NIKOLA LUTZ

cd zek

zek [зек - Russian convict] is a concert series that has been produced by Nikola Lutz in Stuttgart between May 2024 and April 2025. The series commemorates the fate of Masha Kalesnikava, Maxim Znak and other political prisoners. Musical reflections of texts written in prison form a thread from prisoners to freedom, self-determined communication and survival. zek actively stands in the way of forgetting and nourishes the public resonance space of memory, which can be their only possible protection. The cd zek publishes music which has been created as zek #3 in November 2024 by German-Chilean Duo YonX collaborating with Lukax Santana (Chile).

César Bernal - double bass, prepared double bass, radio
Nikola Lutz - saxophone, saxophone fragments, electronics, voice
Lukax Santana - percussion, sound objects

Nikola Lutz - Condensed Milk

Condensed Milk is a bilingual conceptual improvisation (EN / RU), in which the short story of the same name by Maxim Znak is set to music. Znak's short story is part of his work "Zekameron / Зекамерон", which in short scenes gives insights into the life of prisoners in Belarus. The trio is interpreting the story improvising with text samples and instruments.

With kind permission of the publishers vremja and Scotland Street Press
English translation by Jim and Ella Dingley

Lukax Santana - En Cumpleaños de Kraka

Lukax Santana offers a vision of daily life in prison during his time as a political prisoner during the Chilean military dictatorship. Santana's biographical testimony has a literary force capable of transforming the lived experience. Through his performative narrative, he opens a window to an inner world marked by political imprisonment and makes accessible to us a hermetic world in this fragment of his biography.

César Bernal - Cúal Sol

A piece for recumbent double bass, two radios, objects and text.The work is inspired by “Crumbs”, a text found in the book The Zekameron by Maxim Znak. The snail is the hope in the confinement, to tune in with the light.This being is a meeting point with a song of hope that takes me to childhood, a song that all Chilean children sing when in autumn and winter, the snails reign our environments, tuning stories of a common memory of a territory.In Kraka's BirthdayLukax Santana offers a vision of daily life in prison during his time as a political prisoner during the Chilean military dictatorship. Santana's biographical testimony has a literary force capable of transforming the lived experience. Through his performative narrative, he opens a window to an inner world marked by political imprisonment and makes accessible to us a hermetic world in this fragment of his biography.

YonX and Lukax Santana - Camino Hacia la Libertad

Improvisation is a path to freedom. Subtle textures arise from an exploration of sound based on deep listening to every moment. The artistic practice of free music-making is committed only to inner truth. It provides an space of resonance for expression, allowing it to unfold eloquently.

Cover image by Lukax Santana
Artwork by Nikola Lutz
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nikola Lutz 2024

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