“Hays' songs are direct, impassioned, austere, haunting, and hopeful. They combine the trance-induced, improvised, vocal expansions often found in devotional hymns of the world, with the structure and lyrical clarity of a Jazz Age ballad. His guitar work draws equally from folk traditions and the avant-garde. ”

— Operniot Loth, Explain! Vol. IX

Pythias Braswell is music and words discovered and cultivated by Michael C. Hays. This material has been sorted from the wreckage of many voyages into the imposing but fertile silences of human consciousness. Presented here are some of the more useful findings. 

 

 

TOOK TOO LONG TO OPEN ONE TOO MANY DOORS | NOW I'M JUST A FOOL WITHOUT A FIGHT | I WAS HOPING FOR SOME BEACON IN THE DARKNESS | BUT I ONLY FOUND THIS HIDDEN LIGHT

Thy Merciful Teeth

Pythias Braswell

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The long awaited mortality-counter-acting archive of minor suffering and major reverence in the flaming face of All. Recorded in Catskill, NY at Old Soul Studios!
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    One Battle 5:32
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    Little Bird 5:27
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    Will Forgiveness Find You 2:51
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    That Kind of Love 5:05
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    Black Mare 6:03
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    Rose in a Rose 3:33
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    Sophia 5:57
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    To Those Who Are Free 4:06
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"Why We Sing" at artichoke music

"i WILL BE YOUR FRIEND" at hudson hall

"ROSE IN A ROSE" at beverly lounge

"ONE BATTLE" at veteran's park

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Invisible Hand

Pythias Braswell

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A collection of movements almost entirely constructed from field recordings, including Irish trains, Gypsy brass bands, hyenas, chickens, illuminated poetry, and re-animated half- songs crawling from their shallow graves...
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    Zombie Kid 2:24
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