{"product_id":"aliya-ultan-looks-far-woman","title":"Aliya Ultan - Looks Far Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eCellist 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStructured 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 reorganize themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooks Far Woman was recorded during a period of depletion after years of touring, teaching, and sustaining the demands of professional musical life. Rather than resisting this state, the sessions embraced exhaustion as a point of access. \"I called-in before our first session asking to postpone before realizing this was exactly the state I needed to be in to access what some might call the hypnogenic state — a transitional stage found between wakefulness and sleep where worlds intersect,\" Aliya recalls. The story of Looks Far Woman became her guide. \"I channeled the power of restfulness and patience. I was going there too, to locate pieces of myself that were missing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded with Dunn in a studio environment that inspires deep spiritual trajectories, the album unfolds as a continuous ritual rather than a conventional set of songs. Sounds appear, dissolve, and return in altered forms, encouraging the listener to release linear expectation.\u003cbr\u003eThe album's visual world continues Kou's commitment to artist-driven collaborations. The cover features an original hand drawing by Caroline Harrison, while Aliya's portrait on the reverse was created by science-fiction illustrator Noirmatic, pairing earthly mythic imagery with an interplanetary psychedelic visual language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross its arc, Looks Far Woman offers sound as a form of repair. As Aliya describes the work: \"It is an ongoing process that requires one to drop the ego and travel without knowing your destination.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cargo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63823779103097,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0051\/1380\/6921\/files\/AliyaUltan-LooksFarWoman.jpg?v=1782232553","url":"https:\/\/worldofechomusic.com\/products\/aliya-ultan-looks-far-woman","provider":"World Of Echo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}