Tamino: 2025

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Although Tamino is no stranger to the halls of WFUV, a visit by the tall, mysterious young man with a kindly way always stops people in their tracks.

Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad ups his musical game with a new album that has the striving title, Every Dawn's a Mountain, and offers songs that reach for the heights. After touring with Mitski, he's got her on board for a duet on the song, "Sanctuary." He's found at age 28 that in his new adopted home of downtown Manhattan, with a career that's catching fire, he is poised to come into his own quintessence.

FUV Marquee Members got a taste of it all in a recent showcase for Tamino and band at the Bitter End, which it was my pleasure to host. Although Tamino projects the adventurous and often otherworldly in his music, he remains the fun, down to earth guy you fall into easy conversation with about shared passions (put all things Bob Dylan at the top of that list) and who's still wowed by it all.

In this Studio A session, joined by drummer Ruben Vanhoutte and cellist Frederik Daelemans, Tamino played three songs: "Babylon," "Sanctuary," and "Dissolve."

[Recorded: January 15, 2025; Engineered by Jim O'Hara with Erin Merriman, Gwen Taylor, and Thomas Lappus; produced by Meghan Suma; videographers: Lyla Toomey, Louisa Schramm, Olivia Iannaccone, and Vee Venning.]