[JAPAN] UA goes environmental with new album release

In a recent interview for JapanToday.com, Dan Grunebaum recently interviewed singer UA who is releasing a new album.

Featuring an excerpt from the interview, Grunebaum writes, “A wish to reclaim one’s audience is of course a good motivator to get back to more approachable territory. “It’s been 10 years since I debuted, and during that time I’ve always recorded for myself,” she explains. “This was the first time I made an album with the hope that it would be heard by many people. I finally got used to the idea.”

“But her attempt to reach out wasn’t simply in hopes of returning to her platinum status of a decade ago. It turns out that a move UA and her son made three years ago from Tokyo to the countryside, where she now grows her own rice, provided the background.”

Read the interview

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