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Avalanche Kaito: the exhilarating combination of Burkina Faso born urban griot Kaito Winse and fellow experimentalists Belgian guitarist Nico Gitto and French drummer/producer Benjamin Chaval. This transnational avant-rock trio created waves with their visceral self-titled 2022 debut, bagging notable festival appearances (Supersonic, End of the Road), a KEXP session and much deserved critical and audience enthusiasm.

Their new album Talitakum, 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.

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Jeff Nuttall’s 1968 polemic, Bomb Culture, lauds Dadaist Tristan Tzara as a main inspiration for the (atomic) countercultures of the 1950s and 1960s. According to Nuttall, Tzara ripped up the mores of the art world to invoke a new “cosmic identity” where “all things are seen as the part of the whole of existence and the whole is expressed in every part”. Things could now appear “as matter in cosmic terms,” and work as a “wonderful, rather than useful entity.” Both these ideas of deconstruction and reevaluation into new cosmic matter, however wildly expressed by the hedonistic Nuttall, mirror the music of transnational avant-rock trio, Avalanche Kaito. Avalanche Kaito are “driven by the desire for something new,” and see their own energies “as a sh.......
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