Mei Semones on ’Animaru,’ singing in Japanese and her jazz influences
GEN F: Mei Semones can face anything with her guitar On her bossa/jazz/J-pop album Animaru, Semones learns to live instinctively after a quarter-lifetime mired in self-consciousness. By Raphael Helfand Photographer Ray Warren The FADER’s longstanding GEN F series profiles the emerging artists you need to know right now. It’s Tuesday afternoon at Carousel, the only…