Round Fan, Evening Calm

Round Fan, Evening Calm is a mid tempo city pop track set on an apartment balcony in Takashimadaira, portraying the evening the breeze two people once traded between them falls still.
A glass of barley tea sweating in the west light, a distant profile murmuring that there is no wind, and a paper fan bending toward a collar it can no longer reach create a humid summer scene where the parting of the wind quietly splits in two.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that does not beg the other person to turn around, but chooses the direction of her own wind and stops sending it first.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era lyrical subtlety through images of housing complex balconies, summer dusk, and the lingering voices of cicadas.

No longer aiming for his collar, she turns the breeze toward her own neck.
After folding away the summer they fanned each other, she lays the fan face down on her knee, and only the cicadas keep the rhythm of the evening calm.

Produced by nanayon music.