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Bedouine

by Bedouine

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    The self-titled debut album from Bedouine, out June 23rd, 2017

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    The self-titled debut album from Bedouine, out June 23rd, 2017

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Back to You 04:27
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Dusty Eyes 04:37
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Summer Cold 02:48
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Mind's Eye 03:14
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You Kill Me 04:13
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Skyline 02:29
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Louise 03:11
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Deep Space 02:39

about

Bedouine is singing, like rain down a granite ruin, sweet as jasmine in the summer darkness, lilting crystal movements, precise and sure, the kind of voice that forms civilizations. Bedouine has a story to match the name, Azniv Korkejian, born in Syria to Armenian parents, spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, and moved to America when her family won the Green Card lottery. Living at various times in Boston, Houston, Lexington, Austin, and Savannah, she found a community of musicians in Los Angeles that feels like home.

One day she walked into Gus Seyffert’s studio to inquire about getting a reel-to-reel tape machine, something analogue and portable to record herself in small, quiet places. On a whim, he asked if she would play a song right then, so she stepped into the room and cut “Solitary Daughter” in a first take, and they were off on a three year collaboration. One night, she approached Matthew E. White of Spacebomb Records after a show at The Echo in L.A., saying that she wanted to send him a song. He remembers listening to “One of These Days” on the rest of that tour “like a thousand times,” it knocked him and his band right out, and they even set it as their alarm to wake up to in the morning. If that all sounds a bit mythic, a bit rock-and-roll legend, remember that reality always outdoes the script, even in a town like Hollywood.

Working on around thirty tracks, with remarkable musicians like Smokey Hormel stopping by to contribute parts, Korkejian selected ten, united by a sustained mood and presence, to bring east for the Spacebomb treatment and Trey Pollard’s expressive symphonic arrangements. It’s a celebration of the patient process of recording and discovery. Bedouine’s voice is at the center, a serene narrator, restless or still, taking deep pleasure in moments of trust and recognition, close observations or oblique truths, exploring the deep complications of displacement. Her debut collects two coasts, combining L.A. studio magic and Richmond’s Spacebomb sound in a rich new world of style and song.

credits

released June 23, 2017

Produced and Engineered by Gus Seyffert
Assistant Engineering by Sean Cook
Mixed by Thom Monahan
Recorded at Sargent Recorders, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering
All songs written by Bedouine
Artwork by Robert Beatty
Photographs by Polly Antonia Barrowman

Strings & Winds Arranged by Trey Pollard
Conducted by Trey Pollard
Strings Contracted by Treesa Gold
Arrangements Produced by Matthew E. White
Recorded at Spacebomb Studios by Adrian Olsen
Art Direction and Design by Travis Robertson

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