Music
Elana Low
“While an artist like Elana Low, with her old droning instruments and passion for paganism, can seem to belong in a niche, I'm fairly convinced there is a nearly universal appeal to what she does, with its direct line to the very heartbeat of music itself. You only need to hear her to believe.”
Elana Low is a dark folk composer based in New York City with a heavy harmonium and a slightly lighter heart. With a songbird’s voice, haunting lyrics, and melodies at once arcane and modern, she’ll lead you through the veil and back again. “While there are inherent elements of ritual in going to see live music, the songs of Elana Low connect to a much deeper strand of power that resides in the most ancient parts of music's DNA.” (Jeremy Shatan, An Earful). Her performance style has been described as having “a trance effect on the audience, inviting comparisons to Nico, Florence Welch, and Joni Mitchell on steroids" (Tony Sokol, Den of Geek). Recently she was profiled in Witchology Magazine.
In her songwriting, she finds “a fascinating intersection between folk songs of long ago and the immediacy of text threads between friends and lovers,” making it easy to be “mesmerized by her harmonium and her honeyed, vibrato-free voice”. (Jeremy Shatan, An Earful).
Elana’s music has been featured on BBC Introducing. She has performed at nearly every indie music venue in New York City as well as at large virtual festivals, including Witches Fest, New York’s 2019 Witches’ Halloween Ball, Left Bank Magazine’s International Women’s Day Festival and Voter Registration Day Telethons, Bryant Park’s Accordians Around the World Festival, Porchstomp on Governor’s Island, and the Ninefold Festival. Upcoming performances include a release show on June 25th for her forthcoming EP and the 2023 Ninefold Festival in September. Subscribe to her newsletter for the most up-to-date show calendar and to learn about new performances first.
Low’s newest album, PETRIXORA is out now. Her new single, “Goldest Hour,” premiered on BBC Introducing in 2023 as well. Her debut EP LOAM (2019) and single “Wolf Country” (2020) are out now on iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp. Her song “Bloom” can also be found on Volume III of the Grammy-nominated series A New Age for New Age. Additional recording projects include vocals, harmonium, and hurdy gurdy for Terror at Space Camp and Liminal Paths by JoAnna Farrer.
“You can call it folk, but this ain’t Americana.” —Matthew Gilliam, Eastern Soundboard
