Video: Bedouine, ‘The Solitude’

S.Lo on October 25th, 2021

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Still waters belie a depth of swirling emotions in Bedouine’s third album, “Waysides,” released last Friday. Produced and mixed by Gus Seyffert (Roger Waters, Beck, Norah Jones, Michael Kiwanuka, Michelle Branch, HAIM, James Supercave, Spain, Steady Holiday and more), with band assists from Josh Adams (drums), Gabriel Noel (strings) and Mike Andrews (guitar and mandolin), Azniv Korkejian sails through the rocky terrain of love, loneliness, betrayal, abandonment, death and duplicity with a smooth equanimity.

“These songs have been with me a while and feel close to the chest, like a younger self,” said the singer-songwriter. “They’re up to 15 years old but for one reason or another fell by the wayside. That didn’t make them any less sentimental, and it became increasingly clear I’d have to create a space for them. What started as a casual offering evolved into a thoughtful record with the help of Gus Seyffert. In a sense, this collection acts as a prologue. This time of reflection made it possible and letting it go only makes me more excited for what’s to come.”

Lead single “The Solitude” kicks the ship off from shore. With an amusing, vintage-styled video– directed, shot and edited by Bedouine with Dre Babinski (Steady Holiday)– listeners get an outside view of attachment and an empty nest. “I was listening to Joni Mitchell’s “My Old Man” and kept returning to the lyric ‘the bed’s too big, the frying pan’s too wide.’ I was so taken by that; conveying a feeling by describing a change in proportions,” said the musician. “I wanted to expand on that and it became kind of an homage. Otherwise, it’s about the realization that I’m not impervious to codependencies or being in denial about them.”

||| Watch: The video for “The Solitude”