Kevin Bronson on January 9th, 2019

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Fresh off a packed show at the Echo and preparing for a short European tour that starts next month, Sasami Ashworth — known as just Sasami — today announced that her debut album, “SASAMI,” would be out March 8 via Domino Records. (She also points out that the release coincides with International Women’s Day.)

With the news came the delightfully strange video for the experimental track “Jealousy,” directed by the artist and Kate Hollowell. Says Sasami: “The whole video was born out of inspiration from the scene ‘Bruce Vs Chocolate cake’ from the 1996 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda.’ I wanted it to be kind of like a filmed version of a weird play. I am a witch creature and my sidekick, Gobby, and I dance in our painted backdrop lair and plot mischief. Luckily our havoc bears liberating ends as the bewitched are released of their socially-expected, self-imposed obsessions and rituals. I wanted to make something grotesque and creepy and funny, of course.”

Mission accomplished.

||| Watch: The video for “Jealousy”

||| Live: She returns to the Echo for a show on April 3. Tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

||| Previously: Live at the Echo, Ears Wide Open