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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’

Article: Year in Review

Katchie Cartwright's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Katchie Cartwright
January 3, 2026

These are a few of my favorite things from 2025: songs of water and womb; music of light, shadow and illusion; strange and familiar tongues; beginnings and golden days; suns, moons and mysterious particles; liminality and light; equipoise, gratitude and pure aesthetic pleasure. Many thanks to the dedicated musicians who offered deep and joyful music in ...

Album

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.

Article: Album Review

Elana Sasson: In Between

Read "In Between" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
October 19, 2025

Elana Sasson's work is singularly intercultural and cosmopolitan, 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 ...