SASAMI is gearing up to release her full pop embrace, Blood on the Silver Screen, on March 7. Today, she's shared the latest preview of the album — a Rostam co-produced duet with Clairo called "In Love with a Memory" — as well as a slate of North American tour dates behind the effort, set to include a couple of Canadian shows in Montreal and Toronto this spring.
"Rostam and I both studied composition, so he wanted to bring out more of my classical side," SASAMI said of the new track. "'In Love with a Memory' was actually the first song I wrote that ended up on Blood on the Silver Screen. 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 old 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."
After a handful of in-store performances in the US and the UK around the album release, SASAMI will hit the North American road starting April 19 in Los Angeles, CA. The following month, she'll venture to Canada for a pair of performances at Montreal's Bar Le Ritz PDB on May 9 and Toronto's Great Hall on May 10 ahead of wrapping things up stateside on May 24 in Napa, CA.
Tickets go on sale this Friday (January 31) at 10 a.m. local time. Find the full itinerary and "In Love with a Memory" video below, and Exclaim!'s Canadian concert listings database here.
SASAMI 2025 Tour Dates:
03/07 New York, NY - Rough Trade
03/10 London, UK - Rough Trade East
03/12 Liverpool, UK - Rough Trade Liverpool
03/13 Nottingham, UK - Rough Trade Nottingham
04/19 Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
04/22 Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
04/23 Santa Fe, NM - Launchpad
04/25 Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum Art Co
04/26 Austin, TX - Psych Fest
04/27 Houston, TX - White Oak
04/29 Nashville, TN - The Blue Room
04/30 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
05/02 Washington, D.C. - The Atlantis
05/03 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
05/05 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
05/08 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
05/09 Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz PDB
05/10 Toronto, ON - Great Hall
05/12 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
05/13 Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club
05/15 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
05/17 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Block Party
05/18 Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club
05/20 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
05/21 Seattle, WA - Neumos
05/22 Eugene, OR - Soreng Theatre
05/24 Napa, CA - BottleRock