Aliya Ultan's Looks Far Woman Tour ft Georges Mefleh 

May 13-31 2026

Cellist and composer Aliya Ultan announces Looks Far Woman, a new solo album out June 26 on Kou Records and 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: Looks Far Woman, a seer who moves between worlds carrying the medicine of patience, prophecy, and transmutation. Inspired in part by the story of the same name from Jamie Sams' The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers, Your Sacred Path to Discovering the Gifts, Talents, and Abilities of the Feminine Through the Ancient Teachings of the Sisterhood.

Structured as a six-part song cycle — Wind Song, Road Song, Mountain Song, Sky Song, Seed Song, and Heart Song — the album unfolds as an enduring, trance inducing passage through elemental states, inward focus, and embodied listening. Across the record, Ultan approaches the cello as a voice capable of inhabiting multiple emotional 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 shift and reorganize themselves..

In May of 2026 Aliya and violist-wordsmith Georges Mefleh will perform selections from Looks Far Woman across the States and Canada in exclusively artist-run spaces including venues, community centers, food forests, and schools. 

May 13 - Brooklyn, NY

May 14 - Baltimore, MD

May 15 - Richmond, VA

May 16 - Durham, NC

May 17 - Atlanta, GA

May 19 - New Orleans, LA

May 20 - Nashville, TN

May 21 - Knoxville, TN

May 22 - Louisville, KY

May 23 - Cincinnati, OH (Ashland, OR)

May 24 - Chicago, IL (Nevada City, CA)

May 25 - Chicago, IL (San Francisco, CA)

May 26 - Detroit, MI

May 27 - Cleveland, OH

May 28 - Toronto, CAN

May 29 - Montreal, CAN

May 30 - Kingston, NY

May 31 - Brooklyn, NY