Sasami Releases MORNING COMES Video, On Tour Now

Today, SASAMI has shared a video for "Morning Comes," the latest from her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, out now via Domino. The video was co-directed by Sasami Ashworth and Eric Notarnicola (Nathan For You, Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Who Is America?).

Of the video, SASAMI says "'Morning Comes' is the first song with lyrics I ever wrote and recorded. I wrote it at the beginning of a year's cycle of sentiments and emotional convictions. It marked a (fleeting) chapter of independence, confidence, and feeling in control. This was soon followed by many lapses in said control and emotional strength (hence every other song on the album lol). It seemed fitting to make a music video featuring the most stable and strong person I know - my grandmother (Halmoni). She is a boss ass bitch and makes truly the most epic kimchi on planet earth. Watch the video for yourself and visit her shop in LA if you really want to know the TRUTH."

The video joins a suite of brilliant videos for previous singles off the album, including "Not The Time," "Jealousy," and "Free."

SASAMI is on tour now and has announced summer dates with Broken Social Scene, Snail Mail and a European tour in the fall. All dates below.

TOUR DATES:

4/11 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir

4/12 - Seattle, WA - Barboza

4/13 - Vancouver, BC - Wise Hall

4/15 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux
4/17 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake
4/18 - Omaha, NE - Reverb
4/19 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
4/20 - St. Paul, MN - Amsterdam Bar and Hall
4/21 - Milwaukee, WI - Colectivo (Back Room)
4/23 - Chicago, IL - Schubas

4/24 - Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room
4/25 - Toronto, ON - Baby G
4/26 - Montreal, QC - Quai Des Brumes
4/27 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
4/29 - Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMOCA
4/30 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere (SOLD OUT)

5/1 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade

5/3 - Washington, DC - DC9
5/4 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
5/5 - Columbus, OH - Rumba Café
5/6 - Nashville, TN - The Basement
5/8 - Dallas, TX - Three Links
5/9 - Austin, TX - Barracuda

5/12 - Arcosanti, AZ @ FORM

6/5 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda ^

7/17 - Lawrence, KS @ The Granada *

7/18 - St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway *

7/24 - Louisville, KY @ Headliner's *

7/25 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom *

8/29 - Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana

8/29 - 9/1 - Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road

8/29 - 9/1 - Stradbelly, IRL @ Electric Picnic

9/3 - Glasgow, UK @ The Hug and Pint

9/4 - Manchester, UK @ YES (The Pink Room)

9/5 - Cardiff, UK @ Clwb lfor Bach

9/6 - Lancaster, UK @ Lancaster Library

9/7 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

9/9 - Brighton, UK @ Green Door Store

9/10 - Paris, FR @ Supersonic

9/11 - Cologne, DE @ Burmann & Songs

9/13 - Munich, DE @ Import Export

9/14 - Vienna, AT @ Das Wek

9/16 - Prague, CZ @ Cafe V Lese

9/17 - Berlin, DE @ Berghain Kantine

9/19 - Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival

9/20 - Mijmegen, NL @ Merleyn

9/21 - Utrecht, NL @ Ekko

9/24 - London, UK @ The Moth Club

^ w/ Broken Social Scene

* w/ Snail Mail

If you've ever drafted an overly long text to someone and decided against sending it, then you'll probably hear something of yourself in SASAMI, out March 8th, 2019."It's a mix of a diary and a collection of letters, written but never sent, to people I've been intimately involved with in one way or another," explains Los Angeles songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sasami Ashworth, aka SASAMI, who wrote the album's ten tautly melodic rock tracks over the course of a year on tour, playing keys and guitar with Cherry Glazerr. "Ok, maybe they're more like over-dramatic drafts of texts that you compose in the Notes section of your iPhone, but either way, they come from a place of getting something off my chest." In an Instagram post announcing the release of "Callous," a haunting ballad chronicling the disintegration of a relationship over wrenching guitar wails, she sums up the inspiration behind her engrossingly confessional debut more bluntly: "Everyone I fed and who fed me last year."

Originating as a string of demos she recorded straight to her iPad whilst on tour with Cherry Glazerr, the songs poured out of Ashworth in stream-of-consciousness fashion, tracking the thrills, disappointments, and non-starters of a year spent newly single and on the road. In many ways, though, they were the culmination of decades of hard work. After studying piano as a child, she picked up the French horn in middle school, and has been playing music pretty much every day since - first as a long-time conservatory kid with her sights on a career as a classical French horn player, and later as an elementary school music teacher, running around a classroom, making up songs and dances, and directing rag-tag orchestras full of glockenspiels and bongos. "If you can keep like 30 kids with tambourines entertained, [doing it for] a room full of drunk adults at a rock show is nothing," she says.

Just like her notoriously irreverent stage banter, Ashworth notes that her relationship to music, and to playing instruments, "comes from a place of love and playfulness and joy" - and it's something you can hear at every moment of SASAMI. But if SASAMI tells a story, it's one about the surprising ways that one's relationships - with lovers, with friends, with oneself - can shift in a single year.

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