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On February 28, 2026, singer-songwriter Minori Nakano will release her new digital single, "Cosmic Farewell."
Fully self-produced, Nakano handled every step of the process-from songwriting, composition, and arrangement to mixing and mastering. By sampling her own voice and building the soundscape from it, she captures emotions that exist even before they can be put into words.

The theme of the song is "encounters." In life, there are relationships that appear temporarily to teach us something, and relationships that continue to support and sustain us over time. This track focuses on the former: meetings that feel fated for a moment, only to fade once their purpose has been fulfilled. The people we meet reflect who we are at that time, bringing unresolved emotions-such as attachment or jealousy-to the surface. When we finally accept those feelings, the connection naturally completes itself, and separation arrives quietly.

"Cosmic Farewell" transforms that process into sound: the release of long-held emotions-perhaps carried beyond this lifetime-and the joy, sorrow, pain, loneliness, conflict, and healing that accompany moving through an encounter. A music video will be released soon on Minori Nakano's official YouTube channel, with Nakano currently creating the animation herself.