{"id":2277962,"date":"2026-02-11T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2277962"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:10:16","slug":"mei-semones-shares-koneko-from-new-ep-kurage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mei-semones-shares-koneko-from-new-ep-kurage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mei Semones Shares &#8220;Koneko&#8221; From New EP &#8216;Kurage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mei Semones earned <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2302701\/artist-to-watch-mei-semones\/interviews\/band-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artist To Watch<\/a> status for last year&#8217;s debut album <em>Animaru<\/em>, a fine showcase for the guitarist and singer-songwriter&#8217;s eclectic sound. Semones is ready to offer up more music this spring in the form of the <em>Kurage<\/em> EP. The record includes three songs, each one with a featured guest: Liana Flores, John Roseboro, and Don Semones, who presumably is Mei&#8217;s relation.<\/p>\n<p>Lead single &#8220;Koneko&#8221; is a duet with Flores, Semones&#8217; British-Brazilian peer. Brimming with life, it leans into the jazzy, bossa-nova-inflected side of her work, its high-pitched vocal melodies dancing alongside playful, virtuosic guitar work. It&#8217;s charming. Semones offers some background:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I wrote this song about my first time in London in April of 2025. I was staying with Liana, and the imagery in the lyrics is inspired by our time together: we walked along the canal, drank tea, ate strawberries and cookies, played with her cat, and went to the park to look at the birds \ud83d\ude42 I hope that the song will make people smile and remind them of the pureness of a good friend <span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"\/><p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Directed by Shota Shiratori in London, the &#8220;Koneko&#8221; video features Semones and Flores enjoying that friendship. Watch below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mei Semones - Koneko (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZeycZRRZM3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>TRACKLIST:<br \/>01 &#8220;Koneko&#8221; (Feat. Liana Flores)<br \/>02 &#8220;Tooth Fairy&#8221; (Feat. John Roseboro)<br \/>03 &#8220;Kurage&#8221; (Feat. Don Semones)<\/p>\n<p><em>Kurage<\/em> is out 4\/10 via Bayonet. Pre-order it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bayonet.nyc\/kurage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taisei Sunakawa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mei Semones earned Artist To Watch status for last year&#8217;s debut album Animaru, a fine showcase for the guitarist and singer-songwriter&#8217;s eclectic sound. Semones is ready to offer up more music this spring in the form of the Kurage EP. The record includes three songs, each one with a featured guest: Liana Flores, John Roseboro, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2277963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mei-Semones-Shares-Koneko-From-New-EP-Kurage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277964,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277962\/revisions\/2277964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}