MEI SEMONES in 4K - FULL SHOW - MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN NEW YORK - SEPT 26 2024

Описание: Official Website: https://www.meisemones.com/
Bandcamp Website: https://meisemones.bandcamp.com/
Official YouTube channel:    / @meisemones  
🐰 MEI opened this evening for ELEPHANT GYM on their 2024 WORLD TOUR (the band's 10-Year Anniversary)
Indoor Venue: Music Hall of Williamsburg, BROOKLYN (capacity: 650)

SETLIST🪲:
00:00 stage entrance
00:07 1.Tegami
03:28 2.Wakare No Kotoba
06:38 3.Inaka
10:05 4.Kemono
15:32 5.Dumb Feeling
19:18 6.Rat with Wings
24:22 7.Tora Moyou
27:29 8.I Can Do What I Want
31:08 9.Zarigani
35:40 band introductions
36:30 10.Animaru
40:00 11.Kodoku

BIOGRAPHY: (courtesy of Timothy Monger at allmusic.com https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mei-s...)
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Mei Semones makes sophisticated indie pop with undertones of jazz, bossa nova, and math rock. Based in Brooklyn, she issued her debut EP, Tsukino, in 2022. It featured lyrics in both Japanese and English, a trend she continued on subsequent releases including 2024's Kabutomushi EP, her debut for Brooklyn indie Bayonet Records.

Semones grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, playing piano and later switching to guitar. Initially attracted to indie rock, her tastes grew more eclectic as she began playing in local jazz and funk groups. While studying jazz guitar performance at Boston's Berklee College of Music, she started collaborating with artists like Reggie Pearl, the Brazen Youth, and G Luné, and releasing her own music. Blending a unique set of influences from Thelonius Monk and João Gilberto to Smashing Pumpkins, Semones recorded her debut EP, Tsukino, back in Michigan and self-released it in 2022. Singing in both Japanese and English, it introduced her savvy mix of intricate guitar pop with bossa nova rhythms and string arrangements (by Noah Leong). Its release coincided with a move from Boston to New York, and she spent the next year releasing a pair of interesting collaborations with John Roseboro ("Waters of March" and "How to Cope").

Semones joined the roster of Brooklyn's Bayonet Records at the start of 2024, and the indie label released her EP Kabutomushi in April. Produced, recorded, and mixed by Kai Tsao, it found her again joined by a small acoustic combo that included Leong on viola.