STYLE Vast beatless zones and undulating velvet expanses: Splendid Labyrinths is an album of ambient immensity and immeasurable time. Max Corbacho’s latest release features heaving multi-layered drones that seem to drift in and out of focus and intensity like slow-motion sunlight filtering through gracefully moving storm clouds. These opulent sonic textures are of impressive fathomless … Read more
L’ambient music odierna si compone di un grosso ventaglio di scelte: generi e sottogeneri in forma multipla, intersezioni con l’attualità digitale e rappresentazioni con sfumature umorali, hanno prodotto un ampio raggio d’azione che, in verità, non è più controllabile all’occhio critico. Si è compiuto un processo di consolidamento, in cui l’iniziale e crescente audience di … Read more
Since he started out releasing music in 1999, accomplished composer Max Corbacho had delivered the ambient community a very nice and consistent collection of highly spherical ambiences. «Splendid Labyrinths» (following right after his download-only dark ambient recording «Future Terrain») is a next chapter in his what Max likes to refer to as his pursuit of … Read more
First Rain is a track from my 1998 album Vestiges. Digital Album available on my Bandcamp store. Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Thanks for listening, share it!http://maxcorbacho.bandcamp.com/track/first-rain
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
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 … Read more
A journery across astral realms, and thru magical portals. by eTripper «Talisman» conjures-up magical realms, and journeys to alternate realities on this CD. Where the ‘fantastic’ is «always nearer than the nearest heartbeat, and never farther away, than the furthest star». This music shimmers along within the ‘purgatory’ of an endless limbo, with a … Read more
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 … Read more
by eyes cast down on April 28, 2011 I think Max Corbacho is driven by a love of life’s great mysteries. His music is fully informed and animated by this, by (as I’m hearing it) a quest for something transcendent, something far beyond our conventional, mundane states of being. I believe that, in this respect, … Read more