Waysides

"This Machine" is the fifth track on Bedouine's third studio album, Waysides. She told Apple Music about the track, “This song represents a coming-of-age moment to me. I realized that the only thing I know is that I don’t know anything. As comfortable as I was at the time, I felt like if I stayed where I was, I would regret it. Moving on and starting over later in life, an internal conflict between loving someone and feeling comfortable and honoring the pull towards something different.” 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.