Max Corbacho

Spanish ambient space music composer Max Corbacho has long drawn on digital and analog synthesizers, samples, natural field recordings, and signal processing, though the balance among these elements has changed across his output. Raised in Badajoz province, he began with guitar lessons in his youth and spent time performing electric guitar in several regional rock outfits before turning his focus to keyboards and electronic composition. Early exposure to Tangerine Dream and Vangelis gave way to later influences that included Brian Eno, Steve Roach, and Robert Rich.

His debut solo album, Vestiges, appeared in 1999 and evoked the sounds of the universe, while the second release, Far Beyond the Immobile Point, turned toward the darkness of deep space. The 2002 album The Resonant Memory of Earth sustained this line of exploration. Two projects reached the public in 2003: Nocturnal Emanations and Indalo, the latter a collaboration with Argentinian composer and instrumentalist Bruno Sanfilippo. Further recordings issued on ad21music included Moontribe in 2004, The Talisman in 2006, and Breathstream in 2008. Ars Lucis followed in 2009, and the next three years brought Deep Time, Lost Links, Bioma, and the double album The Ocean Inside, each emphasizing ethereal atmospheres that moved still farther from traditional forms and melody. Both Future Terrain and Splendid Labyrinths surfaced in 2015. An expanded edition of Future Terrain, running more than seventy minutes, was issued in early 2017 and was followed later that year by Nocturnes.