Dig is the debut album by the Canadian alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band I Mother Earth

I Mother Earth

I Mother Earth, or IME, was a Canadian alternative rock band. The band was at the peak of its popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s; its members have moved on to other projects.-Early years:...

, released by Capitol

Capitol Records

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 and EMI

EMI

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 on August 10, 1993. It went gold in Canada in its initial run, and today stands at platinum in Canada. It also won a Juno Award

Juno Award

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 in 1994 for Best Hard Rock Album.

The album was noted for its metallic

Heavy metal music

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 sound, balanced with psychedelic

Psychedelic music

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-style lyrics and instrumentals, and further backed by Latin percussion. The latter two were often brought into play during lengthy jam sessions.

Personnel

• Edwin
  Edwin (musician)
  Edwin is a Canadian alternative rock singer and solo artist from Toronto, and former lead vocalist for I Mother Earth. He was on the band's first two albums, and was also on the majority of the songs on Victor, a 1996 side project from Alex Lifeson of Rush. He went solo in late 1997 and released...
  
   – vocals
• Jagori Tanna
  Jagori Tanna
  Jagori Tanna is a Canadian musician. Together with his brother, Christian Tanna, he formed I Mother Earth around 1990. He wrote almost all of I Mother Earth's music, and produced much of it as well...
  
   – guitars, backing vocals, bass (actual performer)
• Bruce Gordon
  Bruce Gordon (musician)
  Bruce Gordon is a Canadian rock musician, best known as the bassist for I Mother Earth.He was born to parents of Scottish and German heritage. He immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of six...
  
   – bass (credited)
• Christian Tanna
  Christian Tanna
  Christian Tanna is a Canadian musician. He began playing drums in high school, and with his brother, Jagori Tanna, formed I Mother Earth in 1990. Tanna played on 1993's Dig, 1996's Scenery and Fish, 1999's Blue Green Orange, and 2003's The Quicksilver Meat Dream...
  
   - drums

Additional musicians

• Luis Conte
  Luis Conte
  Luis Conte is a Cuban percussionist.-Early years:As a child in Cuba, Conte began his musical odyssey playing the guitar. However, he soon switched to percussion, and that has remained his mode since....
  
   – percussion
• Armando Borg – percussion
• Mike Finnigan
  Mike Finnigan
  Mike Finnigan is an American keyboard player and vocalist, his specialty being the Hammond Organ.-Career:Finnigan has toured and sessioned for the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Etta James, Sam Moore, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dave Mason, Buddy Guy, Manhattan Transfer, Taj Mahal, Michael...
  
   – Hammond B3 organ

Track listing

(All songs written by "I Mother Earth", later revealed to be Jagori and Christian Tanna)

1. "The Mothers" – 2:34
2. "Levitate" – 4:57
3. "Rain Will Fall" – 5:18
4. "So Gently We Go
   So Gently We Go
   "So Gently We Go" is a song by Canadian rock band I Mother Earth, released as a single from their debut studio album, Dig. The song reached #1 on Canada's CANCON chart.-Charts:...
   
   " – 7:04
5. "Not Quite Sonic" – 5:55
6. "Production" – 4:00
7. "Lost My America" – 6:29
8. "No One" – 6:56
9. "Undone" – 5:06
10. "Basketball" – 5:12
11. "And the Experience" – 5:54
12. "The Universe in You" – 8:19