LISTEN AND SHARE “CROCODILE”
AMIR DELUXE LP OUT OCTOBER 18 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 12
“[a voice] which soars from a throaty croon to a glass-shattering falsetto in a single breath” – BBC
“The promise was bigger than we ever imagined” – NPR
“22 year old musician Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad’s effortless and inherent talent has gained him quick notoriety among not only his fans in Europe but leaps and bounds beyond continental borders with the release of his debut album Amir” - Northern Transmissions
Tamino is very pleased to share details of a new deluxe version of his acclaimed debut album, Amir. It was released almost a year to the day since the record’s original release in October 2018.
The deluxe version of Amir, released October 18, 2019 through Arts & Crafts, will feature two recordings which originally missed the tracklisting for Amir. One of which, “Crocodile”, is available to stream today here.
LISTEN AND SHARE “CROCODILE”
The deluxe release will also feature two new live recordings, performed alongside the stunning Nagham Zikrayat Orchestra who also feature on the original album, two demo recordings of “Chambers” and “Tummy”, and two stark live recordings from a show at La Cigale in Paris from earlier in the Spring.
Amir was produced by PJ Maertens and Jo Francken, and recorded at both Maertens’ house in Belgium and at Audiworkx Studios in Holland.
WATCH TAMINO PERFORM LIVE ON NPR’S TINY DESK SESSIONS
It’s been a breakthrough year for 22-year-old Tamino Moharam Fouad, the Antwerp based musician of Egyptian and Lebanese heritage, with his voice infiltrating the far corners of Europe and beyond building a fanatical fanbase around his startling, visceral, and stirring emotive sound. In November, Tamino returns to Antwerp to headline the Lotto Arena.
Amir is a record that is proving a real word-of-mouth success, ending 2018 in The Independent’s Albums of the Year and finding support on the BBC, NPR, and a variety of high-profile European television and radio stations. It’s not just the media that have been picking up on Tamino’s power, but fellow musicians too. This year Tamino has performed with Lana Del Rey at her request, and he counts Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood as a bandmate now (who also features on a selection of recordings on Amir playing bass guitar).
Although the majority of the playing heard on Amir is Tamino himself, he is joined by a collective of Arabic musicians based in Brussels called Nagham Zikrayat. The Firka (orchestra) is predominantly made up of professional musicians from the Middle East, most of which have refugee status having predominantly fled from Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia and Syria. Members of the orchestra are long-standing fans of Tamino’s late grandfather, a famous actor-musician in the golden age of Egyptian cinema. They contacted Tamino to request his performance at a concert in honour of his late grandfather. Not being a native speaker, Tamino politely declined but invited the orchestra to assist him in the making of Amir.
Tamino embarks on his debut North American tour, beginning Sep 11 in New York City (SOLD OUT), then makes his first appearance in Toronto on Sep 17 (SOLD OUT). Following this, Tamino will make a very special, first trip out to the Middle East and North Africa in October, taking in debut shows in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey. The demand for his arrival out there is testament to the word of mouth momentum that Amir has already accumulated outside the typical touring countries that he’s already made his name within. He then returns to Europe in November with two new UK shows in Manchester and The Scala in London in early December, his biggest UK so far.
Over the course of Amir, Tamino captures a range of emotions from romance to desolation, and almost everything in between. It’s mood music, painted in a number of different shades. This deluxe release will act as a timely reminder of what makes Tamino such a special young artist, and shows the progression he has soon made from those initial demo recordings right through to his stunning live sound of today.
AMIR DELUXE TRACKLISTING
Disc 1
1. Habibi
2. Sun May Shine
3. Tummy
4. Chambers
5. So It Goes
6. Indigo Night
7. Cigar
8. Each Time
9. Verses
10. W.o.t.h
11. Intervals
12. Persephone
Disc 2 (Bonus)
1. Crocodile
2. Every Pore
3. Chambers – Demo
4. Tummy – Demo
5. Intervals - Live at Jet Studio ft. Nagham Zikrayat Orchestra
6. Every Pore - Live at Jet Studio ft. Nagham Zikrayat Orchestra
7. w.o.t.h - Live at La Cigale
8. Intro (La Javanaise) - Live at La Cigale
9. Verses - Live at La Cigale
TAMINO LIVE DATES
Sep 11 - Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
Sep 12 - Quebec City, QC - Imperial (St-Roch-XP)
Sep 13 - St. Agathe, QC - Théâtre Le Patriote
Sep 14 - Ottawa, ON - Cityfolk Music & Arts Festival
Sep 17 – Toronto, ON - The Drake Hotel
Sep 18 - Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern
Sep 20 - Los Angeles - CA - The Moroccan Lounge
Sep 22 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
Oct 12 - Cairo, EG - Jazz Club 610
Oct 17 - Ankara, TR - Milyon Performance Hall
Oct 18 - Istanbul, TR - Zorlu Center for Performing Arts
Oct 19 - Izmir, TR - Soldout Performance Hall
Oct 25 - Casablanca, MA – Rialto Cinema
Nov 12 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje
Nov 14 - Maastricht, NL - Muziekgieterij
Nov 16 - Antwerp, BE - Lotto Arena
Nov 19 - Paris, FR - Olympia
Nov 20 - Luxembourg, BE - den Atelier
Nov 21 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje
Nov 23 - Den Haag, NL - Paard
Nov 29 - Berlin, DE - Silent Green
Dec 2 - Dublin, IR - Button Factory
Dec 3 - Manchester, UK - YES (Pink Room)
Dec 4 - London, UK – Scala
Dec 6 - Cologne, DE - Luxor
Dec 7 - Zurich, CH - Mascotte
Dec 8 - Lausanne, CH - Les Docks
Dec 9 - Milan, IT - Santeria Toscana 31
Dec 10 - Rome, IT - Monk
Dec 13 - Barcelona, ES - Festival Mil.Lenni – La (2) de Apolo
Dec 14 - Madrid, ES - Café Berlin
Dec 15 - Toulouse, FR - Metronum
Visit www.taminomusic.com for more details and for remaining tickets.
