SASAMI and Clairo have released a new duet ‘In Love With A Memory’

SASAMI has shared new single ‘In Love With A Memory’, featuring Clairo, ahead of her forthcoming album ‘Blood On the Silver Screen’, due 7th March.

Co-produced with Rostam, the track draws inspiration from traditional Japanese pop ballads. The collaboration arrives alongside 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.”

SASAMI’s dates in full read:

MARCH
7 Rough Trade, New York, NY *
10 Rough Trade East, London, UK *
12 Rough Trade Liverpool, Liverpool, UK *
13 Rough Trade Nottingham, Nottingham, UK *

APRIL
19 Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA
22 Rebel Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
23 Launchpad, Santa Fe, NM
25 Deep Ellum Art Co, Dallas, TX
26 Psych Fest, Austin, TX
27 White Oak, Houston, TX
29 The Blue Room, Nashville, TN
30 The Earl, Atlanta, GA

MAY
2 The Atlantis, Washington, DC
3 Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA
5 Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
8 Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA
9 Le Ritz PDB, Montreal, QC
10 Great Hall, Toronto, ON
12 Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
13 Turf Club, Minneapolis, MN
15 Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO
17 Kilby Block Party, Salt Lake City, UT
18 Shrine Social Club, Boise, ID
20 Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
21 Neumos, Seattle, WA
22 Soreng Theatre, Eugene, OR
24 BottleRock, Napa, CA

* solo in-store performance