The extremely personal nature of this album is evident in the introduction to the song “Canopies.” What begins as a gentle prelude is actually a moment captured on a family trip to Houston, where Azniv Korkejian (AKA Bedouine) discreetly recorded a conversation with her mother and later wove it into the song’s opening bars. The track becomes a vessel for a story her mother once carried alone, her childhood spent in an orphanage, placed there by her own mother as a way to escape an abusive father. Nearby, in those years, her mother would sing into the air as if sending a message across distance, feeling her daughter’s presence in the breeze. The line she remembers, “the waves of Beirut’s beaches flutter, and how sweetly they blow my darling’s…

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