tellKujira — La lucha es un poema colectivo

tellKujira’s music moves between contemporary, electronics, art rock, and free jazz, and is based on improvisation sessions. This approach establishes a fluid musical path that is open to contamination and moves towards abstract soundscapes, ambient, polyrhythm, and industrial timbres. A diverse combination that is not afraid to dismantle any language.

Although the band had a distinct character from the start, its music evolved swiftly. During the study sessions, the themes explored were deconstruction and fragmentation, while the live performances gradually evolved into moments of total absorption, increasingly serving as a site of deliberate recomposition. This effort eventually led tellKujira to a Fragmentarium, a tool for gathering and rearranging pieces based on an instruction code that generates an unlimited palette of possibilities. This strategy allows them a lot of freedom while keeping the composition rigour.

The band performed at Moers Festival (D), Area Sismica (I), Ground Music Festival (I), Suedtirol Jazz Festival (I), Umbria Jazz (I), Curva Minore Festival (I), Soglie Festival (I), Torino Jazz Festival (I), Centro D’arte, Novara Jazz, Porgy and Bess (A), Oto Cafe (GB), Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024 (OFF), Interpenetration (A), IRCAM (F), Flux springtime (I), s(nodi) (I), Soundscape Festival (i) Future Festival (P).

The music of La lucha es un poema colectivo was conceived and composed during a long artistic residency at IRCAM in Paris in November 2023 and will be released by Superpang.

‘In November 2023, we were in residence in Paris when we found ourselves in the midst of protests and strikes by workers at the Centre Georges Pompidou. They were demanding the respect of their rights.E ntering that place as outsiders, making art while hundreds of people outside risked losing their jobs, was disorienting.

This is the starting point for the title of this album, evocative yet at the same time tangible. A phrase, as often happens, borrowed from those who had, in turn, borrowed it before us, words that are not and cannot be only ours. Words too heavy to be slaves to context or syntax, yet words that resonate within us, move us, and open rifts in our history as a group. A strange plunge, strange despite the fact that the premises were clear from the start, with well-defined lines of a unified design. And if we ask ourselves, looking around, not so much what but rather with whom we would like to share it, we imagine the music of this album within that groove, in that intangible bond that unites a collective of people who, upon reading this sentence written on a wall, in a street, pause for a moment, slow down, rest their gaze, and know they are still alive.”