UQiYO Releases Cross Border Collaboration Single with Froya

UQiYO is back with a new single. Japanese Pop Music Project UQiYO has announced the release of a cross-border collaboration single with Malaysian singer-songwriter, Froya. It is titled, “invisible” and has been released on the 5th of March. The project has collaborated with many outstanding creators locally and internationally in the music industry. It is now out on digital streaming platforms. This is ahead of the band’s full album which is slated for release on March 26, 2021.

How UQiYO & Froya Created The Track

As they met in Niigata, Japan for a co-writing session, the collaborative single was written by both UQiYO and Froya. It’s about the snowy city itself. Frontman Yuqi Kato shares, “Having many important people including family and friends from and currently living in Niigata, I was very familiar with the city. This time, I tried to see Niigata through Froya’s eyes as it was her first-time experiencing snow, and the city. I wanted to express this experience in an infinitely detailed and deeply layered manner like a snowflake-like superstring theory where all particles and fundamental forces of nature are in one theory, but with many branches. If the color of sound is a ray of light, then all the tones combined create white, nothingness, a dream, dazzlingly transparent, which became of this song.”

About The Single

The single, ‘invisible’ blends both UQiYO’s and Froya’s different artistic approaches. It effortlessly weaves both sounds into a cohesive genre-bending experience. This includes the crafting of sounds of Niigata, as well as sounds inspired through a jamming session in a century-old traditional Japanese ryokan. A sonically liberating single, ‘invisible’ allows listeners to groove in a rather nonchalant way. Froya reveals, “The single signifies the hidden strength and potential inherent in everybody waiting to be uncovered, rising from the surface, just like flowers blooming in the springtime.”

It is been revealed that, UQiYO’s brand new album, ‘loom’ is slated for release on March 26th, 2021. The album will include prolific collaborations with Southeast Asian artists. Stay tuned for more details on the upcoming album!