CITY LIGHTS & MIDNIGHT BLUE

CITY LIGHTS & MIDNIGHT BLUE is the first album by the fictional AI singer Akemi, collecting twelve stories of the city at night in a cassette style A side and B side of six songs each.
Blue bleeding into a crossing signal, jet noise over a base town fence, a last order at a closing bar, and a quiet checkout before dawn trace one continuous hour between glittering city lights and the deep loneliness of midnight blue.

Across these twelve tracks, Akemi sings the emotions of adulthood that keeps walking the night on its own feet, through rainy Route 246, Route 16 in a base town, and a terminal after the last train.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the album reimagines that era urban lyricism through images of city nights, bar counters, car interiors, and rainy afternoons.

Side A walks the city from the side of its lights, and Side B walks the same city again from the depth of the night.
By the time the final track fades, the wind of early dawn passes through, leaving one full night of stories inside a single hour.

Produced by nanayon music.