SASAMI
il nuovo singolo
“IN LOVE WITH A MEMORY (FEAT. CLAIRO)”
il nuovo album
BLOOD ON THE SILVER SCREEN
in uscita il 7 marzo su Domino
SASAMI pubblica “In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo)”, il nuovo malinconico singolo tratto dal suo nuovo audace ed epico album Blood On the Silver Screen in uscita il 7 marzo. Co-prodotto con Rostam, il duetto con Clairo trae ispirazione dalle tradizionali ballate pop giapponesi. “Io e Rostam abbiamo studiato entrambi composizione, quindi lui voleva far emergere il mio lato più classico”, dice SASAMI. La canzone è accompagnata da un video musicale diretto da Jay Swuen.
Early Praise for Blood On the Silver Screen:
"SASAMI hits pop out of the park on her latest single ‘Slugger’” Rolling Stone
“A bold, oversized romantic declaration, with plenty of cymbal-bashing and a new shade of the fearlessness that Sasami Ashworth displayed on her 2022 album Squeeze” Billboard
"Where once she wrote music for sticky-floored rock shows, 'Honeycrash' feels purpose-built for much bigger venues. It's a bold and intriguing reinvention, the kind that makes you sit upright and pay attention" The FADER
“The genre-bending musician fuses ballads, heavy metal and industrial sounds to create music dripping with emotion” Dazed
"Emotionally and sonically daring pop music... 'Honeycrash' cements itself as one of the most fearless feats in her discography thus far" Paste
“Epic, stadium-sized songwriting” Clash
"Between ‘Honeycrash’ and ‘Slugger,’ SASAMI has already built excitement for her upcoming album Blood on the Silver Screen. Now, she has a new single out that demonstrates what the album may be capable of. ‘Just Be Friends’ boasts passionate lyrics that capture the intensity of romance and a poppy melody that is both soft and catchy. There is some innocence to the sound of this song, but the overall product shows Sasami’s maturity as an artist" Consequence
“‘In Love With A Memory’ was actually the first song I wrote that ended up on Blood On the Silver Screen,” SASAMI explains. “I grew up going to Japanese or Korean ‘noraebang’ private karaoke rooms with my mom, who was secretly the most incredible singer. Most of her go-to numbers were oooold Japanese and Korean folk songs that low key kind of made me feel like I was in a horror film or David Lynch movie. I can picture my mom in a Julee Cruise-type setting- single, jazz lounge spotlight and cigarette smoke hanging stalely in the air- singing one of those old songs with the most gorgeously haunting vibrato and breathtaking vocal control. That’s the feeling I was tapping into when I started writing ‘In Love With A Memory’, and there is a very timeless but relevant crooning feeling imbued in the song that I think was perfectly reflected by the production that Rostam and I orchestrated together. Claire has been a longtime, long distance friend and dream collaborator for me, so it was such a magnificent gift for her to lend her voice to the narrative. I really imagine this track as a cinematic duet with a ghost.”
Stream “In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo)” here.
Due out March 7th, Blood On the Silver Screen finds the polymath combining her classical conservatory-trained skills as a player, producer, and composer with her fearless and bombastic stage persona to create her most realized music to date: the all-out SASAMI pop record.
Additionally, SASAMI has also announced a run of UK instores alongside a North American tour, her explosive live show is not to be missed.
Tour Dates:
March - New York, NY @ Rough Trade *
March - London, UK @ Rough Trade East *
March - Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade Liverpool *
March - Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade Nottingham *
April - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
April - Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
April - Santa Fe, NM @ Launchpad
April - Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Co
April - Austin, TX @ Psych Fest
April - Houston, TX @ White Oak
April - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
April - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
May - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
May - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
May - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
May - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
May - Montreal, QC @ Le Ritz PDB
May - Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
May - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
May - Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club
May - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
May - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
May - Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
May - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
May - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
May - Eugene, OR @ Soreng Theatre
May - Napa, CA @ BottleRock
* solo in-store performance
Working with co-producers Jenn Decilveo and Rostam, with SASAMI as sole writer, each Blood On the Silver Screen track viscerally captures a different thread of love, sex, power, and embodiment. “Pop music is like fuel,” Sasami says. “It’s just invigorating.” Eschewing today’s pop zeitgeist, Sasami gravitated towards late aughts and 2010s pop a la Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, plus Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, and Sia. She was influenced by modern country storytelling, mixing vulnerability with humor, and the mood board also included Prince, Japanese city pop, and the stadium-sized, denim-clad iconography of Bruce Springsteen.
Now in her early 30s, Sasami didn’t grow up listening to much pop music, and even felt pressures to avoid it. “I was always a weirdo outsider and I didn’t feel like pop music spoke to me,” she said. “Being a woman of color, I’ve always felt this pressure or need to make something that’s mysterious or innovative, and always shied away from lightheartedness.” But she also sees Blood On the Silver Screen’s embrace of pleasure as a kind of personal reclamation. Raised in Los Angeles in the “conservative religious cult” of the Unification Church, her senses of herself and her sexuality were skewed. “My relationship to love and sex was so tied into these repressive, super restrictive definitions,” she says. The album is an extension of her process of coming into herself as part of a generation unbeholden to conventions around love, sex, or the nuclear family. “This album for me is about having deep, meaningful relationships within a new definition of what is good, what is right, and what is powerful,” she says. “We are still passionate beings.”
“I wanted to go all out with this album,” Sasami continues. “I wanted to, in my tenderness and emotionality, have the bravery to undertake something as epic as making a pop record about love. I hope it makes people feel empowered and embodied, too. It’s important to not box yourself in.”
Blood On the Silver Screen is available to pre-order at the Domino Mart on Blood Red and Standard Black vinyl, CD and digitally. Dom Mart | Digital
Ilaria
il nuovo singolo
“IN LOVE WITH A MEMORY (FEAT. CLAIRO)”
il nuovo album
BLOOD ON THE SILVER SCREEN
in uscita il 7 marzo su Domino
SASAMI pubblica “In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo)”, il nuovo malinconico singolo tratto dal suo nuovo audace ed epico album Blood On the Silver Screen in uscita il 7 marzo. Co-prodotto con Rostam, il duetto con Clairo trae ispirazione dalle tradizionali ballate pop giapponesi. “Io e Rostam abbiamo studiato entrambi composizione, quindi lui voleva far emergere il mio lato più classico”, dice SASAMI. La canzone è accompagnata da un video musicale diretto da Jay Swuen.
Early Praise for Blood On the Silver Screen:
"SASAMI hits pop out of the park on her latest single ‘Slugger’” Rolling Stone
“A bold, oversized romantic declaration, with plenty of cymbal-bashing and a new shade of the fearlessness that Sasami Ashworth displayed on her 2022 album Squeeze” Billboard
"Where once she wrote music for sticky-floored rock shows, 'Honeycrash' feels purpose-built for much bigger venues. It's a bold and intriguing reinvention, the kind that makes you sit upright and pay attention" The FADER
“The genre-bending musician fuses ballads, heavy metal and industrial sounds to create music dripping with emotion” Dazed
"Emotionally and sonically daring pop music... 'Honeycrash' cements itself as one of the most fearless feats in her discography thus far" Paste
“Epic, stadium-sized songwriting” Clash
"Between ‘Honeycrash’ and ‘Slugger,’ SASAMI has already built excitement for her upcoming album Blood on the Silver Screen. Now, she has a new single out that demonstrates what the album may be capable of. ‘Just Be Friends’ boasts passionate lyrics that capture the intensity of romance and a poppy melody that is both soft and catchy. There is some innocence to the sound of this song, but the overall product shows Sasami’s maturity as an artist" Consequence
“‘In Love With A Memory’ was actually the first song I wrote that ended up on Blood On the Silver Screen,” SASAMI explains. “I grew up going to Japanese or Korean ‘noraebang’ private karaoke rooms with my mom, who was secretly the most incredible singer. Most of her go-to numbers were oooold Japanese and Korean folk songs that low key kind of made me feel like I was in a horror film or David Lynch movie. I can picture my mom in a Julee Cruise-type setting- single, jazz lounge spotlight and cigarette smoke hanging stalely in the air- singing one of those old songs with the most gorgeously haunting vibrato and breathtaking vocal control. That’s the feeling I was tapping into when I started writing ‘In Love With A Memory’, and there is a very timeless but relevant crooning feeling imbued in the song that I think was perfectly reflected by the production that Rostam and I orchestrated together. Claire has been a longtime, long distance friend and dream collaborator for me, so it was such a magnificent gift for her to lend her voice to the narrative. I really imagine this track as a cinematic duet with a ghost.”
Stream “In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo)” here.
Due out March 7th, Blood On the Silver Screen finds the polymath combining her classical conservatory-trained skills as a player, producer, and composer with her fearless and bombastic stage persona to create her most realized music to date: the all-out SASAMI pop record.
Additionally, SASAMI has also announced a run of UK instores alongside a North American tour, her explosive live show is not to be missed.
Tour Dates:
March - New York, NY @ Rough Trade *
March - London, UK @ Rough Trade East *
March - Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade Liverpool *
March - Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade Nottingham *
April - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
April - Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
April - Santa Fe, NM @ Launchpad
April - Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Co
April - Austin, TX @ Psych Fest
April - Houston, TX @ White Oak
April - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
April - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
May - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
May - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
May - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
May - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
May - Montreal, QC @ Le Ritz PDB
May - Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
May - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
May - Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club
May - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
May - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
May - Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
May - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
May - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
May - Eugene, OR @ Soreng Theatre
May - Napa, CA @ BottleRock
* solo in-store performance
Working with co-producers Jenn Decilveo and Rostam, with SASAMI as sole writer, each Blood On the Silver Screen track viscerally captures a different thread of love, sex, power, and embodiment. “Pop music is like fuel,” Sasami says. “It’s just invigorating.” Eschewing today’s pop zeitgeist, Sasami gravitated towards late aughts and 2010s pop a la Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, plus Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, and Sia. She was influenced by modern country storytelling, mixing vulnerability with humor, and the mood board also included Prince, Japanese city pop, and the stadium-sized, denim-clad iconography of Bruce Springsteen.
Now in her early 30s, Sasami didn’t grow up listening to much pop music, and even felt pressures to avoid it. “I was always a weirdo outsider and I didn’t feel like pop music spoke to me,” she said. “Being a woman of color, I’ve always felt this pressure or need to make something that’s mysterious or innovative, and always shied away from lightheartedness.” But she also sees Blood On the Silver Screen’s embrace of pleasure as a kind of personal reclamation. Raised in Los Angeles in the “conservative religious cult” of the Unification Church, her senses of herself and her sexuality were skewed. “My relationship to love and sex was so tied into these repressive, super restrictive definitions,” she says. The album is an extension of her process of coming into herself as part of a generation unbeholden to conventions around love, sex, or the nuclear family. “This album for me is about having deep, meaningful relationships within a new definition of what is good, what is right, and what is powerful,” she says. “We are still passionate beings.”
“I wanted to go all out with this album,” Sasami continues. “I wanted to, in my tenderness and emotionality, have the bravery to undertake something as epic as making a pop record about love. I hope it makes people feel empowered and embodied, too. It’s important to not box yourself in.”
Blood On the Silver Screen is available to pre-order at the Domino Mart on Blood Red and Standard Black vinyl, CD and digitally. Dom Mart | Digital
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