Bedouine Was Devastated When She Left Saudi Arabia
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Why did leaving Saudi Arabia feel devastating for Azniv as a child?
When I left Saudi I was so devastated as a kid. There's a couple of solid years where I was just like pretty sad and angsty and like really hated my parents for like dragging me overseas. Yeah. And away from everything I knew. I you know, I was just so far from understanding what had happened. And it was just so like earth shattering.
It's breaking bread. Thank you so much for being here. This is really great.
Thank you for having me. This is so nice.
I know. The last time we saw each other was I think six years ago.
I have no concept. Five, six years
ago.
Just before everything shut down?
After it all shut down.
Wait, really?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah. Because I I baked bread. Okay, I
forgot about that. Okay, you generously handed me a lo you deliver hand delivered a loaf of bread.
I drove it to your house. I b that was how I was kind of na looking back I was Keeping myself sane by keeping other people sane. And I would bake bread and then there was no one on the roads.
So
I could just get to everybody really quickly.
That's so sweet. I love that.
And I baked bread for you and brought it over. And I remembered I didn't think about it until this morning. On the way there, like 'cause there were no cars on the one oh one, there do you remember the st there was a car upside down. In the middle of the one oh one. Like I was driving and this car was like flipped over and the people were safe off to the side.
Oh. But
it was had this eerie kind of vibe to it because there was just a car upside down and no one was there helping yet. You don't remember that?
No, did you tell me that when you hit I
did and you said how brave I was.
Oh, really? To drive past it.
To get to you and not help those
people. How observant you are. Yeah. Um, I don't remember that, but that doesn't surprise me. My memory is so so bad. Is it? I was probably just so excited about the bread. Yeah. Which was delicious, by the way.
Yeah, that was good. And you're your big German shepherd.
Yeah. He's still around. He is. He's he's getting up there. Yeah. I I think this might be his last year, which is a little heartbreaking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I've tried to find like different solutions. I don't know if you have any advice for me, but I've had like different, you know Yeah.
My brother in law used to use uh a towel just underneath his back and like wheelbarrow him out to the yard.
I kinda do that a manual sort of thing like that. Just just stay on it. But he's so sweet and he's still like himself, you know. And so it
That's the hard part with them.
Yeah.
They're so together but they're just
Yeah. So I don't know. I we're still we're fine finding solutions like we've got a little ramp out, you know, to get to the yard and stuff like that. But he's doing good otherwise.
Oh, that's good. Well it's nice to see you again.
It's nice to see you too.
I just got off the road so I couldn't bake you bread, but I brought you lodge bread.
Okay.
Who are my favorite bread people.
Okay, great. Yeah. So
I'll I'll send that home with you.
Oh amazing. Congratulations
on the new album. Thanks. Yeah.
Yeah, it's been a a little over two months now.
Right.
And we're in this like kind of funny lull between the record release and the t the tour because the record released in June, early June, June fifth.
Yeah.
If I remember correctly. And um the tour doesn't really start until like well, actually in a couple of weeks I'm I'm going to Europe. Okay. But American tour doesn't start until till October.
Oh really?
Yeah, so it's a kind of a funny it was li there was a lot going on around the record release month and then now we're kind of in a lull which is working out 'cause there's so many logistics to plan for the tour. Yeah. And then we'll kinda have like this, you know, ramp up to to that again. But right now it's a weird in between time.
It was great just to see you coming out with more music. 'Cause the the first one was what twenty twenty?
The the first record? Twenty seventeen.
No, the last one. Oh, the last one. Yeah.
Twenty twenty one.
Twenty one. Yeah.
So it was like very much pandemic times and it was I don't think that I would have done that had it not been for the pandemic 'cause that was very much like a pandemic project.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did leaving Saudi Arabia feel devastating for Azniv as a child?
0:02–8:52
2
How did the pandemic shape the creation of Bedouine’s new album?
8:52–19:05
3
What role does family history play in turning personal memories into songs?
19:05–28:56
4
How does Azniv describe growing up between Saudi Arabia and the United States?
28:56–38:58
5
What is Azniv’s songwriting process and how does she find inspiration?
38:58–48:03
6
How does creative friction with a trusted partner influence her music?
48:03–55:20
7
What does Azniv say about the balance between art as a job and art as identity?
55:20–1:05:19
8
How does parenthood affect her sense of presence and future touring plans?
1:05:19–1:12:23