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Wool Nocturne

Akemi

真冬の部屋に スタンドの円い灯

毛糸を一玉 膝で転がす

編み針が触れて 小さく鳴る夜

誰のでもない マフラーを編む

大和の母は 誰かの丈を

測って編んだ 役目のように

私は寸法を 持たずに編む

誰にも渡さぬ 私だけの目

一目落ちた 毛糸がふいに緩む

編み針が止まる 息も止まる

解けば全部 最初に戻る

戻すか進むか 針が迷う

落とした目は 編み地の真ん中

引けば一本 糸に戻る列

完ぺきに編み直す ことも出来る

でも今夜は この目のまま

手を止めれば 部屋が広くなる

大きな静けさに 飲まれぬように

指を動かす 数えるように編む

埋めるんじゃない 続けたいだけ

解かずに進む 針を動かす

一目の緩みを 指でならして

毛糸玉が 少し小さくなる

夜の残りが まだ長く続く

落とした目を 抱えたまま進む

編みかけのまま 膝に下ろす

誰に見せる あてもない長さ

円い灯の下 伸びてゆく毛糸

  • Lyricist

    Akemi

  • Composer

    Akemi

  • Producer

    nanayon music

  • Mixing Engineer

    nanayon music

  • Vocals

    Akemi

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    Wool Nocturne

    Akemi

Wool Nocturne is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays a deep winter night spent knitting a scarf meant for no one.
The round glow of a floor lamp, a ball of wool rolling over the knees, the faint click of needles, and a dropped stitch that could unravel into a single thread again create a quiet, solitary scene where a private stretch of time, watched over by no one, takes shape.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the loneliness of adulthood that knits for herself rather than carrying the role of knitting for someone else, holding the dropped stitch instead of undoing it, and choosing to grasp her solitude as her own time rather than filling it.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era quiet lyricism through images of winter nights, the air of a room, and the small sounds of handwork.

The moment she notices the slipped stitch, the needle pauses between starting over and moving on, and she chooses to go forward with the stitch as it is.
She keeps knitting a length she will never show to anyone, not to fill the emptiness but simply because she wants to continue, in a portrait of a quiet and deliberate solitude.

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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