by Landscape Music

max — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:09:51 +0000

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 realms of pure beauty. The Ocean Inside is a paradise of lush, cascading long chords, as oceanic waves, back and forth, in an eternal flow of shifting tones and spiraling harmonies. This is music aimed at energy, emotional and mental levels, for listeners who love deep, meditative ambient music.

With this awesome album Corbacho portrays a very personal and introspective journey divided in two parts: one in his now classical melodic and cosmic style full of beauty and dreams and the other one introducing a deeper and a bit darker scenario surrounded by massive amounts of pads and drones that takes us to the dephts of serenity, like laying in the ground of an infinite ocean. In the end, this album is just an acurated soundtrack of every human soul.

More than two years ago I started this project from a Eastern concept that has always been present in my work: the analogy that exists between the mind as an ocean, with constantly changing waves at the surface, and the inner stillness and silence at the depths. It is from this seed that brings me to the concept of «Oceanic», the word from which I have been developed each of the parts that make up the album. During the creation of these pieces, I tried to go as deep as I could into this bottomless ocean depths. The Ocean Inside is the record of that dive into the depths, the witness that what matters is not how deep you can go, if not the experience of that moment.

The Ocean Inside is a double album and is now available in ad21 store in 2-CD Digipack format and in Altera Orbe both FLAC and MP3 digital formats. Don’t miss it!!

BREATHSTREAM – review by eTripper

max — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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 CD’s cover-art shows a conceptual vantage-point between two, alternate, infinite universes, that coexist in the darkness of forever. «BreathStream» brillantly conjures up a spectacular score to a boundless, celestial cosmos, and the naked rapture to be encountered from such an inquiry. Highly Recommended!!

BREATHSTREAM / Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity

max — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity

This release from 2008 features 73 minutes of gentle ambience. Vibrant electronic textures are embellished by additional atmospherics to produce a lavish excursion into cerebral introspection.

Tonalities of rich definition and sparse substance flow with expansive deliberation, generating moods of rewarding depth. The tones are compelling despite their ethereal nature. Sustained chords swell and recede, approximating breathing and establishing cogent connections between the music and the listener’s lung capacity.

Amid this steadfast serenity, a series of sidereal sounds lend subtle garnishes, sprinkling the minimal tuneage with glittering augmentations, not unlike twinkling stars scattered throughout a majestic void. These auxiliary sonic decorations serve to provide a semblance of variation to the even temperament of the ambient foundation. The progression from track to track is seamless, crafted to maintain an uninterrupted stream of pacifying drones.

This music seeps into the flesh like a fine mist, spreading relaxation through the bloodstream and settling in the brain where its intended work truly commences with the suppression of external sensations, regulating body systems into a state which prospers psychic pursuits. The subject is left with their soul at easy access, while cognitive capacity remains undisturbed.

While basically devoid of complex melodic structure, these compositions thrive on their harmonic presence. Pulsations ebb and flow, generating a soothing milieu designed to eliminate external distractions and enhance meditative functions.

Corbacho is back again with a beautiful ambient album that express a deep sense of connection and unity.

BREATHSTREAM / Bert Strolenberg

max — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Bert Strolenberg, www.sonicimmersion.org

«BreathStream» is the first of a series of releases made available as digital download only. The sonic content is described by the Max Corbacho as «seven atmospheric spaces built out of synthetic textures and floating harmonies” which also graced the previous album «The Talisman». This 73-minute work indeed is a great outing in expansive spacious realms, both contemplative as smooth, gently wandering through long form spheres and infinite otherworldly spaces. The continuous flow of quiet soundscapes sparkles from time to time, as it takes another turn before drifting into another outreach of space vistas. All in all, “BreathStream” offers carefully moulded and layered dreamspheres that can compete with those of ”The Talisman”.Highly recommended for fans who love the floating tapestries of Thom Brennan, Steve Roach and alike.The album is available from MusicZeit, iTunes, Amazon, Rapsody and Napster.

Bert Strolenberg

THE TALISMAN – review by Matt Howarth

max — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Matt Howarth. SONIC CURIOSITY

This release from 2006 offers 72 minutes of calming ambience. Expansive tonalities conspire with dramatic electronics to generate lavish soundscapes linking abstract realms with human ambitions. Textures flow seamlessly, ascending to untold altitudes while simultaneously burrowing deep into the listener’s cerebellum. Ponderous tones swirl and coalesce while delicate embellishments waft through this sonic medium. Tenuous sounds gurgle softly in the distance, approaching to loom overhead as they evoke moody sedation.

Swaying from lobe to lobe, the harmonic streams connect instinct and deduction, blurring the distinctions between these ruminations with fragile structures of drifting resonance. Contemplation is urged into being, rousing cognitive associations between outer physicality and inner reflection.

While generally harmonic in nature, this music does possess a hint of melodic substance which remains meticulously just beyond clear perception, inciting the listener to reach past their peripheral hearing and discover an external psychic territory. This extraneous region is seasoned by luxurious electronic effects of subtle definition which suitably flavor the harmonic flow without interfering with the tuneage’s overall soothing efficacy.

Minimal substantiality adopts a greater proportion as the textural currents produce an infinite panorama of pensive disposition. Introspective passages are drenched with shrewdly crafted ambience that stimulates cellular memory, filling the listener’s mind with vast potential.

This music achieves a lofty presence very much in the vein of Steve Roach’s tranquil compositions.

INDALO / Marius-Christian Burcea, «Journeys to the Infinite

max — Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Marius-Christian Burcea, Host of «Journeys to the Infinite»

INDALO is one of the finest ambient albums I know. INDALO place the listener between Earth and Sky; from this midpoint existence slowly emerges the glowing reality hidden in spirit. In this benevolent ocean of sound the Ark of Inspiration will never sink.The musical texture have a natural flow, while harmonies define private spaces and elongated rhymes. A very soft dynamic level is an integral part of Indalo and it is important to listen to it near the threshold of hearing where, at the root of perception, the frontiers between waking and sleep are abolished.