OKADA - Annihilation (excerpt)

Dear friends and listeners, 
Following the release of Future Terrain last month, it is the time of the album in which I have worked over the last year and the first months of 2015. I continued my work in the pursuit of purely atmospheric expression, in an attempt to convey this vital experience that pushes us forward in one direction within the labyrinth of life, the way that I call The Flowing Path. Splendid Labyrinths is a deep reflection on our journey through life, change, growth, discovery, movement and transformation at every step along the way. 
Original cover image rendering, design and layout by Michael Rodríguez Pletz www.domestika.org/es/michaelrpletz. 

Released as CD (factory pressed), as digital download through the usual stores (Bandcamp, Amazon, iTunes, etc), and through streaming services (Spotify, Rdio, etc). 
All the best, 
Max Corbacho

Review by Morpheus Music: 
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 density, they seem to stretch away into infinity and endless darkness whilst at the same time presenting more imminent audio formations that waft and furl like intangible filaments of smoke or warm currents in water. The ordering of the tracks is interesting: two long-form recordings on either side of the relatively brief Earth Womb and Wave of Reflection, this seems to reflect the cover image where a tight core is surrounded by larger structures. Much of the tonal nature of the music is uplifting, warm chords and heavenly synth voices suggestive of light and gentle ascendance holding the most proximate regions. 


ARTWORK	The front cover of Splendid Labyrinths features a vivid yellow-orange, mandala-like multi-disc bloom comprised of overlapping labyrinth discs. This is very much an image of many depths: the complexity of the layers revealing forms and patterns that arise and fall away according to one's focus. On one level, a simple flower design of twelve regular petals; on another level a three-dimensional bubble of infinite depths encircling a bewildering black hole. 

OVERALL 
Inspired by the landscape and sky of his origins in southwest of Spain, ambient master Max Corbacho composes music that references "the essence of the great and ineffable mystery of our existence." Splendid Labyrinths perhaps manages this with greater effect than ever. Released on the heels of Future Terrain, a track that "emerged in parallel ...during the long building sessions for Splendid Labyrinths", this latest album holds six recordings, four of which all hover somewhere around the fifteen-minute mark. Two shorter pieces lie in the central hub closer to six and eight minutes each Promotional material talks of "an atemporal quality" explored in recent releases following "maybe only the breathing and the pulse of the artist," very apt here. Visit the Max Corbacho website or Max Corbacho Bandcamp page for more information and opportunities to listen to the tracks of Splendid Labyrinths as well as previous releases. 
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The Flowing Path

DIGISEEDS is the first chapter in a series of Ultimae compilations conceptualized by Czech artist Lubos Cvrk aka Ambientium. As an electronic music stakhanovite, Lubos brought together composers from all around the world to create a story which slowly enwraps the listener in a soft and eerie ambient reverie. 

From minimal acoustic patterns melting into intense pads, ethereal dub lines blending with glitch, gentle electronica and a certain neo-classical aesthetics, DIGISEEDS paints new grounds and plays with textures to achieve a soothing and swirling dive in experience for the listener. 

Ambientium, in this first chapter, offers an emotive and exclusive mixed selection of 12 tracks from the composers Lars Leonhard (Germany), Martin Nonstatic (Austria) and One Arc Degree (Greece), known to the Ultimae realms, and plants new seeds with the participation of composers such as Ocoeur (France), Mandrax (Tasmania), Cloower Wooma (Russia), State Azure (UK), Jani R (Finland), Synapsia (UK) and himself (Czech Replublic).

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A transcendental journey into the oceans of sound within.

This album is a result of the convergence between the inner worlds of Daljit Kundi and Ludvig Cimbrelius.

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My second track working with the hugely talented Data Rebel - enjoy !

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Poemme - The Gentle Warmth Of Morning taken from the 'Day Arc' EP available on Elm Records 27/08/2017.

Music and photo by Angela Klimek

02. Poemme - The Gentle Warmth Of Morning

The origin of this track was inspired by the 2 note guitar riff behind the snare in the Tears for Fears song - The Working Hour.  [  you woudnt guess that by hearing it ]   
The cover art looks like a map of some islands but is actually made from the patterns of Ocelot markings.  
 Ocelots are a type of cat.  
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The opening track for a brand-new EP from In The Branches and Quiet Sector, a new project spawned from In The Branches. Quiet Sector takes the spacey sounds of ITB into a more future sci-fi territory, with synths being the primary instrument rather than guitars.

All proceeds from this EP will be donated to non-profit organizations that are actively working to remove plastic and microplastics from the environment.

Bandcamp:
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Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
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Ambient guitar music from Shane Cotee (The Adaptive, Quiet Sector, Infinite Brothers).

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