TOMONARI SORA just released a song he's kept hidden for years

TOMONARI SORA just reached back into his own teenage years and handed you the song he never meant to show anyone.

He wrote "ペダル PEDAL" in high school and it sat untouched for years until now, rearranged but rooted in exactly where it started: a song about summer, about a bicycle, about being young enough to believe you could pedal anywhere and never run out of road.

Trams cutting through town. The smell of rain right before it hits. The colour the sky turns just before it gives way to night. These are the small details TOMONARI SORA builds the song from, ones you only remember because you actually lived inside them once. That's what "ペダル PEDAL" gets right: it doesn't try to perform nostalgia, it just quietly hands you a memory that feels like your own.

The timing isn't incidental either. TOMONARI SORA wrapped his one-man solo tour on 7 July, and this release lands a day later alongside a new artist profile photo – one chapter closing just as an old one gets pulled back into the light. There's something fitting about an artist ending a tour by returning to who he was before any of this started.

For most of its runtime, the song stays light, airy and breezy, built for a bike ride rather than a spotlight. Then a saxophone solo shifts the mood entirely, and suddenly you're seventeen again.
TOMONARI SORA didn't write "ペダル PEDAL" to be a single. He wrote it to remember something. Now, for the first time, so can you.