Song Exploder creator Hrishikesh Hirway not only talks with musicians to get behind-the-scenes access for certain creations, but is also a talented composer and performer in his own right. Today, he's shared a single called "Home" from his forthcoming EP, which features Jay Som as well as a co-writing credit from John Mark Nelson and co-production and mixing courtesy of GRAMMY-winning producer John Congleton.
“‘Home’ was written a year after the pandemic started, and about six months after my mother passed away,” Hirway explained. “Except for the week I traveled for her funeral, I had spent the entirety of the previous 13 months with my wife in the small house we’d lived in for the past eight years. I associate so much of the joy and disappointment and pain and contentment that we experienced with the places where I was at the time, but we carry all of it with us. I wanted to write a song about all of that: an ode to my wife and the life we’ve lived together; to the homes we’ve lived that life in; and to the home we still hope to find someday. I got Jay Som’s recording about five months after writing the song initially, and hearing those words through her voice, too, made it finally feel complete.”
In regard to the accompanying self-directed visual, Hirway added: “The video features portraits of real couples who have spent decades together. I wanted to capture the idea, in the simplest way possible, that their lives are intertwined and full of memory and history. And that history is palpable when you see them together.”
Watch the video below. He's also going on tour with Jenny Owen Youngs—you can get tickets for those shows here.
