Aliya Ultan: Looks Far Woman - VINYL LP

Aliya Ultan: Looks Far Woman - VINYL LP

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Preorder Release Date: 06/26/2026
Title:

Looks Far Woman

Artist:

Aliya Ultan

Label:

Kou Records

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

850077743177

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-06-26

Number of Discs:

1

On Looks Far Woman, cellist and composer Aliya Ultan creates a work shaped by restlessness, burnout, and the slow reassembly of the self. The album is organized as a six-part song cycle - Wind S ong, Road S ong, Mountain S ong, S ky S ong, S eed S ong, and Heart S ong - each functioning less as a discrete composition than as a threshold state. Together, they form a gradual movement through elemental forces, inward attention, and embodied listening. The album takes it's name from a guiding figure in Ultan's internal mythology: a seer and protector who moves between worlds, carrying the medicine of prophecy, patience, and repair. Inspired by the Looks Far Woman story in Jamie Sams' The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers, the figure shapes the album's conceptual and emotional arc. Recorded at a moment when Ultan was physicallydepleted from years of touring, teaching, and professional musical labor, the sessions embraced exhaustion as a point of access rather than an obstacle. Working within a hypnagogic state - the fragile interval between wakefulness and sleep - Ultan allowed dream imagery, sensation, and memory to shape the music's pacing and form. Recorded, mixed, and produced by Randall Dunn, Looks Far Woman unfolds as a continuous ritual space rather than a collection of songs. It asks the listener to slow down, release linear expectation, and travel without a fixed destination - offering sound as a means of return to the body, to rest, and to what has been patiently gathered back together.

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