Corbacho, Max

Artist: Max Corbacho + Bruno Sanfilippo
P: 2003
INDALO is the first collaboration work between both artists, inspired by a join trip to the South of Spain. The whole CD represents an exploratory excursion to atmospheric ambient textures of a dark and dreamy beauty, a deep kind of ritual echoes. Structurally this CD presents seven soundscapes, carefully placed, starting with some rythmic movements, from the walking groove of "Indalo", driving the listener over the atmospheric synth lines, to the more relaxed and introspective realms of the following tracks. The textures are made based on a mix of field recordings, computer manipulated samples and spontaneously created tracks on synths and samplers. Strange far-away noises, swirling windy ancient echoes, subtle percussions, distant acoustic sounds and undulating synthlayers conform this work, all selected and presented in a deep, full of emotion, organic experience.

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Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2021
LTD 200
A Connection to the Wonder reveals even more serene and gracious atmospheric interior spaces. Three long, deep sonic meditations make up Max Corbacho's new installment. Balanced carved resonations and dynamic sonic zones of transmutation, helping us to partake in an experience of beauty and honesty. Through his use of synthesizers and processors, Max's music connects with the magical reality of infinite moments in the present time, as the title states, "A Connection to the Wonder". The album travels on a mystical and revealing pilgrimage through immaterial layers of gracefully expansive synths and magmatic drones, that reach unfathomable depths, ending in a celestial journey of sweeping analog synth layers.
Like all Max's albums, this music is created to be heard as a sound incense background at a low or medium level, but also in a more active way at a higher volume. Either case, the immersive experience is total and unique. A Connection to the Wonder, a sanctuary of tranquility and warm, enveloping positive energy outside of time and space.
 

Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2009 / 2019
Max Corbacho returns with a long-form disc of his signature lighter-than-air drifts in Ars Lucis. Corbacho’s constructs float in higher registers, airy choral sounds occasionally lifted by a bass rumble updraft. This is, as the cover art suggests, a soundtrack for watching light filter through stained glass in a sacred space. Notes spiral angelically upwards in a slow dance, gracefully filling the air. There’s a delicate feel to the work here, as though a single touch would shatter it into glistening fragments. Ars Lucis is a disc that truly comes into its own when played as a low-volume loop, and it’s an ideal meditation CD. Although split into seven tracks, it plays as a seamless flow. The music here clearly resonates with Steve Roach’s influence on Corbacho’s style—I hear it in the slow-motion layering, the depth and soft elegance of sound that calls to mind the Quiet Music series. (I also hear hushed memories of Giles Reaves’ Sacred Space.) But influences aside, this is true-to-form Corbacho, with all the gentle beauty he’s exhibited in his past releases. It’s a welcome return from a talented ambient artist.

Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2023
LTD 200
A ghostly twilight light invades the beginning of this new album by ambient artist Max Corbacho. If this sound emanating effortlessly from the depths of Max's studio can be transcribed into color, the chosen color would be sunset magenta. The whispering, slow synth lines come and go in a wave of blurred sound, thus unidentifiable, in a sea of reverberation, echoes and resonances in the ocean of time. Max Corbacho traces in these three pieces the quintessence of his art developed for more than 20 years with a mysterious creation. An epiphany of pure, atmospheric and minimal ambient sound.

Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2020
LTD 200
Long form magic by one of the undisputable Maestros of the deepest sonic meditations!!! With "Dreaming Spaces" we are entering voluminously immersing and intricately tenebrous zones, where spectacularly sinuous, colossally magmatic and gracefully expansive drone layers eternally commingle with myriad of blossomingly ascending tapestries, no matter if balmily ear-tickling, organically shimmering or dissonantly mind-bending. Breathtakingly epic transmutations await here, the ultimate masterwork!!!

Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2019
Spanish producer Max Corbacho has been creating atmospheric ambient music for over 20 years now and his newest ‘Echo and Longing’, just might be his most out of this world creation yet. The title song welcomes you to the beginning of an unknown and other-worldly vast space. A cavernous space that is as majestic as it is mysterious. Like the title of the song and album it has long droning tones developing effortlessly in heavy echo. Eerie, awe-inspiring and almost too powerful to describe, this track is a language almost as if the universe’s secrets are being revealed to man. Expansive is an understatement. One of the most moving audio examples of creating an enviorment I have heard and the last few minutes are breathtaking. ‘Embryo of Drones’ continues the wonderment thru this new world with a bit more crystalized and faster moving tones. Ever-evolving and with a more complex language this track makes a nice spatial bridge to the finally. ‘The Noble Beyond’ makes the odyssey all worthwhile as you enter its paradise. Dynamic and immersive it allows you to wander around its garden of sounds that surround you without fear. You are rewarded in a beautiful and an angelic manner as the song moves thru to more found peacefulness as it slowly fades. A well paced, bridged and complete release, Max Corbacho continues to create landscapes and journeys worth revisiting again and again. Max is one of the best at this craft.

Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2022
LTD 200
Equinox is a sound distillation from an idea created in 2019 that has taken definitive form in recent months as a serene, breathing, bright and positive long track. Distinct, undulating streams of synths create a silky smooth, emotionally caressing plot, slowly moving in gentle spirals of majestic chords. The mesmerizing, dreamy texture lingers for nearly 74 minutes to deliver a calming session of soothing back and forth, like a gentle wave of sound with a shimmering light. Powerful synthesizers make a statement of presence and unity throughout the piece, an atmospheric invitation to celebrate the passing of the different life stages. Here again, Max Corbacho excavates a sound sculpture based on honesty and independence as a distinctive mark from the beginning of his career as an ambient space producer more than twenty years ago. A piece for equanimity, hope and positivity, a synth meditation celebrating sonic alignment with life and wholeness.

Max Corbacho: Sequential / Oberheim OB6, Sequential / Oberheim OB6 Desktop Module, Yorick Tech Low-Frequency Expander, Korg Triton Extreme + Moss (Z1) Board Synth, Nord Lead 2, Access Virus Ti, Lexicon PCM-80 reverb, Eventide Eclipse, Boss Giga Delay DD20, Soundcraft Mixer and JBL Studio Monitors.

Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2000
The music is a slow landscape of organic, waving, and mysterious atmospheres. Max Corbacho completes some ways begun in Vestiges, but of an absolutely atmospheric form. Across all four tracks that compose the album, Corbacho brings the listener to a new state of acoustic perception, inducing a state of semi drowsiness, increased by the down tempo, the sinuous movement of the mysterious sonorous currents and the subtle, fine harmonic architecture, ever mutating and regenerating.Soft coiling and morphing textures, heavy atmospheric textural music for a deep drift into the dimensions of space, time and place.
"I hope you all are appreciating this gem and masterpiece of ambient electronic space music. This is music rich in experience and expertly crafted."

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Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2018
This Album from Max is both a majestic and mysterious journey through revealing structured events'HORIZON MATRIX' It delivers a wonderful sense of vast spaces and affords the listener the "space" to enjoy them. With this release, Max continues his personal ambient journey of spectacular soundscapes, a journey that is really best felt when followed from it's inception.

Artist: Max Corbacho
P: 2021
LTD 200
On Disc 1, there are nine new tracks rescued from Max Corbacho's archives. Some were included in compilations, and others are completely unreleased. Disc 2 contains the original album released by Relaxed Machinery.

- Catacombs of Perception, Slow Thunder, and Third Exposure are three pieces that belonged to an early version of The Talisman.
- The Present Miracle and Ceremonial Sky (included in the soundtrack of the cult game Neocron) are pieces that were created around 2001–2002.
- After Dream, North Rose Alignment, and Beyond Vaults were created for Ars Lucis but were ultimately not included in the album.
- Oversoul and Slow Rust were included in compilations for the Atmoworks and Relaxed Machinery labels, respectively.
- In Mind, Spirit, and Light was created in 2006 and never released.
- Earthflow Trance was specially composed for a concert in 2005.
- One True Light and Mandala were created during the sessions for BreathStream.
- Endless Formations was created for a collaboration album that was not made.