Tamino releases his much-anticipateddebut album, ‘Amir’, via Communion Records /Caroline Australia. To coincide withthe announcement, Tamino has alsoshared a new taste from the album with‘Persephone’.Of Belgian, Egyptian and Lebaneseheritage, the 21-year-old musician haswritten and shaped an album of startling,visceral, sit-up-and-listen power.Four of the tracks that feature on hisdebut EP, Habibi, find a home on Amirtoo including ‘Indigo Night’ featuringRadiohead’s Colin Greenwood on bass.It’s an album of a variety of differentshapes and textures, delivered in asoulful and sultry croon by a youngmusician with a striking, extraordinarytalent. ‘Tummy‘ slinks brightly, the yingto ‘Verses’ folky yang. Whilst on othertracks like ‘Each Time‘, ‘Intervals‘ and‘So It Goes‘ the Arabic influences shinethrough as melodies lilt over the quarternotes rarely touched in Western music.Also joining Tamino across Amir is acollective of Arabic musicians based inBrussels called “Nagham Zikrayat”. TheFirka (orchestra) is predominantly madeup of professional musicians (theseplayers were reasonably well known intheir home countries) from the MiddleEast, most of which have refugee statushaving predominantly fled from Iraq andSyria.

• 1. Habibi
• 2. Sun My 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