Bert Strolenberg , Journalist E-dition magazine, www.e-ditionmag.com

Max Corbacho’s brandnew album «The Talisman» is another great, highly atmospheric journey. It features 72 minutes of expansive and in-depth textural music with a strong cinematic and dreamy impact, spread out over 11 tracks. The title track is certainly one of the highlights, entering both wonderful as heavenly atmospheres that linger on and on.

A stunning & very well produced album that will absolutely please fans of Steve Roach, Amir Baghiri and all who love state-of-the-art soundscape music»

Phil Derby / Electroambient Space

I only became aware of Bruno Sanfilippo this year, as he sent me a couple of his solo works, richly complex music that defies easy categorization as ambient, new age, or something else. On this release, he teams up with a familiar favorite, Max Corbacho. We get started right away with the centerpiece, the 20-minute “Indalo.” Bright feather-light metallic shimmers surround a strange swirling siren song. Melancholy strings meld into the mix, as does lightly shuffling percussion that gradually grows until it is front and center. Allowed to dominate briefly, the beat then fades entirely from view, leaving the smoothly spiraling drones in its wake. Birds add a nice touch at the end. Gently lapping waves mark the seamless transition to track two, a subtly shifting slice of ambience. In the running for my favorite ambient song title is “Lava Atmospheres,” an expansive piece with deep echoes and just the right degree of graininess and grit. Even more reverberant is “Cabo de Gata,” firmly in the realms of Steve Roach’s The Magnificent Void. I always gravitate toward Roach as a reference point when discussing Max’s work, and this collaboration with Bruno is no exception. But I never mean it as anything but a compliment. There is plenty of room for Roach and Corbacho in the genre, and Sanfilippo is certainly welcome too, given the fine results here.

© 2004 Phil Derby / Electroambient Space

Bert Strolemberg. Klem Magazine, Issue 116.

«After a long search this talented Spanish ambient musician has found a new home to publish his new cd. This is Cobacho’s 3rd album, and again it has become one of pure beauty. There are 4 lenghthy tracks, the last one being the 38 min. titletrac.

They all are absolute candy for the ears. In fact, this cd offers one vast drift of transparent, non-rhythmic soundscapes; these soft coiling and morphing textures are one continues drift into the outer regions, where mysterious undercurrents escort you along the way. The title-track is the only one which features a heavy ambient beat after appr. 20 min. This is heavy atmospheric textural music for a deep drift into the dimensions of space, time and place, sometimes somewhat reminiscent to the stuff of Steve Roach, but with an nice core-sound to it all. Production & soundquality are superb.

Caleb Deupree , Ambient Visions

«Max Corbacho’s new release, Resonant Memory of Earth, should appeal to lovers of slow, quiet, dreamy ambience such as James Johnson’s Entering Twilight and the second disc of Steve Roach’s Dreamtime Return. Although nominally divided into four tracks, Resonant Memory is really a 73-minute opus with no breaks and few overt differences between the separate pieces.

Most of the album is composed of long, sweeping motions, too protean in form to be considered drones. Overtones from single pitches slowly divide and merge into each other, fed by occasional swaths of white noise. There are hints of melodies in Lands of Sacred Silence, and the distant promise of wildlife and morning birdsong in the beautiful long title track that closes the album, but elsewhere we hear gentle shimmering, poised halfway between sleep and waking.

The ambience is still and beatless except for a ten-minute interlude in the title track, where Corbacho introduces a simple rhythm loop of hand drums and seed rattles. Corbacho is a Spanish artist whose previous releases have been highly praised, and which focus on summer nights and nocturnal breezes. With this release, he provides a very spacious sound, layering the sonorities between both channels and with enormous reverberation that gives the listener a peaceful sense of distance.

Lloyd Barde / BackroadsMusic

«The second release from Spain’s Space Music ace is here! A bit deeper, darker and longer, this mp3 CD (like Giles Reaves’ «Sacred Space») is a serious space journey. There are less elements of a tribal nature on this one, and the «desert soundscape» aspect of the debut, «Vestiges» are not as audible, but the journey is nonetheless remarkable in its depth and reach. Though the tracks are not as lengthy in general, the last three tracks spread out immensely, with the closing and title piece going on in a spiraling fashion for over 20 minutes. We feel that Max is a major force in the space music realm, and are very glad to be offering his music.».