THE ANCIENT BLOODS

The Ancient Bloods are an interchanging band that delivers music projects as part of Digi Youth Arts mentoring platform for Indigenous young people. With each project, The Ancient Bloods deliver a recorded work adding to an anthology that responds to political issues, cultural heritage and identity.

The current iteration of The Ancient Bloods is a part of the where we stand project and is made up of Nadia Morrison, Michaella Stubbs, Cormac Finn, Will Probert and Loki Liddle. Over the past year the team have been developing their new album under the close mentorship of DYA lead artist Luke Daniel Peacock.

The new album covers a diverse range of genres, stories and styles as each member of the band responds in their own unique way to their relationship with country and place. The members worked together closely to aid in the development of each others songs, resulting in a collaborative and connected body of work that unites their voices and delivers a powerful message.

The album was recorded at Plutonium Studios in Brisbane in June and features a host of mind-blowing original songs that explore the experience of being a young Indigenous person alive today. Bursting from fiery mouths and sharp tongues in the form of rap + R&B, smouldering through lyrical smoke in the form of alt-rock, calling out in protest + pride through songs of resistance, digging into the soul with emotive ballads of identity + healing, foraying powerfully even into the gristle of grunge, and presenting all in all a moving insight into the youngest generation of the one of the world’s oldest living cultures. Safe to say it is an album the band is restless to release…with the first single out in September, and full album later in the year.

The Ancient Bloods are ready to drop musical bombs and provide their answer to the questions being raised during these strange times.