Bedouine, the project of singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian, has announced a new album. Waysides is out October 15 via The Orchard. Leading the follow-up to 2019’s Bird Songs of a Killjoy is a single called “The Wave,” which you can find below, along with Bedouine’s forthcoming tour dates.
“I wrote this about the loss of a close friend, specifically the swell of emotion I try to resign myself to when thinking of her premature absence,” Korkejian said in a statement. “She was someone who had an uncomplicated relationship with life and living. I often wondered ‘Why her and not me?’ I was trying to practice the things I was learning, to surrender to the fear and the grief… and the fear of grief. I haven’t entirely worked through it. Writing ‘The Wave’ was a reminder to feel my feelings. At a time of such collective loss I imagine there are people out there that could relate. It feels cathartic to share.”
Read about Bird Songs of a Killjoy in Pitchfork’s “Great Records You May Have Missed: Summer 2019.”
Waysides:
01 The Solitude
02 It Wasn’t Me
03 I Don’t Need the Light
04 Easy
05 You Never Leave Me
06 The Wave
07 This Machine
08 Forever Everette
09 Sonnet 104
10 Songbird
Bedouine:
08-21 Abiquiú, NM - Ghost Ranch Music Weekend 2021
10-13 Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Memorial Library *
10-15 Grass Valley, CA @ Grass Valley Center for the Arts
10-16 Sonoma, CA @ Huichica Music Festival 2021
10-28 Nashville, TN @ City Winery
10-29 Birmingham, AL @ Alabama Theatre +
10-30 Jacksonville, FL @ Suwannee Hulaween 2021 +
10-31 New Orleans, LA @ Orpheum Theater +
11-02 St Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre *
11-04 Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre, Roosevelt University +
11-05 Chicago IL @ Auditorium Theatre, Roosevelt University +
11-06 Chicago IL @ Auditorium Theatre, Roosevelt University +
11-29 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl at the Linq Promenade #
12-01 Boise, ID @ The Knitting Factory Concert House #
12-02 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot #
* with Devendra Banhart
+ with My Morning Jacket
# with Courtney Barnett
