Ep. 8 | Tub Talks with Hayes Bradley: Musician

This week we squeeze into the bath with Hayes Bradley, known musically as B. Hayes, to discuss his new ambient record “1-9”, his journey into his musical career, and the intimate moments in between it all. Growing up in the Palisades in Los Angeles with his mother and three brothers, music has always had an influence on his life. Hayes is the first in his lineage to actually work in music. He shares how this career path has been a series of trial and error for him, pushing him to consistently take creative risks. He has always explored the edges of music scenes from warehouse and noise parties in Chicago, to Berlin, New York, LA undergrounds. This exploration has led him to discover some of the world's most interesting groups of people and places, experiences that shaped his view on music culture. While touring with his dance music project American Dance Ghosts, he continues to explore real, raw underground scenes in each city. Hayes explores many genres within music through different experiences. But the heart and source of it always comes back to his family. There is a strong sense of family connection woven throughout his process, if even subconsciously, which he shines a light on throughout his many stories of home life. They range from collaborating with his brothers for spontaneous punk collaborations over the holidays to recording his sounds at his mother's piano, and inspiration from his mother’s tape collection.

For his latest musical creation, B. Hayes dives into the world of ambient music with the release of “1-9”. As he tells us in the conversion, this style of music has always been a personal listening practice for him until very recently. He used his need to emote a recent breakup as the jumping-off point to experiment with this genre himself. Listening and playing his own ambient music in a crowd of strangers in the desert at Secular Sabbath last May was a first. Trying an array of other sensory experiences at the ambient soundscape during our Joshua Tree Acres retreat event, Hayes broke out of his comfort zone. This allowed for new layers of creativity to flow and open-mindedness to develop. Delving into the world of his process as a young up-and-coming artist on the scene, we hope you take a moment to listen to his full album after the bath. But first, we hope you enjoy our discussion with Hayes about his personal music journey through the years and how “1-9” was born. Stream the whole album “1-9” now on Spotify.

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