Amir

Description

Amir is released on the 19th October via Communion Records. It was produced by PJ Maertens and Jo Francken, and recorded at Maertens house in Belgium and at Audiworkx Studios in Holland. Of Belgian, Egyptian and Lebanese heritage the 21-year-old musician has written and shaped an album of startling, visceral, sit-up-and-listen power. Amir features a handful of tracks from his debut EP, Habibi including Indigo Night which features Radioheads Colin Greenwood on 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 and Syria. Over the course of Amir, Tamino captures a range of emotions from romance to desolation, and almost everything in between. Its mood music, painted in a number of different shades. Tamino: Some of the songs on Amir are more on the romantic side, whilst others are more on the apathetic side. In my own life, I can look at the world and at life in both ways depending on my state of being. The conflict creates an imbalance. Amir is about balance A tantalising introduction to a fierce new talent Sunday Times Culture An astonishing vocal rangeBreath-taking The Independent