Sasami - Squeeze - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sasami (aka Sasami Ashworth) has been making music in the Los Angeles area, in almost every way you can, for the last decade. From playing French horn in orchestras and studios and playing keys, bass, and guitar in local rock bands (Cherry Glazerr, Dirt Dress), to contributing vocals/string/horn arrangements to studio albums (Curtis Harding, Wild Nothing, Hand Habits) and producing on tracks for other respected artists (Soko), she has gained a reputation as an all-around musical badass. Sasami's self-titled debut album is playful, heartfelt and personal, chronicling the surprising ways that relationships - with lovers, with friends, with oneself - can shift in a single year. Sasami says, Inch'Not the Time' and 'Callous' are basically entries in the diary that is my first record of songs. Maybe 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.Inch Album Tracks 1. I Was a Window (Feat. Dustin Payseur) 2. Not the Time 3. Morning Comes 4. Free (Feat. Devendra Banhart) 5. Pacify My Heart 6. At Hollywood 7. Jealousy 8. Callous 9. Adult Contemporary (Feat. Soko) 10. Turned Out I Was Everyone

Recent years brought about for Julia Holter an existential focus on human connection, amid the staggering change that came with the death of loved ones (including her young nephew, to whom the album is dedicated) and the birth of her daughter. On Something in the Room She Moves, Holter vividly processes the complexity, gravity, and awe of this confluence of experience. She calls the music Inchsensual,Inch Inchflowing,Inch and InchnocturnalInch-a testament to how love, with all of it's challenges, Inchreroutes neural pathways.Inch The cover art by Holter's childhood friend, artist Christina Quarles, highlights the multiplicity of intimate connection are the figures embracing or in battle? The title Something in the Room She Moves came to Holter spontaneously as she was naming the Logic project file for an early demo. Coincidentally, a few months later, she found herself mesmerized by the eight-hour cinéma-vérité Beatles documentary Get Back in 2021. Her titular phrase flips the gaze of the Beatles lyrics (InchSomething in the way she moves...Inch); the woman is no longer passively observed, but actively augmenting space. Holter has loved the Beatles since childhood, but sees the title less as a tribute than as a semi-surreal bit of automatic writing from her subconscious. After a string of dream pop albums that established her searching voice in independent music-from 2012 breakthrough Ekstasis to Loud City Song and Have You in My Wilderness-Holter released the thrillingly experimental Aviary in 2018. Since then, she has scored films like Never Rarely Sometimes Always, performed a commissioned live score for The Passion of Joan of Arc with the Chorus of Opera North, and collaborated with her partner, Tashi Wada, who plays on her new album. Something in the Room She Moves is a remarkable progression in Holter's oeuvre, synthesizing her free, improvisatory energy with h

Two Sasami's exist in harmony. First is Sasami Ashworth, the conservatory-trained classical French horn player, producer, and composer-an artist with a studious approach to craft. And then there is all-caps SASAMI, the fearless performer and protagonist of her three increasingly audacious albums. For Blood On the Silver Screen, these two sides fused for her most epic and realized music to date the all-out Sasami pop record.After establishing herself with the poised melancholia of her eponymous 2019 debut, Sasami embraced volume and control on 2022's Squeeze-touring with a metal band-but her goal on Blood On the Silver Screen was to speak her truth with conviction by singing. 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, S*x, power, and embodiment. InchPop music is like fuel,Inch Sasami says. InchIt's just invigorating.InchAcross Blood On the Silver Screen, Sasami's lyrics narrate the ecstasies and agonies of being Incha modern lover,Inch she says-writing about Inchbig city dating endeavorsInch even as she found herself relocating, on a whim, from Los Angeles to rural Northern California. The anthemic InchFor the WeekendInch explores Inchmodern intimacy, where you can get deep without the relationship being defined,Inch while the irrepressible InchJust Be FriendsInch bottles the dizzying longing that can overtake those in-betweens.InchI wanted to go all out with this album,Inch Sasami continues. InchI wanted to, in my tenderness and emotionality, have the bravery to undertake something as epic as making a pop record about love. I hope it makes people feel empowered and embodied, too. It's important to not box yourself in.Inch Album Tracks 1. Slugger 2. Just Be Friends 3. I'll Be Gone 4. Love Makes You Do Crazy Things 5. In Love with a M