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
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
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
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
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
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
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 word talisman [from Arabic tilasm, from Late Greek telesma, from Greek telein: consecration ceremony, to consecrate, fulfil; from telos: result.] refers to a magical object which can give the bearer fortune, good luck and magical protection. In Jungian psychology, talisman is a word used to denote a pivotal or key symbol in a dream … Read more
Stéphan Geschiere , independent reviewer, Holland «The Talisman feels like awakening in an ever-evolving ocean of pure sonic bliss» …tapped from Max Corbacho’s deepest sound-research, one of Spain’s finest soundpainters, here he represents his latest most exquisite release to date, ‘The Talisman’. Working, studying, digging on this sacred project for quite some time, envelopping, constucting, … Read more
Chuck van Zyl Host: Star’s End http://www.starsend.org chuckv@starsend.org «It is especially incumbent upon every spacemusician to know and understand the audience for which their music is produced. In this genre of aural impressionism and sonic expressionism it is the audience who completes each piece in the listening. On the cryptically entitled «Far Beyond TheImmobile … Read more