#interview: 2022

[taminoamirfouad]

Arabic culture is unapologetically melancholic. It’s sort of a proud melancholy, with a straight back. It’s not, ‘Look at me, I’m in so much pain’; it’s more, like, ‘I’m in pain and I’m proud.’ I do think that sometimes that’s misunderstood here in the West.

Tamino, interviewed by Ed Potton, The Times UK, September 23, 2022 (x)

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The Bare Magazine’s October issue featuring Jen

[taminoamirfouad]

Sahar means just before dawn, it conjures up this in-between realm. Everybody has had those times where they wake up before everybody else does. It's not night, but it's not day either. It's kind of... limbo.

Tamino, interviewed by Jad Salfiti for GQ Middle East, September 12, 2022 (x)

[taminoamirfouad]

[taminoamirfouad]

The song is inspired by Greek mythology and the love story between the nymph Clytia and the sun god Apollo. After he loved her, he abandoned her. She cried so much that she turned into a sunflower. I also put another character in the song, a young man who falls in love with the flower and protects it. But for both the love remains unrequited.

Tamino on ‘Sunflower’, interviewed by Joëlle Lehrer, Marie Claire NL, September 2022 issue (x)

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pukkelpop 8/19/22 (x)

[taminoamirfouad]

The beautiful violence which you see in nature, like the relationship between wind and trees. Sometimes it’s just a breeze and sometimes it rips the tree out of the earth. But you don’t regard it as something awful — it’s just what happens. Humans versus humans — that’s where you see the ugly violence.

Tamino on ‘A Drop of Blood’, interviewed by Ed Potton, The Times UK, September 23, 2022 (x)

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