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Artist
Keanu Nelson
12+ albums
singer-songwriterelectronicvocalexperimentalaboriginal
about
Keanu Nelson is a young aboriginal Australian artist from the remote but artistically rich community of Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs. He paints in the Western Desert movement style, and, on his album Wilurarrakutu, sings poems from his notebook over minimalist DIY Casio beats programmed by Yuta Matsumura. Keanu wrote these songs as private poems about family, home, and loss. He was finally inspired to sing them, make them public and loudly heard, after meeting Matsumura at the Papunya Tjupi Arts Centre. Inspired by the strong local gospel scene and reggae beats passed around the community via USB sticks, they created eight haunting, seering, lonely tracks, somehow familiar yet totally new, sung in both Papunya Luritja and English. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
