Tangerine Season

Tangerine Season is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays the moment of receiving the foretaste of an ending within the settled winter happiness of sharing tangerines at the kotatsu.
A winter night in Shimokitazawa, a net bag drawn close, white threads picked off with a nail, segments parted onto a plate, the bag growing lighter, and the last one offered with the words let us halve it create a warm and quiet scene where the finite is sensed at the very heart of contentment.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that knows the nearer the fire the sooner it burns out, and so, rather than wishing for this winter to last forever, keeps the final segment for the self of tomorrow and takes in only the single piece of now.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era lyrical subtlety through images of a winter night at the kotatsu, the scent of tangerines, and the temperature of shared time.

In a room that grows warmer as the net bag empties, she takes the halved segment quietly upon her tongue and breathes in the tangerine soaked into her nails.
Without saying let this winter stay, she keeps one segment for the self of tomorrow, receiving the finiteness of happiness on a quiet winter night.
Produced by nanayon music.