C. Diab – Imerro LP

Caton Diab creates soundscapes that evoke the spectacular wilderness of his childhood home in northern Vancouver Island. Incorporating experimental textures, folk overtones and tape manipulations, C. Diab uniquely finds the unseen spaces in-between, and fittingly dubs his creations “post-classical grunge”. Imerro explores new sonic realms and is the culmination of a sound world that Diab has built up since the critically acclaimed No Perfect Wave (2016) and subsequent releases Exit Rumination (2018), White Whale (2020) and In Love & Fracture (2021). The Wire calls it "ambient music in the best sense—music for living, which can be both non-invasive and immersive... epic" Imerro was recorded in late July and August of 2021 at Risque Disque Studio in Cedar, BC, during the summer’s unprecedented second “heat dome”, which saw temperatures soaring to over 40 degrees. Recorded with regular collaborator and engineer Jonathan Paul Stewart, the pair journeyed by boat to the studio to a place with minimal distraction with a plan of “simple ecstatic improvisation.” Diab explains: “I wanted to place myself in a space for creation with little thematic pretence, with the belief that music ‘shows its face’ as you move along. I would pick up an instrument, whether I had experience playing it or not, and make a sound. If it wanted to be played, it would play.”

Label: Tonal Union – TU005LP

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album

Country: UK & Europe

Released: Feb 16, 2024

Genre: Electronic, Rock, Classical, Folk, World, & Country

Style: Ambient, Experimental, Neofolk, Modern Classical, Drone, Post Rock, Psychedelic, Fusion

Tracklist

A1 Ourselves At Least

A2 Lunar Barge

A3 The Excuse Of Fiction

A4 Quatsino Sound

B1 Crypsis

B2 Erratum

B3 Tiny Umbrellas

B4 You'll Never Come To Dorset

B5 Surge Savard