El nuevo trabajo de Max Corbacho es uno de esos discos que van desplegándose a medida que los vuelves a escuchar una y otra vez, revelando su profundidad poco a poco, de manera que un buen día te encuentras sumergido en sus paisajes sonoros con una sensación difícil de definir, como si las piezas empezaran a encajar, … Read more
Per la prima volta fuori dal catalogo della sua ad21 – etichetta condivisa con Bruno Sanfilippo– Max Corbacho torna ad incidere un disco a ben tre anni dal capolavoro “The Ocean Inside”. Un lavoro che segna un cambio di prospettiva di una certa importanza nella carriera dell’artista spagnolo, forse il più abile e talentuoso fra gli esponenti dell’ultima … Read more
Since the release of his debut album Vestiges in 1998, Max Corbacho has worked towards progressively refining an electronic music style that’s been described as ‘Ambient Atmospheric – Space Music.’ That he has close ties to Bruno Sanfilippo, with whom he established the ad21 label and collaborated on two albums (2003’s Indalo, 2012’s Bioma), also says much about the … 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
It’s been nearly two and a half years since Max Corbacho released his last album, The Ocean Inside, which was an epic two and a half hour journey through monumental soundscapes and gorgeous atmospheres, the entire album an ambient masterpiece, concluding with the hauntingly beautiful Deeper Into the Ocean, a song I wished would never … Read more
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
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