Bedouine

Neon Summer Skin is built around a simple revelation: childhood doesn’t end on schedule, and its afterglow can hit hardest when you think you’ve left it behind. Bedouine returns to the instruments of her early years — piano, trumpet, brass — and wraps memory in bossa nova sway, jazz warmth, and a touch of psychedelia. The result is intimate without being small, and deeply, unguardedly felt.

Bedouine — the project of Azniv Korkejian — shares the video for “On My Own,” the third single from her forthcoming album Neon Summer Skin, out June 5th via Thirty Tigers. The contemplative piano ballad opens an album shaped by home, displacement and inherited identity. She has also announced new UK and European tour dates including a London show at Milton Court Concert Hall.

If there is such a thing as classic American songwriting, you wouldn’t necessarily expect it to be embodied on the debut album of a singer of Armenian descent, born in Syria. Bedouine’s album is, for want of a better word, classic.