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Canadian bowed guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Caton Diab (.diab) pictured here with the newly released album ‘Imerro’.

‘Imerro’ finds Caton at his most expressive and free-spirited. Inviting the music to find him, almost by osmosis, foregoing any preconceptions of playing any instrument he is unfamiliar with or regrets not learning during adolescence. This is music for wide screens: the result is an undeniably evocative, moving and mysterious voyage.

Its title literally presented itself to Diab from a random page contained in a poem by Ezra Pound found in the book ‘The Imagist Poem’. Searching for its meaning, Diab discovered that Imerro is “a Greek word for ‘desire for, I desire you’, yet nothing could substantiate its truth. “It made sense, almost like it had chosen me. An obscure word for Desire, one that might not even exist, or is so ancient that nobody really remembers it meaning anything. It’s just a sound, like an album.”

Limited vinyl copies are out there in the world and it’s available to stream and download in all the usual places.

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C. Diab - Imerro (TU005)
Ltd LP/LP/Digital
released February 16, 2024

01. Ourselves At Least
02. Lunar Barge
03. The Excuse Of Fiction
04. Quatsino Sound
05. Crypsis
06. Erratum
07. Tiny Umbrellas
08. You’ll Never Come To Dorset
09. Surge Savard

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All tracks by .diab

Engineered and co-produced by Jonathan Paul Stewart () at .disque studio, Yellow Point, BC, Canada

Mixed by Jonathan Paul Stewart and C.Diab at Watch Yer Head Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Mastering in Bonn, Germany
Vinyl cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle Mastering in Berlin, Germany

Cover photography by Alex Waber
Art direction and design by
Management by

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