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Fire In Heaven (Antic Clay Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult) now on Bandcamp

Previously unreleased track from The Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult “Mystagogue” sessions.

Video: youtu.be/YMLcOla1pDo

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FIRE IN HEAVEN by ANTIC CLAY

There’s a fire in heaven
Summer in your soul
Holy days of majesty
Bestowed upon this fool

Arrive upon that shoreless sea
Breathe and be reborn
Woven that fragile tapestry
Lovely, fearful as a storm

A glimpse of unknown workings
And one uncounted star
Lit upon the waking world
Selah, selah, selah

The mourning moon should take a turn
And sing about the sun
Things redeemed and unredeemed
Days of ending have begun

I don’t see it, I believe it
In my unconscious choice
There’s a fire in heaven
A Christmas in your voice

Your heart just like a hummingbird
A love that was foretold
Can’t chronicle this miracle
Till winter wings will unfold

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released August 7, 2022
Words and music by Michael Bradley
Copyright ©2007 FurnaceSongs (ASCAP)

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This World is Mired in Lightless Fires (Antic Clay Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult) now on Bandcamp

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A deep cut from the double CD “Mystagogue” by The Sweet Meat Love and Holy Cult.
Video link: youtu.be/AabwUrubhx8
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This World is Mired in Lightless Fires by Antic Clay

This world is mired in lightless fires
and they all conspire to be one with you.

The holy rain falls slow, sustained
each drop takes pains to be one with you.

The coiling sun could come undone
because its serpents want to be one with you.

The maroon-rimmed moon sings blue cocoons
which bleed and bloom to be one with you.

The veins that spiral, surge and twine
emerge combined, to be one with you.

In mountain time, when all beasts are blind
you lie supine for all to view.

Copyright ©2013 FurnaceSongs (ASCAP)
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released August 6, 2022
Words and music by Michael Bradley
except: Upright bass by Laine Pierce
Backing vocals by Robin Hensley Pierce
Hammer dulcimer by…?
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Michael Bradley Live Tonight in Orlando

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ANTIC CLAY reemerges FULL BAND LIVE JULY 2

ANTIC CLAY reemerges FULL BAND LIVE JULY 2

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Last Year’s Man

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ELIJAH by Antic Clay (MB solo acoustic)

When Broom of Fire is completed this year, this song will be included.

Elijah

Well I woke up this morning, clear as a bell I believe I was dreaming at the edge of a wishing well I was casting a line but some were casting spells Hocked down a black spittoon to pit you against yourself Y’all sing along got a song for you children in hell Some ye hung among fork a tongue since they learn how to tell A truer word through a cloak aint never been spoken Crows joke and peck at your scaffold and laugh while you’re choking Elijah! Elijah! The child says to me you know this way leads to dust it’s my destiny to say to you it must It behooves you friend to know why the wind is blowing Tonight in the light lies all idea of knowing Elijah! Elijah! Woe unto him who been workin in the dark And hearken to the beat of a beast with a certain mark These crows did depose me down in the mud While a mosquito rose and showed me mine own blood Elijah! Elijah! Well doesn’t nobody out there care I can barely bear it The meek’ll wonder what it’s worth, what they inherit It’s a mystery built in the dust of the tome on the shelf It’s like history repeating itself It’s like history repeating itself

Music and lyrics by Michael Bradley Copyright ©2022 FurnaceSongs (ASCAP)

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Antic Clay Solo Acoustic at Porchfest 2021

Antic Clay Solo Acoustic at Porchfest 2021

Antic Clay (myself) solo acoustic from 1 to 2 p.m. at 136 Ansley Street, Saturday, October 9th. Will I wear a mask? No.

Here’s the tentative set:

ELIJAH

THEATER IN A CROWDED FIRE

ALL RISE

LANDLOCKED BLUES

IT GOES DOWN SO EASY

SULPHUR

DIAMOND IN THE DARK

IF WISHES WERE HORSES

STANDARD IS POOR

MARIE (Townes Van Zandt)

GONE LONG AGO

GOOD TIMES AROUND THE BEND

LOVE LETTER (Nick Cave)

COHEN?

I’m getting more comfortable/confident with originals, in the sense that I don’t so much care about catering to an audience. Particularly events such as Porchfest, which are full of young families, children frolicking; it’s tempting to simply play tunes that make people happy.  So I’ve wrestled with bringing heavier originals to these settings. But not today. I feel compelled to blast a voice through a yuppified neighborhood. We shall see…

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Marie on the Porch, October 2, 2020

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Live in Budapest December 8, 2019

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Antic Clay (Michael Bradley solo) dives back into wonderful Budapest in a solo show featuring songs from 2020’s forthcoming “Broom of Fire” as well as selections from “Hilarious Death Blues” and covers and who-knows general revelry. The goal is to take the whole band back to Europe in late 2020.

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Ashland Walk

A beautiful day in Ashland, Ohio.