A.B. Original

A.B. Original
Origin Australia
Labels Golden Era
Bad Apples Music
Members Briggs
Trials

A.B. Original is an Australian hip hop duo made up of Briggs and Trials. A.B. Original stands for Always Black, Original. Both members are Indigenous Australians; Briggs is a Yorta Yorta man and Trials is Ngarrindjeri.[1] Their music is overtly political and has been described as "angry, polemical, brutally frank and meant to inspire a response, good or bad".[2]

A.B. Original's first release was the single "January 26" (featuring Dan Sultan), released in August 2016, which comments on the use of that date for Australia Day.[3] This was followed up by an album entitled Reclaim Australia in November.[1] The provocatively titled[2][4] album features many guests including Thelma Plum, G. Yunupingu and Archie Roach.[4] At the APRA Music Awards of 2018 the duo won Songwriter of the Year.[5]

Band members

Discography

Albums

  • Reclaim Australia (2016) - Golden Era[6][7] No. 10 AUS[8]

singles

  • "January 26" (2016)

References

  1. 1 2 Byron, Tim (25 November 2016), "A.B. Original: 'We wrote the hardest shit we could write, and it's being supported'", Sydney Morning Herald
  2. 1 2 Zuel, Bernard (27 November 2016), "A.B. Original album Reclaim Australia is a necessary shock to the system", Canberra Times
  3. ↑ Pat McGrath and Andy Burns, (26 January 2017), Band A.B. Original on their song January 26, 7.30, ABC Telelvision Retrieved 4 July 2017
  4. 1 2 Butler, Josh (16 November 2016), "'It's Shit Being A Black Man In Australia' -- A.B. Original Talk Racism, Reclaim Australia And Rap", The Huffington Post
  5. ↑ "Songwriter of the Year". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Stephen (26 November 2016). "Reviews: Simpson & Flemons, Hat Fitz & Cara, Bic Runga, AB Original". The Australian.
  7. ↑ Zuel, Bernard (25 November 2016). "Reviews: A.B. Original, Metallica, Chris Pickering, Necromantix, Hayley Bonar". The Age.
  8. ↑ "australian-charts.com - A.B. Original - Reclaim Australia". Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
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