Bedouine announces second album ‘Bird Songs of a Killjoy’
BEDOUINE ANNOUNCES SECOND ALBUM BIRD SONGS OF A KILLJOY, OUT MAY 31 VIA SPACEBOMB
SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘BIRD’
PLAYS LONDON’S QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL IN SEPTEMBER
“An album heralding a talent as intriguingly fully-formed and distinctive, in its own way, as Marling, Mitchell and Bush”
5/5 The Independent
“One of the most charming albums of the year”
4/5 The Guardian
“Her take on vintage folk pop and orchestral country soul is compellingly particular”
8/10 Uncut
Listen to ‘Bird’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWBL_8MpMVo
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Following the recently shared single ‘When You’re Gone’, LA based Azniv Korkejian aka Bedouine has today announced that her second album Bird Songs of a Killjoy will be released on May 31 via Spacebomb. Along with the announcement she has shared the second single to be taken from the album ‘Bird’.
Speaking of the track she says:
“‘Bird’ is about loving someone so much that you’re willing to loosen your grip on them. It was written as a love letter with the intent of delivering it. It’s one of my favorite memories regarding the power of song. I had so much to communicate and this was the only way I was able to get it all down. I drafted it on my recorder and emailed it that evening. The next morning there was a freshly written song in response to mine in my inbox. I was totally astonished by this perfect exchange. It seemed to prove that sometimes when you’re willing to let something go is when you’re given it entirely.”
Bird Songs of a Killjoy follows her critically acclaimed self-titled debut in June 2017 which received widespread praise including including a 5/5 The Independent album review and features everywhere from Uncut and the Sunday Times to The FADER and Stereogum. She also went on to play a two night residency at London‘s The Islington (“A wandering star is born”, ★★★★, The Observer) as well as returning recently for a show at the Southbank Centre‘s Purcell Room alongside a string section and has toured the UK and Europe alongside Father John Misty, Michael Kiwanuka and Matthew E. White as well as Kevin Morby, José González, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Fleet Foxes, Waxahatchee, Real Estate and more in the US.
This second album continues her creative partnership with Gus Seyffert(Beck, Michael Kiwanuka) who she met when working as a sound engineer in LA. “It’s called Bird Songs of a Killjoy, and I’m the killjoy,” Azniv grins. She describes the sometime perception of herself as a curmudgeon and a depressive. “Dare I say – a difficult woman,” she continues, laughing. “I’m taking ownership of that stereotype, proudly. The music itself however, is the farthest from curmudgeonly or depressive as could be. It’s a soundtrack to Spring blossom, to warm air on skin, to the concept of possibility.
Amazingly, despite the successes since her debut release, Bird Songs of a Killjoy rejects any pressures to be some kind of grand evolution from before. When her self-titled debut came out in the summer of 2017, Azniv was entirely unknown, and wasn’t necessarily looking to change that. The album she wrote in her free time while dealing with some emotional trauma and locking herself away in her house, was an exercise in diarising, in expression without expectations. Some of the songs on this second effort were from that same time period of fruitful creativity. This time however, there was more effort to concentrate on a cohesive beginning, middle and end. It was her biggest challenge, and it paid off. This is more than a mere collection of songs, and for that reason, includes a reprise of one song and features re-occurring musical motifs and hidden tracks.
Azniv’s experience of life is extraordinary. She was born in Aleppo, Syria, and swiftly moved to Saudi Arabia where she did most of her growing up until the age of ten. Her family won a Green Card Lottery and she went to an American school and lived in an ex-pat community. Her dad was a singer and would play traditional Armenian and Arabic music at home but Azniv didn’t make the connection in familial passion there until she was much older. “My music sounds so traditionally American and I’m not sure how that happened,” she offers, recalling that it wasn’t until her twenties that she discovered ’60s folk music and picked up a guitar.
She certainly never believed that music could be a career. Serving more as a healing process than any kind of professional pursuit she worked in sound design in her own little slice of Hollywood (incidentally, where she met Gus) and wrote and wrote, and from this well of songs, she’s now arrived at more than two albums. “All my work is on the front end,” she says. “All I can do is make sure I’m doing my best, putting my best foot forward, and honouring my emotional experience, but what it does in the end can’t matter as much.” For Bedouine, the songs have already served their healing purpose. Now it’s time for them to move others.
Bedouine will bring her full band to London for the first time for a performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall in September. A full list of upcoming dates is below.
Pre-order Bird Songs of a Killjoy here:
https://shop.spacebombrecords.com/bedouine
Tour dates
7 Sep – London @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, full band show – TICKETS
Bird Songs of a Killjoy tracklist:
1. Under the Night
2. Sunshine Sometimes
3. When You’re Gone
4. One More Time
5. Dizzy
6. Bird
7. Bird Gone Wild
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9. Matter of the Heart
10. Echo Park
11. Reprise
12. Tall Man
Praise for Bedouine:
“An album heralding a talent as intriguingly fully-formed and distinctive, in its own way, as Marling, Mitchell and Bush”
5/5 The Independent
“One of the most charming albums of the year”
4/5 The Guardian
“Her take on vintage folk pop and orchestral country soul is compellingly particular”
8/10 Uncut
“It’s the insular intimacy of Korkejian’s songs, like zephyrs whispered into your ear, that make this debut such a triumph”
4/5 Mojo
“Elegant, honeyed country-soul”
4/5 Observer
“Lushly orchestrated, literary ballads”
4/5 Evening Standard
“Her debut luxuriates in splendid isolation”
4/5 Record Collector
“A real find”
Sunday Times ‘Breaking Act‘
“Breathtaking”
The Line of Best Fit ‘Song of the Day’
“Lush, timeless southern country and dense mid-western Americana”
The 405
“Charming debut”
Monocle
“[Bedouine]’s ambiguous, fascinating tales are ones that it’s impossible not to follow into the distance”
DIY
“The finest and most relevant debut of the year”
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