The first track takes about three minutes to get going.  If you like drone and ambient, stick with it.  Long tones coloured by field recordings.  It’s a darkly beautiful reset note for my brain before bed.  G’night,

This is… um.  How to describe?  There’s definitely a strummed ukelele in this drone-heavy, swirling, dark lo-fi acid folk with a Sun Ra-y vibe (to me).  It’s weird, and fun, and good for working in the middle of the night.  G’night.

This is just gorgeous.  A nice gentle start to the day from /please/.  Good morning.

Possibly a little too sylvan for some of you, but we’re fond of a bit of the leafy and ethereal here at Ellis Glades, from time to time, and we think this is very bright and pretty.

And that’s it from me this week.  Back Monday.  Things are a hair less crazier here, so the site should be more active from Monday morning, and there are some things planned for the near future of the place.

As ever, if you’ve got something you think I should be featuring here, warrenellis at gmail dot com gets me in the end.  I’ve been way out of touch with things over the last few months, and have a lot to catch up on.

Anji Cheung made RITUAL, one of my favourite records of last year.  She and collaborator Beard Closet are playing me out with a piece from their new record together, STONEMAKER.  Subterranean and supernatural, devotional and doomed.  Which is how we like it, here at Ellis Caves.  Click through to get the whole thing for free.  Have a good weekend.

An animated film by Max Crow.  I find this kind of visualisation fascinating.  For extra points, the music is by HANDWITHLEGS, who I featured in SPEKTRMODULE 02.

XETROV from Max Crow on Vimeo.

I am a great admirer of Jon Mueller’s record THE WHOLE, so when I saw this link posted by Miasmah on Twitter, I was all over it.  An album that comes with a manifesto, in fact.  DEATH BLUES lives up to its name, and this will set you up good for some cursed, oppressive and cobalt-coloured dreams about running away from things you can’t escape.  Good times.  Click through to buy the download for five Yanqui dollars.

A new record for unsettled post-midnight listening by the excellent Talvihorros.  Click through for physical and digital pre-ordering after you’ve streamed it for free here.  G’night.

A new album by old mate of warren ellis dot com Kemper Norton?  I’ll have some of that.  And so will you.  Click through to buy for a very reasonable price, or stream the whole thing here.  G’night.

It is clearly Epic Titles Week.  I present Matthew Shaw’s 41-minute opus, in the hopes that your dreams are strange, sweeping and high-definition:

An EP called EYES.  Good for a burned forebrain.  G’night.

MISSA CELESTE, by Drop Sum.  Space-cathedral ambient from Kiev.

La Mer, by riverrun.  The player below seems to default to the fourth track, which is lovely, but give the whole thing a listen if you’d like something foggily comforting for the forebrain tonight.

Because every now and then, in the middle of the night, what you want is some classic Berlin School style synth washes.  And Lunar Miasma does the best ones.  G’night.

Perhaps you might like to listen to Erstlaub’s new record, a beautiful piece of fogbound electronic mystery called MARCONI’S SHIPWRECK.  You can find out all about it here.

First I will lay into the (compressed) audiovisual version, and then the Bandcamp streaming version (where you can also buy a digital version for little money, as well as the physical version).

Marconi’s Shipwreck from Erstlaub on Vimeo.

Some proper nighted, chilly dreampop to shut down with.  G’night.

A new side of I††, Chris Hopper and Ultima Esperanza.  A sideways escape out of witch house, for the most part, into a grimly psychedelic industrial space.

A very evocative collection of glitchy witch-ambient from Australia.  G’night.