Night's B-Side

Night's B-Side is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays a woman returning, after many years, to a record she was given on the night before she left her hometown.

A box on the lowest shelf, worn paper corners, a scratch across a black label, and the letters of the B side traced by a fingertip create a quiet scene where feelings left unspoken slowly regain their shape.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that asks for no explanation and puts no name to a relationship, choosing instead to examine what was once received with her own hands.

Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era urban lyricism through images of records, unfamiliar city lights, and a hometown remembered through a telephone line.

Without asking why the song suited her, she stays beside the needle until the very last groove.
Then she returns the record to the bottom of the box, opens the window, and sets out her shoes for tomorrow.

Produced by nanayon music.