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BL4CK PEARL, a project of vocalist Vela and musician SOZEN OTSUBO, presents their long-awaited new single, "Utopia."

The song was written for "The Journey of Ship's Cat 2022-2025" (2025), the latest film in contemporary artist Kenji Yanobe's "SHIP'S CAT" series. It debuted live on October 4, 2025, alongside reggae musician DOZAN11 aka Dozan Miki, at the opening event of Kenji Yanobe's "Open Storage 2025 LUCA: THE LANDING." The event took place at MASK (MEGA ART STORAGE KITAKAGAYA), a large-scale art storage facility in Kitakagaya, Osaka. The music video was released afterward.

"Utopia" is the second chapter of the BL4CK PEARL x Kenji Yanobe collaboration. It follows "Dawn," the theme song for "SHIP'S CAT (Muse)," which was permanently installed at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, in 2022. Where "Dawn" depicted the beginning of a journey, "Utopia" sings of where that journey leads. The story is a grand mythology in which countless "space cats" carry the seeds of life to Earth from "LUCA," a spaceship shaped like the Tower of the Sun with cat ears. The song follows this journey from 2022 to 2025, from "BIG CAT BANG" at GINZA SIX in Tokyo to the spaceship's "landing" in Osaka. Rooted in R&B and pop, with touches of electronic and ambient textures, BL4CK PEARL's signature urban sound carries the lingering resonance of the space cats' voyage.