A few years ago, Tamino moved into a Manhattan apartment, and he began sketching out the songs for his new album, Every Dawn’s a Mountain.
He calls the record “an altar to loss.”
“Building an altar for what is lost is a good way to work through that,” the Belgian Egyptian musicians says. “It’s necessary to give it a space.”
In this session, Tamino joins us to talk about making his new album, working with Mitski on the song “Sanctuary,” and why he’s struggled to fully embrace his earlier work.
“In a sense, loving your earlier work is loving your younger self, and I think there’s something very important about that,” he says.
Plus, Tamino performs in front of a live audience at World Cafe.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.