Sasami Shares New Single “In Love With A Memory” ft. Clairo

SASAMI releases “In Love With A Memory (Feat. Clairo),” the wistful new single from her forthcoming audacious and epic new album, Blood On the Silver Screen. Co-produced with Rostam, the duet with Clairo takes inspiration from traditional Japanese pop ballads. “Rostam and I both studied composition, so he wanted to bring out more of my classical side,” SASAMI says. The song arrives today with a music video directed by Jay Swuen.

“‘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.”
PAPER Magazine, who premiered the video today and profiled SASAMI said “There’s pop music and then there’s pop as imagined by SASAMI…The Rostam-produced song glimmers like the desert sun, bright and moody and bedazzled with synth scales and acoustic guitar licks.”

Due March 7th on Domino, 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.