Biography
Avalanche Kaito unites West African vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse with drummer Benjamin Chaval and guitarist Nico Gitto, two musicians drawn from Belgium’s experimental circles. Their partnership merges Winse’s roots in a Burkina Faso griot music family with intricate, high-speed live drumming, jagged grooves, and abstract electronic layering, first captured on the project’s self-titled 2022 debut and then pushed further on the more radical 2024 album Talitakum.
The group took shape in 2018 after Winse, then visiting Brussels, encountered the noise-punk duo Le jour du seigneur. That band’s drummer Chaval recruited guitarist Gitto, and the resulting trio began dismantling Winse’s pieces through spontaneous improvisation and the open-source program Pure Data. The approach yielded a volatile, explosive reframing of traditional West African elements that reached its most intense expression on the self-titled album, recorded in 2020 and issued two years afterward by Glitterbeat. Following a stretch of intensive touring, the musicians reconvened and, in 2024, delivered Talitakum, an outing that probes even deeper into experimental electronics, aggressive riffs, and layered polyrhythmic structures.
The group took shape in 2018 after Winse, then visiting Brussels, encountered the noise-punk duo Le jour du seigneur. That band’s drummer Chaval recruited guitarist Gitto, and the resulting trio began dismantling Winse’s pieces through spontaneous improvisation and the open-source program Pure Data. The approach yielded a volatile, explosive reframing of traditional West African elements that reached its most intense expression on the self-titled album, recorded in 2020 and issued two years afterward by Glitterbeat. Following a stretch of intensive touring, the musicians reconvened and, in 2024, delivered Talitakum, an outing that probes even deeper into experimental electronics, aggressive riffs, and layered polyrhythmic structures.
Albums
Singles
