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tamino in the pages of htsi magazine (2023)
— Tamino for Financial Times, September 2023 (x)
— Tamino for Style Magazine Italia, June 2023 (x) (x)
so the great news is that tamino is on the cover of style magazine italia! the bad news is that i do not live in italy and thus do not have a copy. if anyone is able to get one and would be so kind as to send me photos of his interview and photoshoot, my dms are open on here, twitter and instagram :) credit will be given unless you request otherwise, of course
I would like to know if Tamino is straight or gay? (slightly mocking) “You don't know that? I think that's an odd question. As if that would matter. Well, I also realize that there is a lot of confusion around it, even though it becomes very clear in my lyrics that I like women. (laughs) You know, if I were gay, I think it might be a great inspiration to people. So I'm not offended by that question. Even if everyone in my audience thinks I'm gay, my response would be, so what? Although I find it strange how much importance someone attaches to the idea of whether I am gay or straight. I'm straight, but sexuality shouldn't be a defining factor of someone's personality. That's madness. I really can't reach that. It doesn't really matter to me who someone falls for. What that question shows is that there is still a stigma around someone who loves fashion like I do. Or around someone who opens up their feelings without any problems, like me: I think that is often linked to sexual preference. Whether that question is relevant? Bwah… There's actually a very feminine energy floating around in my music, so the question doesn't surprise me too much. But at the same time it is also obvious in my lyrics that I admire women, that I even put them on a pedestal. I just don't think I should explain something like that. Recently I covered a great song by Mac DeMarco, 'My Kind of Woman'. When I posted that song, someone wrote: "Does that mean he is not gay?" The only question I ask myself is how I can contribute to that topic myself. Because I think it's a very important subject and important that it is talked about enough, so that ultimately everyone can love who they love without being looked at wrongly or excluded, or worse.
— Tamino in response to fan-submitted questions for De Morgen, 2019 (x)
hello! do you have any scans of amir? the booklets or whatnot?
unfortunately no, i dont :( i havent bought amir yet and i likely won't be able to for some time
this is the most i was able to find on the vk fangroup
edit: isa sent me these from the vinyl! she says there isn't an actual booklet unfortunately
— Tamino for De Limburger, May 2017 (x) (Original Dutch text)
Original Dutch text:
Het nieuwe liefje van Vlaanderen
ANTWERPEN DOOR KIM NOACH
In een recordtempo verovert de 20-jarige singer-songwriter Tamino muzikale harten in thuisland België. Optredens op Rock Werchter, Pukkelpop en zijn eerste EP knalt naar de toppositie van iTunes. Zondag is het talent te horen op Mama’s Pride in Geleen.
Mijn lief, zingt Tamino je in zijn hoge falsetto toe, gun me nog een laatste dans…Lief, toe, ik sta in brand…Met deze woorden zingt singer-songwriter Tamino in zijn debuutsingle Habibi (Arabisch voor liefje) rechtstreeks de harten van muziekminnend België binnen.
Met het lied is de muzikale carrière van Tamino vorig jaar in een recordtempo uit de startblokken geschoten: uitverkochte optredens in de kleine zaal van poptempel AB Brussel, een prestigieuze Belgische popprijs landt op zijn schoorsteenmantel en dit festivalseizoen volgen optredens op onder meer Rock Werchter en Pukkelpop. Ook Nederland staat op het punt veroverd te worden. Maar oordeel zondag vooral zelf met een eerste kennismaking op Mama’s Pride in Geleen. Het succes van de jonge zanger heeft zeker te maken met zijn bijzondere stem. Schijnbaar moeiteloos schakelt hij van een diepe crooners kreun over naar een torenhoge falsetto. Deze stembandacrobatiek leverde hem al het predicaat ‘de Belgische Jeff Buckley’ op. Maar ook vergelijkingen met Elliott Smith en Radiohead-zanger Thom Yorke zijn al gemaakt door popkenners. Grote schoenen om te vullen voor een aanstormend talent van net 20 jaar. Tamino blijft er kalm onder. Net klaar met een miniconcert in Antwerpen vertelt hij - op een Vlaams bescheiden manier - vooral gevleid te zijn als fans hem met grote namen uit de muziekbusiness vergelijken. Maar uiteindelijk wil hij vooral Tamino zijn. En gewoon zijn liedjes zingen. Wat het publiek daar vervolgens mee doet? Ach, wie is hij om daar iets over te zeggen?
Smelten Zijn songs zijn mooie luisterliedjes met gitaar die Tamino vorig jaar (gedeeltelijk) vanuit zijn Amsterdamse kamer componeerde. Hij volgt in de hoofdstad een opleiding aan het conservatorium. Zijn studie heeft hij tijdelijk stopgezet om te kunnen voldoen aan alle optredens en interviews. „Kei raar”, zegt hij als het over zijn immer groeiende populariteit gaat. „Ik besef het nog niet volledig. Het zou mooi zijn als ik op een gegeven moment van mijn muziek kan leven. Dat is niet voor iedere artiest vanzelfsprekend.”
Smelten Met zijn donkere krullen, volle wimpers, 'piraten'-oorbel en verlegen glimlach zal singer-songwriter Tamino ongetwijfeld veel harten doen smelten. Zijn looks zijn het resultaat van zijn Belgische moeder en zin Egyptische vader. Zijn Belgische moeder vernoemde haar zoon naar Prins Tamino uit Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte.
Het zijn de Arabische wortels die hem ook muzikaal beïnvloeden zoals te horen is in enkele melodielijn-tjes op zijn naamloze EP. En thuis tokkelt hij niet alleen op de gitaar, maarook op de ud, de Arabische luit en luistert hij naar Egyptische muziek. Dit in combinatie met Westerse muziek van Thom Yorke, Eels, maar ook Soundgarden en de Belgische noiseband Steak Number Eight. Wat hoopt hij van komende zondag? „Allez..." Het is even stil.
„Dat ik alles heb kunnen geven en de mensen het weten te waarderen."
— Tamino for De Limburger, May 2017 (x) (Original Dutch text)
Amidst Tummy’s figurative lyrics of bugs, angels and ‘flying in the sky like cupid’, the song is also unapologetically about sex, which is appropriate given that, in the video, his bare flesh is smothered by anonymous hands in a kind of orgiastic ecstasy. ‘It’s referring to the return to the animalistic when you’re involved in a sexual act,’ he says, with a shy smile creeping onto his face. Sounds fun! ‘Yeah, it is,’ he says, before laughing. ‘You lose all your pride, all your dignity in a way, because you’re not really controlling human consciousness.’
— Tamino in conversation with Owen Myers for GQ Style, 2020 (x)
The song taps into feelings of inadequacy that might be relatable for any listener who’s felt undeserving of their partner or like an imposter at work. ‘It’s like you must […]/ Have a lust/For making something of me,’ he sings as orchestration swells. ‘Sometimes you feel like you’re not worth certain gifts you’ve been given,’ he says. ‘And that could be anything, you know?’ [...] How often does that feeling rear its head? ‘It’s not ever gone and it’s not always present.'
— Tamino in conversation with Owen Myers for GQ Style, 2020 (x)
Hey! I was wondering if you remember an article where Tamino said that he wouldn't spend time watching Netflix and doing the things other people his age did because he had to focus on his career, or something like that. Which interview was that and do you have a post/link? Thanks in advance!
anon i owe you an apology because you sent this in literally december last year but i was so convinced i could find it held off on posting this but i literally cannot ?? i swear i remember reading something like this in one of his online pre-hiatus interviews, probably around 2018/2019, but i just can't find it
the closest i can find is this quote from crush fanzine but i feel like that's not it
I am careful not to scream in bars when the music is too loud. It’s easy to end up screaming without even realizing… Although these days, I don’t go out much… I don’t have the time. And I have no personal life! [Laughs.] It’s true, it’s crazy. I am 21 years old. My life is a little different. You’re never around, and when you come out, your friends are surprised: “What? I thought you were in a relationship, I thought you moved.”
if anyone knows what anon is talking about, please let me know! i'm so sorry for the wait anon
This earring? I found it in an old cupboard. It’s my mother’s. I’m not sure that she ever wore it.
— Tamino in conversation with Ariel Kenig for CRUSH Fanzine, 2018 (x)
If it’s a [genuine] comparison, then of course I don’t mind it. But if they say 'He's the new….' or that the music is the same because Buckley was doing some oriental stuff as well, that’s orientalism. They are basically saying that Pakistani music and Arab music are the same thing.
— Tamino on being compared to Jeff Buckley, in conversation with Nourhan Tewfik for Arab News, 2019 (x)
— Tamino for Glamcult, #138 THE SANCTUM ISSUE / November 2022 (x)
— Tamino for Fucking Young!, #21 EVOLUTION / December 2022 (x)
[...] the teenager who, having no Christmas present to offer his grandmother, “went to her room for an hour, writing her a song at a moment’s notice” - whose framed manuscript is now hanging on the wall.
— Gilles Renault about Tamino for Libération, 2018 (x)