A rather quick Organ Thing of the Day today, a taste on the new C.Diab album. This new just in…

“Hey Organ, hope all is well. A heads-up on Imerro, released 16th February, the new album from critically acclaimed Canadian bowed guitarist and multi-instrumentalist C. Diab.

 Caton Diab (real name) 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”.

“C. Diab’s new album is a collection of song odes to both heat and desire, closely felt. 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.”


‘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, Injazero) and subsequent releases ‘Exit Rumination’ (2018), ‘White Whale’ (2020) and ‘In Love & Fracture’ (2021). The Wire magazine said of C. Diab’s music, “ambient music in the best sense – music for living, which can be both non-invasive and immersive…epic…totally fresh.”

There are another couple of tracks to be heard right now on the Bandcamp page and more can be found here. We’ll be back with a full album review later….