Maxim Marlo

I’m Maxim Marlo, a Costa Rica-based artist creating world, ambient, ceremonial and acoustic music, soundscapes and immersive live experiences. I create worlds through music that people can step into. Music that holds space rather than fills it. Music to experience, not only to listen to. Through voice, acoustic and world instruments, ambient textures, rhythm, improvisation and elements of nature, I look for the most direct way from spirit, heart and human experience into sound. My journey took me from the start-up hustle of London and Berlin to the jungles of Costa Rica. Letting go of the life I had built, I followed my heart into the unknown. With my first song Ocean, I began a new chapter, living more aligned with my soul. Today my music moves between acoustic songs, world instruments, ambient and cinematic textures, devotional and ceremonial influences, rhythm, improvisation and electronic elements. Rather than staying inside one genre I'm more interested in finding the sound a particular feeling or experience asks for. These different threads increasingly come together as one musical world, in my recordings and in immersive live experiences that move between song, stillness, rhythm, atmosphere and shared participation. Different forms, one golden thread: transformation through sound.