Place Where I Go/Kapi Ngalyananni [7"]

Keanu Nelson - Place Where I Go/Kapi Ngalyananni [7"]

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. A1. Place Where I Go B1. Kapi Ngalyananni