Waysides

"The Wave" is the sixth track on Bedouine's third studio album, Waysides. She told Apple Music about the track, “I was really struggling with the loss of a friend and her absence. I wrote the song in remembrance of her and also as a reminder to myself to feel my feelings, because I was having a hard time processing it. I still have a hard time processing it. This was a reminder to allow myself to grieve and try to understand how I was feeling in response to it. It’s a reminder of the practice of sitting with your feelings.” Read more on Last.fm.

Bedouine is the moniker of the North American based singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian. Although born in Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic her family swiftly moved to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where she spent her first childhood years. During this time she lived in a closed off expatriate community and attended a North American school, so the contact to her country of residence and it's people was seriously limited. At the age of ten she and her family finally moved to North America, where she grew up. In USA she moved frequently, her family first settled in Massachusets, then move to Houston, she then would travel to different cities within the USA before settling in LA. This explains the moniker she decided to give herself; Bedouin people come from a society of nomads that live in the Sahara, North Africa. Azniv, who has no relation to these people, simply saw them as nomads and considered the name fitted her. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.