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Round Fan, Evening Calm

Akemi

高島平の 西日のベランダ

団扇をひとつ しならせて あおぐ

縁側があった 家の夏には

「姉さん」の声と 低い飛行機

麦茶のコップに 汗が伝う

「風がないな」と 遠い横顔

さっきまで二つ 交わした風が

ぱたりと止んで 蝉だけになる

送れば届くと 紙をしならせ

あなたの襟へ 風を投げる

けれど届くのは 私の首

あおぐほど遠い 夕凪の熱

あなたは自分の うなじをあおぐ

風の分け目が 二つに割れる

二人の間の 十センチほど

影だけ伸びて 西日が落ちる

しなりの浅さは 腕が知ってる

先に手を放す ほうが早くて

痺れた手首を 膝に下ろして

送らない側へ 私は回る

止めれば凪ぐと 柄を横にする

あなたの襟には もう向けない

手すりの外に 夜が降りて

蝉が遠くで 拍子を落とす

この風は今 自分の首へ

団扇をそっと 膝に伏せる

あおぎ合った夏を たたんだあとで

動かない団扇に 蝉の声だけ

  • Lyricist

    Akemi

  • Composer

    Akemi

  • Producer

    nanayon music

  • Mixing Engineer

    nanayon music

  • Vocals

    Akemi

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    Round Fan, Evening Calm

    Akemi

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.

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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