Ultan, Aliya: Looks Far Woman (Vinyl LP)

Cellist and composer Aliya Ultan announces Looks Far Woman, a new solo album out June 26 on Kou Records, recorded, mixed, and produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Jóhann Jóhannsson). The album takes its name from a guiding figure in Aliya's personal mythology — a seer who moves between worlds carrying the medicine of patience, prophecy, and transmutation — drawn in part from Jamie Sams' The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers.

Structured as a six-part song cycle — Wind Song, Road Song, Mountain Song, Sky Song, Seed Song, and Heart Song — the album unfolds as a trance-inducing passage through elemental states and embodied listening. Ultan approaches the cello as a voice capable of inhabiting multiple registers at once: orchestral and raw, devotional and restless. The pieces function less as discrete compositions than as threshold spaces, where rhythm, texture, and spectral harmonies gradually reorganise themselves.

Black vinyl version.

1. Road Song
2. Wind Song
3. Mountain Song
4. Sky Song
5. Seed Song
6. Heart Song