Azniv Korkejian has been writing songs for a couple of decades, but for many years, they never felt like they added up to much more than a hobby—the natural yield of a creative person with access to a piano or guitar and free time.
But somewhere along the way, Korkejian—an LA-based music editor by day—noticed her works piling up and transforming, from something ephemeral into a collection of folksongs looking for a home. The tipping point, she says, was “Solitary Daughter,” one of 10 stunning tracks on Korkejian’s self-titled debut under the name Bedouine.
“I was going through a weird, funny time,” she explains. “I wasn’t really leaving the house much. I wasn’t really in a funk, I just kind of became a hermit and I was writing almost every day. And I liked ‘Solitary Daughter’ so much, I just played it all the time. I couldn’t stop. At night I would play it, record it, listen back, and work on it some more.”