Aliya Ultan- Looks Far Woman (PREORDER)
On Looks Far Woman, cellist and composer Aliya Ultan creates a work shaped byrestlessness, burnout, and the slow reassembly of the self. The album isorganized 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 discretecomposition than as a threshold state. Together, they form a gradual movementthrough elemental forces, inward attention, and embodied listening.The album takes it's name from a guiding figure in Ultan's internal mythology: aseer and protector who moves between worlds, carrying the medicine ofprophecy, patience, and repair. Inspired by the Looks Far Woman story in JamieSams' The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers, the figure shapes the album'sconceptual and emotional arc. Recorded at a moment when Ultan was physicallydepleted from years of touring, teaching, and professional musical labor, thesessions embraced exhaustion as a point of access rather than an obstacle.Working within a hypnagogic state - the fragile interval between wakefulnessand sleep - Ultan allowed dream imagery, sensation, and memory to shape themusic's pacing and form.Recorded, mixed, and produced by Randall Dunn, Looks Far Woman unfolds as acontinuous ritual space rather than a collection of songs. It asks the listener toslow 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 beenpatiently gathered back together.
Tracklist:
- Road Song
- Wind Song
- Mountain Song
- Sky Song
- Seed Song
- Heart Song
UPC > 850077743177
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Kou Records
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Aliya Ultan- Looks Far Woman (PREORDER)
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Release Date: 06.26.2026
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On Looks Far Woman, cellist and composer Aliya Ultan creates a work shaped byrestlessness, burnout, and the slow reassembly of the self. The album isorganized 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 discretecomposition than as a threshold state. Together, they form a gradual movementthrough elemental forces, inward attention, and embodied listening.The album takes it's name from a guiding figure in Ultan's internal mythology: aseer and protector who moves between worlds, carrying the medicine ofprophecy, patience, and repair. Inspired by the Looks Far Woman story in JamieSams' The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers, the figure shapes the album'sconceptual and emotional arc. Recorded at a moment when Ultan was physicallydepleted from years of touring, teaching, and professional musical labor, thesessions embraced exhaustion as a point of access rather than an obstacle.Working within a hypnagogic state - the fragile interval between wakefulnessand sleep - Ultan allowed dream imagery, sensation, and memory to shape themusic's pacing and form.Recorded, mixed, and produced by Randall Dunn, Looks Far Woman unfolds as acontinuous ritual space rather than a collection of songs. It asks the listener toslow 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 beenpatiently gathered back together.
Tracklist:
- Road Song
- Wind Song
- Mountain Song
- Sky Song
- Seed Song
- Heart Song
UPC > 850077743177
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Kou Records
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.