Through her evocative music, singer-songwriter Bedouine brings a world of insight and emotion to this, her newest adopted home
LOS ANGELES - She sat at a window in her whiskey phase, writing songs and blowing smoke over Sunset Boulevard, listening to the rattle of buses, the whispers of passersby, and the way the night moved in spectral cadences that made the wanderer in her feel alive and alone in the latest city she called home.
When the noises grew too loud, which they often did, Azniv Korkejian escaped into a closet with a guitar. She sang and recorded on an iPhone, sketching sparse and intimate meditations on love and the things you gather, the pieces you leave behind. She took on the name Bedouine, a fitting alias for an Armenian born in Syria, who is at once a minimalist nomad and a musician in search of the stillness between notes.
Her acclaimed debut album, "Bedouine," is an arresting mix of country funk and '60s folk that moves in timeless meandering often accompanied by string and horn arrangements. The songs have a destination, but
