Bedouine - Interview with Azniv Korkejian

<p>“I felt this really compelling amount of nostalgia and I was kind of living in the past, so I thought that maybe songwriting was a way to capture that and a way to protect it, because I felt like it was slipping away -- just... childhood,&quot; says <a href="https://www.bedouinemusic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Bedouine</strong></a>&#39;s Azniv Korkejian, talking about the inspiration for her beautiful new album, <em>Neon Summer Skin</em>. &quot;I felt really sad about it and I started to write with that in mind and it was kind of more than anything kind of therapeutic for me, I understood that I needed to address it because I understood that it was all consuming.”</p><p>It was such a pleasure to finally get to do this interview with Azniv. We’ve been friends for years, but there was still so much I didn’t know about her earlier life and her creative journey. In episode 145, we delve into that evolutionary stuff: singing along with <strong>Mariah Carey</strong>’s <em>Music Box</em> as a kid, falling in love with artists like <strong>The Strokes</strong> and <strong>Norah Jones</strong> as she got a bit older, working in sound editing for film and TV after college, and eventually starting to perform her own music a little more than a decade ago. And we also talk about the making of <em>Neon Summer Skin </em>and how it helped her process some of the bittersweet nostalgia she was feeling about childhood and the safety of family. Bedouine has a North American tour starting in mid-October. Get tickets <a href="https://www.bedouinemusic.com/tour" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">here</a>. </p>