SASAMI has teamed up with Clairo for the pensive new single ‘In Love With a Memory’, which draws inspiration from traditional Japanese pop ballads. It’s the latest single in the lead-up to SASAMI’s forthcoming album, Blood on the Silver Screen, following ‘Honeycrash’, ‘Slugger’, and ‘Just Be Friends’. Check it out via the accompanying Jay Swuen-directed video below.
“‘In Love With A Memory’ was actually the first song I wrote that ended up on Blood On the Silver Screen,” SASAMI explained in a press release. “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.”
Blood on the Silver Screen is due for release on March 7, 2025 via Domino.
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