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Elana Sasson
Elana Sasson is a vocalist, composer, and bandleader creating music at the intersection of Kurdish and Persian traditions, contemporary jazz, and Mediterranean folkloric influences. She explores themes of identity and duality: weaving emotive modal melodies, intricate harmonic textures, and diverse instrumentation to dialogue between tradition and modernity.
Shaped by years of training with master musicians from Iran and Kurdistan and studies at the Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Elana’s clear voice reflects a fusion of rich tradition and personal expression. Her music has been celebrated with nods from global press such as Songlines Magazine, who described her voice as “an arrestingly beautiful focus” and gave a 4 star review to the album ‘Golestan’
In Between
By Elana Sasson
Label: PKMusik
Released: 2025
Track listing: Akh Leil; Bahari Digar; Ay Ke Buena; Prelude to Nerges; Nerges; Elaneven; In Between; Laye Laye; Hevi.
Elana Sasson: In Between
by Katchie Cartwright
Elana Sasson's work is singularly intersectional and intercultural, by heritage, training and aesthetic preference. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she was naturally steeped in American music of various sorts and learned fundamentals of Western classical music in school. At home, though, especially with her grandfather and through years of private lessons with ...
Elaneven
Album: In Between
By Elana Sasson
Label: PKMusik
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:06
Panjareh
Album: Panjareh
By Santiago Bertel Puyo
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Duration: 03:29
