AVALANCHE KAITO

(Burkina Faso / Belgium)
  • Lakha Khan
Assets
  • .: PR / RIDERS
  • Touring: Avalanche Kaito is based in Belgium
  • Travelling crew: 4-5 persons

Afro Post Punk

“Freaked, juddering electronic punk..” The Wire

Ancestral Griot Expression with Post Punk Attitude

The best of avant-rock collide with griot traditions from Burkina Faso, with a mesmerizing blend of trance-inducing rhythms, scratchy noise guitar, electronic collages, griot vocals and traditional African instruments.

Burkinabe singer Kaito Winse, the guardian of the ancestral griot tradition, rubs shoulders with the multiform approaches of drummer and “pure dataïst” Benjamin Chaval and anarcho-guitarist Nico Gitto in an explosive combination..

Avalanche Kaito's first concert was in 2021, and since then the band performed at Eurosonic, Resonator Festival, Roskilde Festival, KEXP .

In 2022, the band released their first EP, Dabalomuni, followed by a homonymous album, both on Glitterbeat.

Their new album Talitakum (Glitterbeat, April 2024), is deeper and more sonically varied, revealing an energy and spiritual weight that has undoubtedly emerged from the group's incessant touring. The live shows are indeed revelatory, twisting and turning with an unexpected intensity and collectiveness. It is a arresting, shapeshifting sound that spins freely from ancient griot traditions to full-throttle thrash (with many stops in between).

Polyrhythmic futurism, raw epiphanies, Burkinabe parables. A rattling ritual of ecstatic noise.

    LINEUP:
    Group Size: 3 Artists + 1 sound engineer
  • Kaito Winse : vocals, tama, bow, peul flute/li>
  • Nico Gitto: guitar
  • Benjamin Chaval: drums, pure data, electronics, production

VIDEOS

Live at KEXP

Full Performance - KEXP and ESNS present Avalanche Kaito performing live at Vera in Groningen, NL, during Eurosonic 2023. Recorded January 18, 2022.

Douaga (Live on KEXP)

Live

Dabalomuni (Live on KEXP)

Live

Dabalomuni

Live

Toulele

Les repas du cobra

Live on KEXP

Le repas du cobra

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