Project Description

BEDOUINE 

+ LEAH SENIOR

@ Cake Wines Cellar Door

07/03/18

Reviewer: Esther Triffitt

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Azniv Korkejian (Bedouine), born in Syria, growing up in Saudi Arabia before moving to the USA, has proven herself to be one of the most talented songwriters on the current world stage, dubbed by the New York Times that she;

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“sounds like a future legend – the sort of musician one will later wish to have seen”,

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which describes her presence and talent perfectly.

Bedouine made her way to Australia this week to play in Sydney and Melbourne, with her first stop being Cake Wines Cellar Door in Redfern, Sydney.

Starting off the night at 8pm was Leah Senior, who in her own sense is a psych-folk revival, captivating the intimate crowd with her poetic lyricism and songs about such ideas of unconventional beauty and introspective freedom. Leah’s voice and presence fitted in perfectly to support such an artist as Bedouine, exploring delicate themes with beauty and wit. Her last song for the set ‘How I Miss The Womb’ detailed on the end of summer, setting the atmosphere up for the evening.

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At just after 9pm, Bedouine took to the stage, beginning her set with ‘You Kill Me’, off her self titled debut album released in 2017.

Bedouine’s gentle guitar strums and captivating voice placed silence on the crowd, giving her the absolute space an artist like her deserves.

Second song ‘Back To You’ weeps of sweetness and peace, coupled with the bass and back up vocals of Gus Seyffert.

Between songs, Bedouine chatted with the audience, noting that third song in the set ‘Skyline’, was “as close to rapping as I’ll ever get”.

Crowd favourites ‘Nice & Quiet’, and ‘Solitary Daughter’ graced the room with a poetic feel, with Bedouine showing off her lyrical skills in their best sense. Accompanied by the whimsical strumming of her guitar, and the smooth base from Seyffert, the sound throughout the whole night was crisply balanced, being able to show Bedouine’s true pure talents as someone to watch over the coming year.

As someone who currently is underrated within Australia, this show proves her well deserved-ness for worldwide presence, with powerful folk driven songs that harbour metronomic perfection, progressing in her new music which she showcased with an unnamed song during the set.

Later in the set, Bedouine sung a song she had written in Armenian, staying close to her parental roots.

The show finished on a positive love note with ‘One of These Days’, a comforting acoustic driven track, with a simple take on the tribulations of an unbalanced relationship, something to remind you of classic songs before the modern era.

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