Music is Medicine

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I write a lot of songs.
I don’t play out/perform much.
I love moss and peepers.

2024 Public Releases so far...

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2023 Public Releases

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2022 Public Releases

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2021 Public Releases

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2020 Public Releases

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2019 - Medicine of Time Travel

Album Release: September 2019

Medicine of Time Travel: An Abridged Sonic Autobiography

Nervous Relatives Records’ tenth studio album release. (Sept. 2019)

Composed, engineered, mixed, mastered and produced by Holly Brewer
Holly Brewer – vocals, midi, instruments
Released 20 September
cc2019 Nervous Relatives Records | cc2019 Nervous Relatives Music
“Medicine Girl” Cover Painting by Héctor Casanova
Back Cover, Layout & Booklet by Holly Brewer

Music you can hold and smell

Medicine of Time Travel in a Bottle (Full Album) w/ .WAV + MP3 Files + All Album Artwork

USB works with MAC & PC
The USB is Refillable so you can add/empty the contents and use this USB for anything you want later 🙂

Note: This is the cutest thing you will ever see from me.

Medicine Bottle
6GB Glass drift bottle with Cork USB Flash Drive
Nested in a stamped wooden box with lavender and cedar shavings.
The box has a magnet closure feature.

INSIDE THE BOTTLE: Holly Brewer’s Medicine of Time Travel (Full Album) .WAV and .mp3 files.
High resolution .PDF files of all of the album’s associated Artwork including Inside and Outside Cover Art. (important to solve many of the album’s hidden messages and codes.

Tracklist
bows and arrows
billboard bandit
flesh shapes
can’t hit
excess
water balloons
EACHONETEACHONE
Teatime Wormhole
Medicine of Time Travel
lilacs
oneteen
Medicine of Time Travel – tea mix

Medicine of Time Travel on CD

Medicine of Time Travel on CD in Eco Wallet w/ 16 Pg Colour Booklet

Medicine CD
Comes in a lovely side opening eco wallet case (CD in one side and booklet in the other)
A full colour 16 pg booklet (the biggest this design allows) accompanies the music.
There are riddles to solve, clues that lead you to a secret website (song download) and many hidden messages from holly inside the album artwork.

Note: Employ a magnifying glass to solve the puzzles.

Tracklist
bows and arrows
billboard bandit
flesh shapes
can’t hit
excess
water balloons
EACHONETEACHONE
Teatime Wormhole
Medicine of Time Travel
lilacs
oneteen
Medicine of Time Travel – tea mix

Souvenirs & Special Limited Editions

Grey-washed Medicine Dreams artwork by Héctor Casanova silk screened Next Level T-Shirt printed with water-based inks.
4.3oz Fine Jersey100% Combed Ring-Spun Cotton
Label: Tear Away
Sizes are Unisex
Note: I feel the sizes run a bit big. A Small on me feels like a Medium FYI (though I’ve not washed it yet).
Medicine Girl (Numbered 1 -20 LIMITED EDITION)
The adorably haunting cover art for Medicine of Time Travel by Héctor Casanova
14 x 11 Canvas Print, wood frame w/ metal “hole punch style” hanger screwed into the frame (for flat flush with wall hanging.

Note: Muted tones

Medicine Girl Numbered 1 – 100 LIMITED EDITION
The adorably haunting cover art for Medicine of Time Travel by Héctor Casanova
printed on 11 x 17 poster, 14pt Archival Quality card stock, gloss front.

Note: Very vivid colours

HUMANWINE SWAG

Black Soft Medium-weight Cotton w/ Light Grey print

5 . 4-ounce, 100% cotton
Cover seamed neck and shoulder-to-shoulder taping. Double-needle hem.

SIZING: Have a tape measure?
Measure your favourite shirt that fits you perfectly – choose sizes accordingly.

Specific Sizes (in inches) width under the arms x height from neck to base
Small: 17 x 26.5   |  Medium: 19.5 x 29  |  Large: 21 x 29  |  XL: 23 x 30  |  2XL: 26 x 30

The Folks Below

The Folks Below
Released May 17, 2013

This debut self-titled release from The Folks Below reclaims and weaves stories from the underbelly of a burning city once consigned to oblivion.

The word on the street is that The Folks Below have excavated a number of clay plates made by the YerYerOwn. Each had the appearance of an ordinary piece of pottery with an incised spiral decoration on the underside. Upon closer examination we realized the spiral had to have been mechanically produced. While researching methods available to the YerYerOwn we used a copper cone to trace the spirals. A resounding cry of joy bounced off the walls of the vacant speakeasy when the first plate was tested. The YerYerOwn had disguised these clay recordings as everyday dinner plates. It is known that the YerYerOwn employ many methods to conceal messages from outsiders. This is the first of this method we have found. Of the XXXI plates we unearthed
XI have been decoded.
The sonic “quality” of the audio we could get from the plates was not fit for a proper release so we recreated what we heard and recorded it in a state of the art studio.

Holly Brewer – Producer, Composer, Writer, Vocals / Guitar
Nate Greenslit – Percussion / Vocals
Paul Dilley – Double Bass / Vocals
Jon Evans – Engineer
Recorded at Brick Hill Studios

Photography by Ray Larose
Layout and Booklet by Holly Brewer

cc2013 Nervous Relatives Records

Ask Me 03:08
Fern 02:34
Nightmare 04:31
Element 04:37
Breathe 04:27
Dementia 03:47
Rope Climb 02:55

HUMANWINE

HUMANWINE – æther and c0dex
Released May 1, 2016

aether-terra
01 Bismuth
02 Depmos
03 Fallow
04 Potash
05 King’s Yellow
06 Root
07 One
08 Till
09 Wise Man’s Eyes On
10 Prey for us

aether-aqua
11 Submerge
12 Current
13 Gyre
14 Silt
15 Hoarfrost
16 Rime Ice
17 Pawn To Queen
18 Mirrored
19 Kill a Stone
20 Trine

aether-aer
21 White lead
22 Allegiance
23 Noctum
24 Levity
25 Drift
26 Beholden
27 Amygdala
28 Nomad
29 Abyss
30 Wake

aether-ignis
31 Core
32 Soot
33 Zero Gravity
34 Intent
35 Mask
36 R.A.C.K.
37 Corona
38 Flowers of Sulphur
39 Huirs
40 Groundswell

Written, Performed, Engineered, Mixed & Produced by Holly Brewer & M. McNiss
Artwork by Holly Brewer & M. McNiss
Mastered by Dan Richardson with HUMANWINE Up in the Basement

cc2k16 Nervous Relatives

HUMANWINE – Fighting Naked
 Released May 1, 2007 / Re-released March 14, 2014

Fighting Naked takes you a little deeper into Vinland. Why Fighting Naked?
“Because the weapons are our minds and the pens we use to vote. We are the ARMY THAT ISN’T HERE TO FIGHT. We march. We hold our Sign high so the cameras can see, so the world can see. We know more people give a shit than don’t ESPECIALLY if they are allowed to see the truth,” says a YerYerOwn while spinning clay pottery in an underground parlor. Meeting places like this are common amongst the YerYerOwn or Abrogated Munificents, as the Not-Me refers to them in the Horde memos coming from the Dept. of Fear.

Concepts and stories resembling real life people or places are completely by chance or are they?

Recorded at Mark Sandman’s old house & Camp Street

Artwork & Layout by Holly Brewer and M.McNiss

Holly Brewer – Producer, Composer, voice, percussion
M. McNiss –  Composer, voice, guitars, banjo, drums
Benji – sousaphone
Jeremy John Pilny – piano

Paul Dilley – upright bass, banjo, voice
Brian Viglione – drums, voice
Nate Greenslit – drums, voice
Brian Carpenter – trumpets, harmonium

HUMANWINE – Mass Exodus EP
Released October 8, 2009

All songs written by Holly Brewer & M. McNiss

Holly Brewer – voice, pianos
Matthew McNiss – voice, guitar, percussion
Nate Greenslit – drums

Paul Dilley – upright bass
Courtenay Vandiver – cello
Ashley Vandiver – violin

HUMANWINE – for burning cities present
Early Unauthorized Release September 13, 2004
Released October 5, 2004

Long story short – Originally this was going to be a demo but it got hijacked and released as a record by a guy who is dead now. (natural causes)

We made it an official Nervous Relatives Records release October 5, 2004 after we realized the hijacking but we were never happy with the production. It was supposed to be a demo.

The songs will be up shortly.

Recorded during 2003 in a barn in a remote town in Ontario Canada owned by a man who ran away from the circus who told us to come up there and record after seeing Holly Brewer on a TV documentary about sexual abuse in the Jehovah’s Witness Religion. He put us up in a house that we had to cross open fields of coyotes to get to – in the middle of the winter with animals on a farm that were dying of frostbite all around us. Holly became an unlicensed veterinarian that year on the farm. The smell of death was everywhere – we should have known.

Track listing

Fire
Hypodermic Imagery
Kalifornia
Estat
Fattest Thin
Drugs the Masquerade

Bizarre!
Cat’s Cradle
Vast the Olde World Then Sails
What Kidz Sey
X Marks the Spot
Intoxicated
Vin D’Humaine

Artwork and Layout by Holly Brewer & M. McNiss

HUMANWINE

All songs written by Holly Brewer & M. McNiss
Artwork by Holly Brewer & M. McNiss

Veil

Veil – Xe.
Released September 1, 2002

Veil is what would later become HUMANWINE. A bunch of the songs from this record went on to appear in later HUMANWIINE releases.
This was the second release from Nervous Relatives Records.

A bunch of my metalhead friends from a farmhouse in NH convinced me to start a band to get my songs out into the world. I’m so thankful they did.

Artwork and Layout by Holly Brewer & M. McNiss

George Pratt – Not a Nice Old Man
Released July 15, 2014

Written by George Pratt – guitar & vocals
Holly Brewer – vocals – “We Drove All the Way”

Virtual Tip Jars

Background Photo by Ray Larose
cc Nervous Relatives Records 2024