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10/15/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/15/2024 09:06
Every Dawn's a Mountain: Tamino Announces New Album Out March 21st
via Djinn Records/Communion Records
Watch The Video For "Babylon," First Single Available Today
North American Tour Set For Spring 2025, Including NYC's Brooklyn Steel, LA's Belasco, SF's Fillmore & A Dozen Other Stops, Following Recent Performance With David Byrne
Today, Tamino returns to announce the release of Every Dawn's a Mountain : a new album primarily written in his new home of New York City, bringing a new beginning for an artist who already headlines arenas in most of Europe and the Middle East, and was recently invited to play at the Great Pyramid of Giza; whose songs and stories have stunned friends and fans like David Byrne, Lana Del Rey and Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. Tamino's voice "carries the hypnotic, immediate power of something much more ancient," says NPR.
Out March 21st, 2025 via Djinn Records/Communion Records, Every Dawn's a Mountainis fueled by the feeling of fire, and realizing that everything that has been built before and within you is about to burn down - perhaps for the best. The record is one about loss, displacement, breaking up and letting go of the past, and from those embers of emotional wreckage, Tamino emerges and enters his next chapter. While most of these 10 songs were written in the Manhattan apartment he recently moved to, he also recorded in a New Orleans church, Brussels studio, and scattered hotel rooms while on tour with Mitski, who sings with Tamino on "Sanctuary," one of Every Dawn's a Mountain's many high points. Though he was first inspired to learn guitar by his grandfather - famed Egyptian singer Muharram Fouad - the album's arrangements are largely pillared by the sound of his Arabic oud. Tamino's voice smolders throughout, flaring from deep and sultry one moment to a flickering falsetto the next. "Using music to convey deeper messages is key to what Tamino does," described The Guardian. "It's led many to compare him to the late American singer Jeff Buckley, but with orchestral arrangements nodding to his Arab lineage."
Pre-Order Every Dawn's a Mountain, listen to new single "Babylon,"and watch the video: HEREBorn within the walls of a medieval castle, during soundcheck at a small Italian festival, "Babylon" is a six-minute epic and explosive journey, and first preview of Every Dawn's a Mountain. Tamino calls it a cornerstone of the album, as it continued to evolve through the time he spent in Brussels, New Orleans and New York - three monumental cities, each their own modern Babylons.
"Just as fire can erupt with great force, most of these songs seemed to burst their way into existence. Unabashedly and without warning, they demanded my attention and determined the course of my days. They say the faster the flame burns, the harder it is to catch. Similarly, capturing the right feel while recording proved challenging at times. I've never really approached music conceptually. Usually, songwriting feels more like carving away into a self-revealing sculpture rather than carefully implementing a pre-existing blueprint. After recent developments in my life, however, I did feel a tremendous urge to build a metaphysical altar for what had been lost. The end result, though at times eclectic, feels like the most harmonious record I've made to date, with all 10 songs strung together by a same sense of honoring and letting go."
-Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad
Produced by Tamino and longtime collaborator PJ Maertens, with co-production by Eric Heigle (Arcade Fire, Dawn Richard) and Alessandro Buccellati (Arlo Parks, SZA), and additional production by Chris Messina (Bon Iver, Big Red Machine), Zach Hanson (Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso) and Jo Francken, Every Dawn's a Mountain follows his 2022 album (Sahar) and 2019 debut (Amir), and is mainly backed by Tamino's live band of musicians. In March and April, he will return to the road for a tour across North America.
On the heels of a performance at David Byrne's Amazing Humans Doing Amazing Things variety show earlier this month, tickets for Tamino's North American spring tour are on-sale at 10am local time this Friday, October 18th. Stops include New York City's Brooklyn Steel, Los Angeles' Belasco, San Francisco's The Fillmore, two nights at Chicago's Thalia Hall and more. Find the list of dates below, and details at taminomusic.com/tour.
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