SASAMI announces Blood On The Silver Screen: Director’s Cut, an expanded version of her 2025 album featuring reimaginings and remixes of its songs by friends and collaborators, including “Honeycrash (Angie McMahon Cut)” and “I’ll Be Gone (Patti Harrison Remix Cut),” both released today. Last year SASAMI shared “Just Be Friends (Soccer Mommy Cut),” which appears on the deluxe version of the album as well. Blood On The Silver Screen: Director’s Cut is digital-only and available for pre-order now ahead of its release on March 27th via Domino.
“Celebrating one year of Blood On the Silver Screen, I feel like I’m reaching the end of a three-album long cycle in my life, where I’ve stretched my brain and spirit into a lot of different realms of music making,”SASAMI explains. “Obviously B.O.S.S. is my sojourn into the linguistic world of pop, but I also stopped along with metal and folk and many other manners of music making along the way. This year I feel myself being pulled home to classical music, where it all started for me.”
Naturally, SASAMI will be appearing alongside a chamber ensemble and guest performers this month on the Blood On The Silver Screen Reimagined Tour, which kicks off this week in San Francisco and then continues to Los Angeles and New York. “These March shows will showcase some re-orchestrated renditions of songs from B.O.S.S. and beyond, featuring a chamber ensemble of classical instruments instead of flashing lights and e-drums. Expect choirs and strings and experimental instrumentation from me and my guest artists- something different at each show.” Tickets are available now at sasamiashworth.com
Listen to “Honeycrash (Angie McMahon cut)” here.
Listen to “I’ll Be Gone (Patti Harrison remix cut)” here.
Additionally, SASAMI will be teaching a new online workshop through School of Song, taught online via Zoom lectures across 4 consecutive Sundays starting April 5th. Every week, SASAMI will give a lecture on subjects specific to her music making process with each class resulting in a homework assignment to write a song using the techniques discussed in the lecture. Some of the topics explored by Sasami in her lectures will include: observed patterns in pop music, starting a song with voice, exploring the album as a dissertation, plus orchestration, genre, and technology. Sign up at schoolofsong.org.
On Blood On the Silver Screen, released last year, the California-based polymath combined 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. Working with co-producers Jenn Decilveo and Rostam, with SASAMI as sole writer, each Blood On the Silver Screen track viscerally captures a different thread of love, sex, power, and embodiment. “Pop music is like fuel,” Sasami says. “It’s just invigorating.” Eschewing today’s pop zeitgeist, Sasami gravitated towards late aughts and 2010s pop a la Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, plus Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, and Sia. She was influenced by modern country storytelling, mixing vulnerability with humor, and the mood board also included Prince, Japanese city pop, and the stadium-sized, denim-clad iconography of Bruce Springsteen.