Keanu Nelson - Wilurarrakutu
PREORDER - shipping on or around August 30, 2024
(Note: If you order this record alongside other items, your whole package will ship together on August 30. If you want the rest of your package to ship sooner, please make two separate orders).
Deeply moving Casio jams from central Australia…
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 this album, sings poems from his notebook over minimalist DIY Casio beats programmed by Yuta Matsumura.
We heard his debut album, released last year on the local Altered States label, and were blown away. We’re happy to work with Keanu to re-issue the record on a wider scale, hopefully bringing this vital music and unique voice to (slightly) more people.
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. Someone said it’s like Francis Bebey meets Suicide meets a slew of home-made Soundcloud artists, broadcasting from one of the most remote places on earth. A completely beautiful and original sonic work that should not be missed!!!!
CREDITS
All lyrics and songs written by Keanu Nelson
Produced by Yuta Matsumura
Recorded in Warumpi by Yuta Matsumura
Mastered by Mikey Young
Front cover photo by Paloma Pizarro
Front cover text by Keanu Nelson
Back cover image by Keanu Nelson
Altered States Tapes (AST-150) & Mississippi Records (MRI-211)
PREORDER - shipping on or around August 30, 2024
(Note: If you order this record alongside other items, your whole package will ship together on August 30. If you want the rest of your package to ship sooner, please make two separate orders).
Deeply moving Casio jams from central Australia…
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 this album, sings poems from his notebook over minimalist DIY Casio beats programmed by Yuta Matsumura.
We heard his debut album, released last year on the local Altered States label, and were blown away. We’re happy to work with Keanu to re-issue the record on a wider scale, hopefully bringing this vital music and unique voice to (slightly) more people.
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. Someone said it’s like Francis Bebey meets Suicide meets a slew of home-made Soundcloud artists, broadcasting from one of the most remote places on earth. A completely beautiful and original sonic work that should not be missed!!!!
CREDITS
All lyrics and songs written by Keanu Nelson
Produced by Yuta Matsumura
Recorded in Warumpi by Yuta Matsumura
Mastered by Mikey Young
Front cover photo by Paloma Pizarro
Front cover text by Keanu Nelson
Back cover image by Keanu Nelson
Altered States Tapes (AST-150) & Mississippi Records (MRI-211)
PREORDER - shipping on or around August 30, 2024
(Note: If you order this record alongside other items, your whole package will ship together on August 30. If you want the rest of your package to ship sooner, please make two separate orders).
Deeply moving Casio jams from central Australia…
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 this album, sings poems from his notebook over minimalist DIY Casio beats programmed by Yuta Matsumura.
We heard his debut album, released last year on the local Altered States label, and were blown away. We’re happy to work with Keanu to re-issue the record on a wider scale, hopefully bringing this vital music and unique voice to (slightly) more people.
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. Someone said it’s like Francis Bebey meets Suicide meets a slew of home-made Soundcloud artists, broadcasting from one of the most remote places on earth. A completely beautiful and original sonic work that should not be missed!!!!
CREDITS
All lyrics and songs written by Keanu Nelson
Produced by Yuta Matsumura
Recorded in Warumpi by Yuta Matsumura
Mastered by Mikey Young
Front cover photo by Paloma Pizarro
Front cover text by Keanu Nelson
Back cover image by Keanu Nelson
Altered States Tapes (AST-150) & Mississippi Records (MRI-211)
