Feature Album – Keanu Nelson – Place Where I Go
8CCC Feature Album 26 April 2025
Luritja artist Keanu Nelson traces the afterglow of Wilurarrakutu with a two-track 7”, cut from the same home-studio haze with producer Yuta Matsumura. The pair continue their singular weave of community-rooted storytelling and elemental electronics, shaped with the gear at hand.Hints of YouTube hip-hop and emotionally charged piano ripple through ‘Place Where I Go’, a dubbed-out reflection on the daily realities of life in Papunya, Nelson’s desert home. ‘Kapi Ngalyananni’ finds Nelson singing in language, a mesmeric water song bridging the personal and ancestral, with elevating chords, clapsticks, and Matsumura’s parched melodica lines.These remote dispatches carry a vital new voice from the heart of the desert, where tradition and sonic experimentation delicately converge. Released April 25, 2025All lyrics and songs written by Keanu NelsonRecorded and produced in Warumpi by Yuta MatsumuraMastered by Mikey YoungPhotos by Yuta MatsumuraDesign by James Vinciguerra