Greetings to all. Indalo is here again!!  Waiting for all the new music to be revealed, and for those who have asked for the relaunch of Indalo for a long time, the digital edition is now available here in my Bandcamp store. In the coming days, it will be launched on all digital portals, Spotify, and all other Streaming services.
Indalo is a record taken from an old collaboration with my friend and composer Bruno Sanfilippo. Released in 2003 as a CD, for several years this work has been unavailable in any format, both digital and physical, in spite of being habitual in the schedules of radio stations like Heart of Space, Star’s End and others. After continuing receiving many requests from fans during all this time, and in response to this demand, Indalo will be available as a digital release through maxcorbacho.com. To further improve the experience and rediscovery of this work, two unreleased tracks have been  added to the original seven in the Bandcamp download. These two tracks were created during the year 2002 and presented as candidates to appear on the album. In the end, they were not selected and have remained hidden all these years. Today, I think the addition of these two forgotten tracks add interest to a work that many of my new followers do not know, but I think they will like it. The album, by express wish of Bruno, is credited only and definitely as a solo album by Max Corbacho in a new and redesigned cover art. Hope all you enjoy this music. Order the Digital Download direct from Bandcamp.
This is all for now, please keep in touch, I hope to send you more news soon!

All the best,
Max Corbacho

Dear friends, just a quick update: Right now there are already two albums completely finished, and I am pending to specify in which record label are going to be released. These issues sometimes go very slowly, I am eager to show these two albums to my followers, but must be patience. In addition to these two albums, I’m working on a new one right now and some more updates. In a few days, I will also announce the reissue, in digital format, of Indalo, an old collaboration album that has now been left as a solo album. More info soon!

Ambient artists Bruno Sanfilipo and Max Corbacho merge their considerable talents for Indalo, a brooding, eerie, powerful excursion into dark ambient soundscapes peppered with occasional ethno-tribal rhythms, filled with primal sensuality, and laced throughout with palpable mystery and ancient ritual. Use of echo drenched in moisture and field environmental recordings of nocturnal creatures lends the recording a distinct mixture of subterranean and deep jungle evocations, a juxtaposition which works amazingly well and is one hundred percent cohesive. The album opens with the 22-minute title track, a long expansive slowly developing piece, filled with deep rumblings, cavern-like sounds that are both animal and mineral in sonic characteristic and higher pitched whistling melodic drones, similar in character to spacemusic. Percussion, of the type normally associated with ethno-tribal ambient, infiltrates at the midpoint of the track, played with energy and passion amidst rising and falling swells of drones and washes, but the beats don’t stick around long, replaced by warm glowing electronic waves and a scattering of environmental sounds.

Six other tracks fill the rest of Indalo with everyting from burbbling fluid effects (heard at the start of «The Agave emerges on the dry earth») to spacious vast washes and drones floating over deep but subtle thunder-like rumblings to swirling almost oppressive drones counterpointed by organic-electronic pulses on «Lava Atmospheres» to «Cabo de Gata» which begins somewhat calm and placid with rattles shaken on top of the relatively quiet synths, but building into a dense multiple-layered drone that seems to be everywhere all at once. «A lucid dream of strange landscapes» has an air of desert desolation as the night creatures come forth and the air cools from the overpowering heat of the day and the full moon reveals a landscape carved out of rock and sand and cast in dark illusive shadows.

Indalo is not a recording that can be completely appreciated if played in the background where some of this album will come across only as so much drones and synths. The astute listener will either listen to this on excellent speakers in a dark quiet room or at least use headphones to fully absorb the subtle complexity of the mix. Indalo is highly charged with atmosphere and mood, so the more you can immerse yourself in the sounds from this CD, the more seductive you will find the recording to be. At times, the mood of the CD is actually peaceful (such as the majority of the closing track «Signs of former experiences»), albeit not syrupy sweet or ethereal, but rooted in the lack of noticeable tension in many places.

This CD is an easy recommendation to fans of this subgenre (darker drone ambient music) unless the person is so averse to some tribal elements (which are few and far between) that even a hint of their presence would ruin the experience for them. While the CD can be a tad monochromatic at times, as long as you don’t expect it to startle you or invigorate you, you’ll be thoroughly satisfied with this album.

review by Bill Binkelman

Paul Rijkens, Dutch progressive rockmagazine iO Pages

The Argentine Bruno Sanfilippo who lives and works in Spain is a versatile musician. This versatility can also strongly be heard in the album Indalo that he created in collaboration with the Spanish ambient specialst Corbacho. Corbacho already has made a number of special albums with rather intense music. In the summer of 2001 Corbacho en Sanfilippo made a trip to Almeria in Spain. The spectacular nature as well as the historic symbol Indalo inspired them in making this music.

It contains a range of naturesounds from Almeria that are added with the ambientsounds and the nearly ancient rhythms of the duo. This is music where artists like Steve Roach, Robert Rich and VidnaObmana are masters in but in where these gentlemen are also very well at home. The sounds are widely spun, almost like a wave, above the organic rhythms and intriguing atmospheres. The titletrack of almost 22 minutes, with which the CD opens, immediately takes the cake. Quietness is an important element in the music on this CD. In tracks like The Agave Emerges On The Dry Earth and Lava Atmospheres this quietness as a matter of speaking blows around the listener. This is a very special experience. Cabo De Gata and Petrified Wisdom are rather dark. The dreamy A Lucid Dream Of Strange Landscapes takes together the concept of the CD very well.

Highlight of the album in my opinion is Signs Of Former Experiences that almost has a heavenly atmosphere.

2004 – Paul Rijkens, Dutch progressive rockmagazine iO Pages.

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.

Chuck van Zyl, Host of «Star´s End

On Indalo (70’50»), Max Corbacho and Bruno Sanfilippo collaborate to produce a musical crosscurrent of directions and influences. This work tells of a shared spiritual imagination and of the steps each artist has taken toward enlightenment. Their detailed harmonic soundscapes portray the vast expanse of a timeless panorama. Travelers through this dark sonic landscape become part of the view – as are the composers, seen hovering around their musical themes. Elsewhere, lost within atonal washes, we peer into darkness. In these passages, the sustained ambiguity of this work converges with a profound stillness, and the strange rush of your own blood. Indalo is a ceremonial work based on the power of an inspirited place. Of all artforms, music has the unique ability to depict more than simply one moment frozen in space – and just as reality evolves over time, so does this album. It is a transportive listening experience and a fulfilling distraction to the psychological disquiet of the modern world.