Corbacho's second release at SFM. Tribal ambience in the Steve Roach school of music style.

"73+ min long form work that slowly drift along transparent synthwashes, developing through silent landscapes in his formation, almost hostile, sometimes underground, always stony, ancient. This CD conjures up an amazing world that we feel remotely past, like a forgotten sanctuary, approaching the sonorous
aridity to human senses..

Max Corbacho - Digital and analog modeling synthesizers, samplers, natural field recordings and computer sound processing.

It is about the "earth call." That feeling pulling us away from the cities to seek contact with nature.

"The Resonant Memory of Earth" from Spanish synthesizer artist, Max Corbacho, is seventy-three minutes of uniterrupted immersion into smooth, waving, and mysterious atmospheres created for continuous playback.

Max Corbacho - Digital and analog modeling synthesizers, samplers, natural field recordings and computer sound processing.

Max Corbacho - "The Resonant Memory of Earth"
(SpaceForMusic.com, sfmMC1041, CD, 2002)

mp3.com's loss is Tony Gerber's gain. As musicians leave mp3.com in droves following its restructuring in 2001, Gerber's SpaceForMusic.com label is grabbing up a fair number of them. Gerber does a fair job of separating the wheat from the chaff with artists like Craig Padilla and Max Corbacho now in the fold. Corbacho continues in the musical direction he forged on Vestiges and Far Beyond The Immobile Point, moving ever outward into the reaches of deep space music. Whereas Vestiges had some tribal elements, his next release was more expansive, and this CD continues that trend even further. Though technically four tracks, there is a continuous flow of 73 minutes of surreal soundscapes. Long slow synth pads, lush and thick, draw the listener in, with plenty of atmospheric touches and effects. "Remote Sensing" does nothing to dispel the notion that Corbacho is the "Spanish Steve Roach," as this compares favorably with notable Roach works like The Dream Circle and The Magnificent Void. Bright shimmering sounds meld with dark churning drones to great effect. The rich metallic character reaches its peak in "Magenta Beauty," as the music conjures up vivid mental pictures. The 38-minute title track closes the disc out in dreamy style. The entire disc will send you into a deep reverie you won't soon want to leave.

2002 (c) Phil Derby / Exposé Magazine