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Jun 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Bedouine

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Bedouine is the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian. She was born in Aleppo, Syria to Armenian parents, but spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia and then moved to America when her family won a Green Card lottery. She’s lived all over the U.S., including Boston, Houston, Lexington, Austin, and Savannah, but is currently based in Los Angeles. Her self-titled debut album comes out on June 23 via Matthew E. White’s Spacebomb label (also home to Natalie Prass). Musically she’s got a ‘60s/‘70s singer/songwriter vibe akin to First Aid Kit or Laura Marling, with some hints of Prass too. Now she has shared a video for “One of These Days,” which was the song that convinced White to sign her to Spacebomb. Tom Salvaggio directed the video, which, like the song, is very natural and features Korkejian in a park (or the countryside) playing with a dog and goofing around with flowers. Watch it below. Also below is the video for previous singles “Solitary Daughter” and “Dusty Eyes.”

Korkejian had this to say about the song and video in a press release: “I had borrowed my friend’s ‘84 Blazer and taken it to the narrow streets of downtown Los Angeles to run an errand. The steering was loose and it felt like navigating a cruise ship down a canal. He had JJ Cale’s Naturally in the stereo as long as he had the truck, as if it came with it. I was somewhat familiar but it was then I noticed how JJ Cale turned a phrase on the drop of a dime. He’d sing a phrase that sounded like a complete thought, then all of a sudden move the punctuation over to add a tag. That’s what inspired the phrase ‘get it, and get it right.’ The song itself is an optimistic outlook on wanting to speak the same language as someone, or at least close enough for you both to feel loved. Jake Blanton (who owns the Blazer) played drums. Gus Seyffert, the producer, played bass and tracked us live. The video was another collaboration with Tom Salvaggio and pokes fun at its own whimsy.”

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