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"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, 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.' 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 pretense, 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.'"
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Color vinyl version. "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, 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.' 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 pretense, 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.'"
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Exit Rumination is the sophomore album from Vancouver's C. Diab. A meditative sound exploration for bowed guitar, trumpet, and subtle tape manipulations that are iridescent of Colin Stetson, Tim Hecker, Arthur Russell, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Exit Rumination is a beautiful intersection between leftfield ambient music, film score, post-classical solo cello, American folk music, and post-rock.
"Soaring bowed melodies . . . mired in ancient grainy tape sound . . . [Canada's] folk-inflected epic musics sound totally fresh in C. Diab's hands." --The Wire
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No Perfect Wave is the proper debut album from Vancouver's C. Diab. A meditative sound exploration for bowed guitar, trumpet and subtle tape manipulations that brings to mind Colin Stetson, Tim Hecker, Arthur Russell and Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack (1966) in equal measure. No Perfect Wave hits a strange and beautiful intersection between left-field ambient music, film score, post-classical solo cello, American folk music and post-rock. First physical release for the newly-launched Injazero Records, run by two ex-FatCat staffers. 180 gram vinyl. "There's a melancholic, broken beauty in C. Diab's music... think Godspeed You! Black Emperor at their least bleak." -- Vancouver Weekly.
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