Shinto Groove

Shinto Groove is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays a summer night spent just outside the circle of a festival, where only her own side has quietly changed.
Vermilion rails around a shrine grove, drums carrying from a distant tower, a white blouse on the walk home from work, water falling on a bronze basin, and the low hum of power lines overhead create a dim and humid scene where a sentence that breaks off becomes impossible to ignore.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that recognizes its own change and refuses to pretend otherwise, drawing a line by hand instead of letting the night decide.
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 festival heard from a distance, humid night air, and the walk back down into the city.

She draws back the hand she had started to reach and takes hold of the leather strap again.
Keeping exactly one step of distance, she passes through the gate and descends into the rows of street lamps, leaving the night without a name.

Produced by nanayon music.