A late-night, spoken word exploration from Canadian/GhanaianWorld Poetry Slam champ Ian Keteku. It's not exactly in the holiday spirit (Happy Halloween!), but "Nightmares" still features enough morbid references, Mobutu portraits and black sheep in Mozambique talk to elicit some pretty weird vibes. The track can be found on Keteku's debut LP Lessons From Planet Earth (Re-Evolution) out now via Nocturne Records.
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