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"prose-op.2" is a piano piece delicately depicting the fleeting nature of life. It allows listeners to forget the noise of everyday life and explore inner peace and the depths of emotion.
The simple yet beautiful piano tones intricately portray the life cycle of a flower. They capture the delicate moment of a flower's bloom, its peak of beauty, and the slow process of withering, with unpredictable musical developments reflecting the beauty and transience of life.
Each note evokes the elegance and ephemeral nature of life, reminiscent of petals opening and closing. The anxious harmonies and hidden beautiful melodies within them depict complex layers of emotion lurking within beauty.
It invokes deep empathy in listeners, reminiscent of the joy and simultaneous melancholy felt while gazing at beautiful flowers, leaving a quiet aftertaste.
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 2002, Misaki Umei began playing piano at the age of four, and started playing electone and composing music at the age of six. She has received awards in numerous piano and electone competitions, and graduated from the Composition Department at Tokyo College of Music. She was selected as one of the 25 Japanese artists featured in Rolling Stone Japan's Future of Music. In 2025, she performed at ROOKIE A GO-GO at FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL 2025. In July 2025, she released Asleep Above Creatures, her first album under her solo name. In January 2026, she released the single L a d y, followed by a headline show at Shibuya WWW in April. In addition to her work as an emerging pianist and musician, Umei has been attracting attention as one of the next-generation artists to watch, with a seamless range of activities including haruyoi, her unit with Sakika Kanno, and °pbdb, her unit with Fuki Kitamura.
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