In the run-up to their debut album ‘Erratic Erosion’ (which came out the 11th of April), Nite Kite released a live recording of “inktvis.” This tune was live tracked in a beautiful Brussels ‘Maison de maître”, the song showcases how Nite Kite embraced the spontaneous interplay – an important characteristic of the upcoming album – all while maintaining a mystical organic and electronic sound. A soundtrack to a roadtrip through the desert, ending up at your favourite underground electronic festival.
Note from Dieter: “I love how the old living room setting is contrasting the raw sound of the track but at the same time confirming the underlying warm nostalgia of the music.”
Musicians (Video):
Dieter Boels – Piano / Synths
Emma Bierens – Double bass
Léo Gaucher – Drum computer
Production (Video):
Recording/mixing – Dieter Boels
Video – Tim Winters & Tim Eggermont
Special thanks to MAS Fiocco Schaerbeek for the location
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Brussels-based artist Nite Kite presents Erratic Erosion, the first full-length album and a refreshing new chapter in his musical journey. Moving beyond the solo-recorded and produced EPs of the past, this record is a collective effort, shaped by more than ten people. Erratic Erosion will be released on April 11, 2025, on vinyl and all streaming platforms.
After working in solitude on his first two EP’s and music in general, Nite Kite felt the strong necessity of playing music with others. Alongside the weekly electronic explorations that led to the previous EP ‘En Plein Air’, jazz jams were organised as well. From those jams, a fusional friendship emerged, and the idea of involving these friends with Nite Kite rose.
The Nite Kite Collective
Performing his signature melancholic yet hopeful compositions with double bassist Emma Bierens, drummer Joannes Van Duffel, and live electronic artist Léo Gaucher created an infectious interplay—one that quickly became integral to the creative process. To deepen the involvement and allow everyone to move in their own creative way the new musicians were invited to add their personal input, strongly diversifying the introspective universe of Nite Kite. The collaborative aspect was so enriching, that he also challenged himself to co-write songs with close friends Ruben Lefever (Float Fall), Niels Boutsen (Stoomboot), singer Ruth Kennivé and Hungarian saxophone/bansuri player István Fazakas.
The imperfect live-tracking
Through all this playing and writing together, Nite Kite fell in love with the playful and unexpected twists. Somehow the beautiful human imperfections have disappeared from a lot of music due to a powerful production process, and maybe also because of a high level of schooling in musical performance. Determined to preserve some of the imperfections connected with our human nature, Nite Kite decided to live-track the songs on the album, a rather unusual and risky choice within the cross-over electronic genre. To accentuate the close friendship within the music, they went for a recording residence in a studio in nature. And the choice seemed right: the many contributors to the album resulted in diverse songs, but they all beautifully came together by the charming imperfect, yet coherent live-tracked recording.
Erratic Erosion comes alive through these new approaches, defining a new refreshing chapter for Nite Kite. The album will surprise listeners by taking them on a journey from a dark jazz bar with a burnt out trumpet player (Innuendo) to the highlands of Afghanistan with a bansuri flute player (Doelloos), then again to a club night in Berlin (Our Ornery Nature) and even to the Flemish clay with a surprising Belgian blues (Laat me achter), but always built around Nite Kites’s intimate piano and synthesizer performance and gloomy but reassuring compositions.
