Keanu Nelson has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 14 November 2023. Keanu Nelson's music has been featured on 25 episodes.

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.