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Coming Home (feat. Akira Satake)

by Anya Hinkle

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Americana singer/songwriter Anya Hinkle and Japanese banjoist and composer Akira Satake team up to release “Coming Home,” a nostalgic and spare song with echoes of a childhood summer in Japan. “Coming Home” was originally written as an instrumental banjo piece by Satake with lyrics written and sung by Hinkle.

This is the second release of a Hinkle/Satake collaboration; the first, “Hills of Swannanoa” appears on Hinkle’s album “Eden and Her Borderlands” (Organic Records, 2021), which won runner-up in the 18th International Acoustic Music Awards song competition in the country/bluegrass category.

“Akira had written this beautiful instrumental called ‘Coming Home’ and asked me to write lyrics to go with it. When I asked him what the song was about, he described many beautiful memories of his childhood in Osaka, Japan. I tried to capture some details of the sounds, sights, tastes, and smells of Japan in late summer—children playing baseball in the city, the smells of food cooking as you wander through narrow alleys, the sounds of bicycles and trains, the resounding songs of cicadas. It’s a pleasure collaborating again with Akira."

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at the end of twilight
beginning of nightfall
waning sun falling from the golden summer sky

baseballs are sailing
to gloves are waiting
like shooting stars through the darkening night

an evening train whispers by
shadows walking in the street

I wander through the alley home
mamas waiting steaming bowls

It’s miles away from here
and it’s years since I been there
but in my mind I’m always coming home


cicadas are singing
as darkness is bringing
all of the children home for the day

bellies are rumbling
every kitchen they’re stumbling
and hurrying home for the very first taste

a bicycle passes by
squeaking wheel every time it turns

I hear the wind chimes on the breeze
rustling the leaves on the trees

it’s miles away from here
and it’s years since I been there
but in my mind I’m always coming home

if I wander, if I go
i’m always coming home

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released July 29, 2022
Thanks to Echo Mountain Studios for gifting the studio time to record this track.

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Anya Hinkle Asheville, North Carolina

BORN IN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA, ANYA’S MUSIC IS STEEPED IN THE TONES OF FOLK AND BLUEGRASS, SEASONED BY TRAVELS ACROSS THE WORLD WITH VIVID STORYTELLING, VIBRANT MUSICIANSHIP, AND ARRESTING HONESTY. SHE WON THE MERLEFEST CHRIS AUSTIN SONG CONTEST AND A FINALIST IN THE HAZEL DICKENS SONGWRITING COMPETITION IN 2019 AND WAS RUNNER-UP IN THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC AWARDS. ... more

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