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Seams Allegro

Akemi

日曜の窓 代々木の木漏れ日

袖口の布を 指で送る

棚のカップが いつのまにか二つ

キッチンの奥に バターの匂い

鶴間の台所 母の背中

ミシンの音が あの朝と同じ

踏みこむ足裏 速度が揺れて

小田急の踏切 遠く響く

直線(ストレート)のまま ペダルを踏む

カタカタ軽く 針が駆けていくの

指先が布を 前へ送りだす

一定のリズムで 日曜を縫う

下糸が薄く 縫い目が粗れて

「二段目の引き出しにあるよ」と声

開けた手が止まる ボビンの横

端切れ一枚 三茶の朝の色

ペダルから足が 浮く手前

鶴間を出た日の 玄関が過り

壊した側の影 踵にまだ

踏み直す圧で また布を送る

レバーをジグザグへ 回せば

カタカタ低く 針が揺れて進む

窓の外を見れば 代々木の枝が

木漏れ日を分けて 次の時間へ

「ずっと」は 今は言わない

新しいボビン 指で押し込む

少しだけジグザグの 縫い目を置く

窓際のペダルを 踏み直す

  • Lyricist

    Akemi

  • Composer

    Akemi

  • Producer

    nanayon music

  • Mixing Engineer

    nanayon music

  • Vocals

    Akemi

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    Seams Allegro

    Akemi

Seams Allegro is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays a Sunday afternoon when a woman mending a shirt cuff at a treadle sewing machine quietly chooses not to say "forever" - at least not for now - and instead presses in a fresh bobbin and settles the pedal back down with just a little zigzag left in the seam.
Yoyogi light through the leaves, two coffee cups grown quietly onto the shelf, a spare bobbin paired with a scrap of fabric in the second drawer, and the remembered doorway of the day she left Tsuruma build a still interior scene where the rhythm of the pedal carries the temperature of a relationship.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that do not rush to name a happiness, and choose the pressure of the pedal instead of a word, noticing how a life is being prepared for her outside of her own control.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era urban lyricism through images of sewing machines, Sunday light, and the quiet investments two people make into a shared room.

Turning the lever from straight stitch to zigzag, she lets the needle sway forward. The word "forever" she keeps to herself for now, and the answer is given in the seam instead of the mouth, on a Sunday that belongs to no one and to both of them at once.
Produced by nanayon music.

Artist Profile

  • Akemi

    A music project that reimagines the melancholic mood and nighttime glow of late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese City Pop and New Music through AI-assisted production and human direction. Akemi is a fictional singer with a backstory of being from Yamato City, Kanagawa, Japan. She sings of urban solitude, grown-up love, and bittersweet afterglow in a noir-tinged city pop sound. Lyrics, composition, vocals, and visuals are created using generative tools and curated through editing. This is an experimental project exploring the human warmth and nostalgia that can emerge from AI.

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