Supported by Glitterbeat, Avalanche Kaito was noticed from their first two concerts in Belgium in July 2021. It follows a real craze, which brings them to several countries during the following months. Tours are being planned all over Europe for 2023. Avalanche Kaito also performs repeatedly at showcase festivals: FME, MIL and Monkey Week in 2022, BISE and ESNS in 2023. All over the world, their performances have earned them excellent reviews in the press (see press review). The quality and originality of the project seems in many ways unique in the musical landscape, managing to combine in its purpose both a seductive power and a crazy experimental side. The trigger of this movement is indeed the homonymous album, released in June 2022, praised by the international press. In July 2022, Grammy commissioned Avalanche Kaito to make a live video that was broadcast on the networks of the prestigious institution.
ABOUT THE BAND Avalanche Kaito (Glitterbeat) could be described as “grrriot_punk_noise”. Burkinabe singer Kaito Winse - surveyor for some time of the Brussels underground scene and last born of a family of Burkinabe griots -, meets the drummer / pure dataist Benjamin Chaval and the anarcho_electric guitarist Nico Gitto. It’s a crazy universe between over-inhabited vocal declamations & without net and postmodern grooves. Kaito, the guardian of the ancestral griot tradition, rubs shoulders with the multiform approaches of Benjamin Chaval and Nico Gitto in an explosive combination. “They are as their name suggests, an act who strike unexpectedly. And they are sensational. Quite what they sound like is another thing. Someone mentions they are like Black Midi and I can certainly see the comparison has some weight on one level, the wild flitting between sounds and rhythms, picking and dropping them like a frenzied root through a sock drawer. Post post post everything, I suppose. But still, and something very much unlike Black Midi; an enervating wall of noise given a focus by the incredible presence of singer, the Burkina Faso griot, Kaito Winse, who is both a magnet for the crowd and a realtime interpreter for the music. The other two lads shake out multiple refractions from rock’s prism. Again, (and like Black Midi, sorry), I can see them playing to a million people over Europe without anyone really understanding why it’s so addictive. The best kind of buzz.” Richard Foster, Louder Than War
"We were blown away by Avalanche Kaito, an energetic Belgian post-punk/no wave trio, led by a griot from Burkina Faso, that will soon make its debut on the German Glitterbeat label. " - Dirk Steenhout, Knack - 1st October 2021
"Brussels-based Avalanche Kaito took the stage not long before midnight and emerged as the surprise of the festival. Their Dutch debut concert. Completely unknown to the audience. A singer-songwriter from Burkina Faso plus an insanely good guitar-and-drums duo from Belgium who provided a festival apotheosis with an overpowering dose of Afropunk. " - Peter Bruyn, Leids Dagblad - 27th September 2021
"They are as their name suggests, an act who strike unexpectedly. And they are sensational. Quite what they sound like is another thing. Someone mentions they are like Black Midi and I can certainly see the comparison has some weight on one level, the wild flitting between sounds and rhythms, picking and dropping them like a frenzied root through a sock drawer. Post post post everything, I suppose. But still, and something very much unlike Black Midi; an enervating wall of noise given a focus by the incredible presence of singer, the Burkina Faso griot, Kaito Winse, who is both a magnet for the crowd and a realtime interpreter for the music. The other two lads shake out multiple refractions from rock’s prism. Again, (and like Black Midi, sorry), I can see them playing to a million people over Europe without anyone really understanding why it’s so addictive. The best kind of buzz.” - Richard Foster, Louder Than War - 26th September 2021
“We lived some memorable concerts, in particular that of Avalanche Kaito which will remain for many one of the biggest slaps of this edition of Micro Festival. A devilish drumming, an angry guitar and a charismatic singer, Avalanche Kaito is a bit like if Black Midi had discovered some traditional African instruments. The ethno-noise trio literally set the stage on fire by creating a trance that was hard to resist and that will have left its mark on everyone. It's hard to believe that this was the group's second concert as the atmosphere was so electric.” - Renaud Verstraete, RTBF - 10th August 2021