Diagonal Glissando

Diagonal Glissando is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays a moment of hesitation over who decides the speed of a relationship.
The closing melody of a department store, metal steps rising at an angle, a rubber handrail moving slightly faster than her feet, and a back that turns half a floor above create a restless scene where she sways between a partner who wants to move ahead and a self that will not surrender its own pace.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that does not deny anothers wish to advance, yet remembers that only the steps climbed by her own feet could ever be retraced.

Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and urban pop, the track reimagines that era urban lyricism through images of city nights, the floors of a department store, and the temperature gap between moving and staying.

Even as she sets her heel on the moving step, she keeps her hand off the rail and refuses to entrust her body. Carried upward, she still will not match the speed, holding a hesitation that has no name.

Produced by nanayon music.