Review: Avalanche Kaito @ The Full Moon & Attic Bar – epigram.org.uk

A musician wearing a tan jacket and cap plays a traditional drum and sings into two microphones on the darkly lit stage of Attic Bar.

By Benjamin Ladner, First Year Geography

Avalanche Kaito are described as ‘traditional West African music mixed with avant-garde noise rock.’ This was really a gig you’d have to have seen and heard with your own eyes and ears to comprehend exactly what that meant. The vocalist, Kaito Winse, starts off the set hiding in the depths of the crowd (aided by the long, narrow layout of the Full Moon) whilst chanting a Griot prayer into the mic. The other two members of the group (drums and guitar) then begin to form a soundbath of…