Max Corbacho - This Luminous Space - Ambient Music

Track: This Luminous Space
Album: BreathStream - Max Corbacho
Genre: Ambient Music
Expansive, drifting ambient zones - beatless, minimal. The series of compositions on BreathStream are smooth, flowing sonic states that fade seamlessly one into another creating an unbroken listening experience. Airy drones and steady velvet washes gently rise and fall in graceful slow motion, the sound thickening into harmonious even tone in places, then dispersing into almost atonal enormity. At times the intensity of the music drops down low as if the listener were increasingly isolated, distant, remote - or perhaps simply more profoundly at rest, wholly immersed and almost motionless. Beguiling effects burble or flutter on the peripheries, little motes and flickers some barely perceived, sonic breezes drifting through the aural space.


MOOD

The most pervasive mood here is one of almost blissful submission - a captivating serenity imbued with a sense of enveloping immensity. The track titles effectively draw together strands of galactic isolation and deeply personal inner experience - The Great Breath, This Luminous Space, No Day nor Night, Pure Being. Max's music suggests the tranquil euphoria of being suspended weightless among morphing luminous nebulae, warm clouds of shifting colour, beautiful dreams and faintly recalled memories.


ARTWORK

The Breath Stream jewelcase is a deep, dark spacey blue package. Initially the main image appears as a view of infinite space - closer inspection reveals a horizon, one bright spiralling arm laid out like a flat plain stretching away into the distance. Above starlike clusters form further spirals, spirals of spirals - clusters of imaginary galaxies. Similar visuals fill the rear cover - an unobtrusive tracklist hanging in the upper left quadrant - times alongside. The two panel insert opens to display a closer view of the front cover image - here focussed on the foreground - a little like a glass bottomed boat to the universe. Information is minimal - credits to the left a quote from Vietnamese Monk Thich Nhat Hanh to the right - "Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts."


OVERALL

Breath Stream builds upon the solid foundation laid down by Max Corbacho's previous release The Talisman. Coming now as the eighth release from this rising Spanish ambient star - the new album exhibits a formidable depth of sound unveiled with masterful restraint. Much of the music arose from long improvisational sessions utilising Max's collection of hardware synths, catching those moments of magic - selecting and arranging the most absorbing passages into unbroken flow. The album is to be the first of a series of digital releases, offering downloads at iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic and Napster, among others, and, also, full CD quality downloads through the well respected new download platform www.musiczeit.com. Catch some samples at the Musiczeit page.


WHO WILL LIKE THIS ALBUM

If you enjoyed The Talisman then Breath Stream will take you further into the rapture and beauty of Max's enormous musical space. This is a release for fans of warm, inviting, minimal ambience with the soft sonic density of Thom Brennan, Numina and Steve Roach. No beats - just infinite space - effulgent, dark, rich in colour, perpetually black.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 'max corbacho'
• 'ambient music'
• atmospheric
• space
• electronic
• steve roach
• meditation
• mindfulness
• synthesizers

[Zacq768]

@geoped1

Wow you were doing so well with that big paragraph.. and then you brought god into it.

Sigh.

[geoped1]

The galaxies, in the video, rush by like snowflakes, illumined by a vehicle's headlights... they look so tiny. But in reality, they are vast and mostly spacious...so my mind, my soul, my inner 'me', wraps virtual arms around them in a conceptual embrace...; then I come to my senses and realize..., whilst I might possess it all in ratiocination, I'm but a tiny spec of dust... insignificant. Yet something inside me protests against the notion of insignificance...in the image of God is what I am.

[morjhult666]

@geoped1 spec of dust in cosmic sand.... it is as rewarding to comprehend as it is blinding to actually believe that you comprehend it. comprehending the incomprehensible. you know so much about nothing at all. .

[haxbox7]

@Zacq768 God is not a person that we puny humans talk about, the true God is the space itself.

[etexman020202]

who cares how I spelled that word? I often don't proof read before I excitedly respond to emotional conservative/religious people. So I will use the already outdated term of "my bad". If you are religious, then you have already stifled your own intellect.

[geoped1]

@etexman020202 You sound decidedly intelligent. "Professing themselves wise..., they became fools." BTW, the word is "deScendant", Mr. Instine.

[LunaSomnium]

@geoped1 nice :)

[ARCEYE78]

@geoped1 Man spoils everything.

[ARCEYE78]

@Zacq768 You took the words right from my mouth LOL!!

[nowbellhere]

Wow! Captivating blend of a musical soundscape with the awe and wonder of the universe...

[fourplusseven]

Thanks for being so sensitive in your end-fade.

[Thejournalist2007]

It's all good, and this song is proof of it.