Secret Places of the Lion: Saturn Fern CS

Recent works by West Mass ritualist Secret Places of the Lion have explored a fusion of orphic synthetics and MIDI machinery, but Saturn Fern documents the project’s primordial origins in dosed tarot electric guitar. Recorded across 2012 and 2013 between a garage deep in the desolate woods of Belchertown and a New Haven apartment above a North African garden café, the process was acidic, smoky, nocturnal, and improvised.

Long-form guitar traced in FX and braided into loose loops, dusted with keys, the collection’s nine tracks were captured in single takes straight to a field recorder. In the artist’s words: “Field recordings from the deep field.”