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Kaleita (pronounced kuh-LEE-tuh) is the instrumental project of London-based, Italian-born guitarist and composer Filippo Faustini. Blending post-rock atmosphere with cinematic scope, Kaleita explores the expressive edge of the electric guitar through immersive, slow-building compositions.
 

Alongside his work as a rock guitarist and producer with the London outfit Dead Writers—headlining his first festival in 2024—Faustini has developed a parallel path as a composer. His second Kaleita release, Digitale Purpurea, reached the finals of the 2025 Film Sync Awards, further establishing his cinematic voice.
 

Faustini discovered the mysterious power of music early on in his life, when he realised that making up little songs would give him a sense of grounding and comfort that came from inside himself. Building on this personal discovery, he dedicated his life to attaining a personal musical voice as a guitarist and composer, with the intent of sharing the self-regulating and self-discovering properties of music.
 

Live, Kaleita unfolds as a real-time guitar sound sculpture. Using standard and baritone electric guitars, Faustini builds pieces layer by layer through live looping and his own resonance techniques, revealing the architecture of the music as it forms. Each performance evolves differently, inviting the audience into an intimate, headphone-like listening space within a live setting.

All sounds originate from six strings, yet the result moves far beyond traditional guitar performance — refracting the instrument into something textural, immersive, and emotionally direct.