Noxious Variations [Expanded & Remastered]

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Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop! Two white 5" recordable discs, duplicated and printed via the Imation D20, held securely inside a clear cast-polypropylene sleeve with a flap and a cloth membrane separating/cushioning the discs, bearing two hand-cut recycled cardstock inserts with a 4x4" sticker (printed by David Tagg) on the front and a custom white text sticker on the back. Ships securely inside a bubblemailer to keep your new sonic artifact dust and moisture-free.

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	1.	Tonnage 07:09
	2.	At Forest's Edge, Water Laps Over The Rocks 06:54
	3.	Bronze Museum 08:50
	4.	Crumbling Monochrome Towers 07:33
	5.	Silver Horns [Heard Over Green Hills] 07:59
	6.	Hallways 08:47
	7.	Rippling Beehive Crown 11:09
	8.	Oubliette 20:06
	9.	At Forest's Edge, Water Laps Over The Rocks [Coppice Halifax Transfiguration] 01:06:33

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Recorded in 2008, during the same sessions as the drone-triptych POROUS VARIATIONS, and released a year later as a counterpoint to that album, NOXIOUS VARIATIONS remains a strange and surrealistic gem, glowing with irradiated blue-silvers and speaking in alien tongues that surely drove the miners who excavated it into a hypnotic lethargy. Where POROUS VARIATIONS is solid and smooth-surfaced drone music, mixed and organized almost symmetrically with a careful balance and a focus on mindfulness, NOXIOUS VARIATIONS feels mutant and oddly beautiful, even when the fidelity of the recordings themselves seems to push back against the sound becoming too much like "music."

Included here on this expanded double-disc set are all seven original pieces, remastered in the White Pillar Workshop twelve years later, augmented by the inclusion of "Oubliette", issued as a 3" CD-R in 2009 (and possibly one of the heaviest tracks I've ever done), which is appended at the end of the first disc, as well as a second disc containing an expansive Coppice Halifax transfiguration of "At Forest's Edge", rendering the original NOXIOUS session tapes into a psychedelic deep techno experience.

Musically, NOXIOUS VARIATIONS was created in distinct opposition to the clean and meditative environments explored on POROUS VARIATIONS, perhaps as a methodology for breaking apart monotony using most of the same equipment, and assisting in the demolition were several different instruments and machines that were either not instruments at all (a modified Toshiba tape recorder) or were in various states of disrepair (a thrift shop electric guitar that was disassembled and used for feedback experiments and contact microphone configurations). NOXIOUS VARIATIONS is an intensely textured session that resembles little else in my catalog, besides perhaps the Vhom double-album BORLEY RECTORY or some of the weirder moments on albums like NINE BILLION NAMES. The inclusion of "Oubliette" feels apt, as if the first seven tracks are barely containing their insides, just beneath the threshold of noise, only to finally explode in all directions in a great cosmic flash on "Oubliette."

This reissue comes alongside the expanded edition of POROUS VARIATIONS, finally aligning both albums in their intended mirror-image contrasts, and offers two dense and multifaceted approaches to bedroom psychedelia to escape from the end of 2020 with.

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released December 4, 2020

W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at Rolling Knoll, 2008. Remastered by The Analog Botanist at White Pillar, Autumn 2020. Photography and text by ABM&D. This is Milieu Music number AD56, issue #56 in the Arboreal Digest reissue catalog. milieu-music.com analogbotany.com

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Brian Grainger Dayton, Ohio

Drone music, warm atmosphere and textural ephemera for the working man.

I also release music as Milieu milieumusic.bandcamp.com and Coppice Halifax coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com

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