Sasami unveils new single, "In Love With A Memory", featuring Clairo

“‘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," she continues. "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.”

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 track is accompanied by a music video directed by Jay Swuen.