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Tamino Setlist
Tour Dates
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Seattle, WA, US
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Sep 29 Portland, OR, US Doug Fir Lounge Oct 2 San Francisco, CA, US The Independent Oct 3 Los Angeles (LA), CA, US Regent Theater Oct 4 Los Angeles (LA), CA, US Regent Theater Oct 5 Phoenix, AZ, US The Rebel Lounge Oct 7 Austin, TX, US Austin City Limits Oct 9 Atlanta, GA, US Terminal West Oct 11 Washington, DC, US Black Cat Oct 12 Brooklyn, NY, US Music Hall of Williamsburg Oct 13 Brooklyn, NY, US Music Hall of Williamsburg Nov 21 Paris, France Le Trianon Nov 22 Paris, France Le Trianon Nov 24 London, UK KOKO Nov 25 London, UK KOKO Nov 29 Cologne, Germany Gloria Theater Nov 30 Berlin, Germany Metropol Dec 2 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso Dec 3 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso Dec 5 Brussels, Belgium Royal Circus Dec 6 Brussels, Belgium Cirque Royal / Koninklijk Circus Dec 7 Brussels, Belgium Cirque Royal / Koninklijk Circus Read More
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Belgian-Egyptian musician (and model!) Tamino is on his first American tour in support of his sophomore album Sahar (Djinn/Secretly Distribution), stopping by the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis on Sunday, September 25th.
Local singer/songwriter Molly Dean opened the show. We actually caught the singer, when she sang for the Moon & Pollution, in May 2015: “...local act Moon & Pollution, who played an uncommonly long nearly 50-minute opening set. The band basically played their entire The Box Borealis album, complete with a middle drum solo intermission.”
Right off the bat, Dean said she was taking off her shoes. She does this because she uses her feet to start and stop looping. If you’re unfamiliar with this technique, a lot of solo musicians create loops so it can add to their music. For example, if you want a percussion sound, you simply record some taps and let the recording loop run while you play your guitar, etc. If it works, the songs sounds like one or more people are collaborating on the song.
Unlike the 2015 show, it seemed like Dean had a lot of say. Before “Timbre and Trail”, she tells us the story about how she became disenchanted with music, while she was trying to make her way to Kentucky for a gig. She was going to give it all up, but then she heard the singer before her, and hearing the voice and engagement… it made her fall in love with music again.
For “Swell”, the song is about and dedicated to her Uncle John, a gay man who died of Parkinson’s.
She covered Johnny Cash’s “Unchained” near the end of her set. When she asked if she had more time to play…. “Nobody said ‘no’", so she finished her 40-min set with a song about “time and clarity.”
A little trivia, but Tamino is the grandson of Egyptian singer and movie star Muharram Fouad. Like his grandfather, Tamino fusing folk music with Middle Eastern sound. He first found fame with his debut album Amir in 2018, earning over 126 million streams from fans all across the globe. He regularly sells out large venues in the UK, such as the Ancienne Belgique, a venue with a capacity of 2,000 attendees. If you couldn’t get in to see him play, some of those live recording were made available on his Live at Ancienne Belgique.
For that show, he had a full band, including Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, but for this American tour, it’s strictly a solo tour.
There are a few things you should know, when you see a one-man show. Sometime, if they have to tune their own guitar, it can be about 70% music, and 30% random banter. Fortunately, Tamino came prepared. He has a guitar tech off stage, who pre-tune and deliver the right guitar to Tamino, as the song requires it… leaving few words spoken, and letting the music speaks for itself.
Tamino’s fans are another thing altogether! These aren’t the typical music fans you would find at a rock show. I honestly don’t believe many of these fans normally attend shows (if at all)… yet, here they were on the crowded dancefloor at the Fine Line. The fans were so funny. They had instant replies to every words that Tamino had to say.
Example, Tamino spoke, “This is my first time here.” Fans immediately shouted back, “Come back again!!”
Tamino was very interactive with the diehard fans. Having heard someone shouted, “You are unreal!”, Tamino’s response was just as funny: “This is unreal!”
The show ended with the big hit single, “Habibi”, followed by the encore song, “Only Our Love”.
Tamino’s album Sahar is out now on Djinn/Secretly Distribution.
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Moon & Pollution (09 May 2015)
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Right off the bat, Dean said she was taking off her shoes. She does this because she uses her feet to start and stop looping. If you’re unfamiliar with this technique, a lot of solo musicians create loops so it can add to their music. For example, if you want a percussion sound, you simply record some taps and let the recording loop run while you play your guitar, etc. If it works, the songs sounds like one or more people are collaborating on the song.
Unlike the 2015 show, it seemed like Dean had a lot of say. Before “Timbre and Trail”, she tells us the story about how she became disenchanted with music, while she was trying to make her way to Kentucky for a gig. She was going to give it all up, but then she heard the singer before her, and hearing the voice and engagement… it made her fall in love with music again.
For “Swell”, the song is about and dedicated to her Uncle John, a gay man who died of Parkinson’s.
She covered Johnny Cash’s “Unchained” near the end of her set. When she asked if she had more time to play…. “Nobody said ‘no’", so she finished her 40-min set with a song about “time and clarity.”
A little trivia, but Tamino is the grandson of Egyptian singer and movie star Muharram Fouad. Like his grandfather, Tamino fusing folk music with Middle Eastern sound. He first found fame with his debut album Amir in 2018, earning over 126 million streams from fans all across the globe. He regularly sells out large venues in the UK, such as the Ancienne Belgique, a venue with a capacity of 2,000 attendees. If you couldn’t get in to see him play, some of those live recording were made available on his Live at Ancienne Belgique.
For that show, he had a full band, including Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, but for this American tour, it’s strictly a solo tour.
There are a few things you should know, when you see a one-man show. Sometime, if they have to tune their own guitar, it can be about 70% music, and 30% random banter. Fortunately, Tamino came prepared. He has a guitar tech off stage, who pre-tune and deliver the right guitar to Tamino, as the song requires it… leaving few words spoken, and letting the music speaks for itself.
Tamino’s fans are another thing altogether! These aren’t the typical music fans you would find at a rock show. I honestly don’t believe many of these fans normally attend shows (if at all)… yet, here they were on the crowded dancefloor at the Fine Line. The fans were so funny. They had instant replies to every words that Tamino had to say.
Example, Tamino spoke, “This is my first time here.” Fans immediately shouted back, “Come back again!!”
Tamino was very interactive with the diehard fans. Having heard someone shouted, “You are unreal!”, Tamino’s response was just as funny: “This is unreal!”
The show ended with the big hit single, “Habibi”, followed by the encore song, “Only Our Love”.
Tamino’s album Sahar is out now on Djinn/Secretly Distribution.
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