Secret Places Of The Lion

Secret Places Of The Lion

Saturn Fern

Not Not Fun

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.” Mastered by Jared Carrigan. Design by Britt Brown.

Secret Places Of The Lion

High Gardens

Not Not Fun

The wooded stargate of Western Massachusetts can lay claim to one of modern times’ premiere “deep zones” dispensaries: Secret Places of the Lion. Via their Saturn Fern HQ, they’ve issued three full-lengths plus some scattered private documents. The Lion’s latest continues the project’s legacy of regal arcana: High Gardens. Mirage synths and oracle organ lockstep with bronze clanking and MIDI percussion across six (plus a digi-only bonus) marbled hall pageants of arch templar simulacrum. Cryptic psychedelia from a mystery school at the threshold of ascendant cyber-Babylon. The Secret is Kept. The Places Unnamed. High Gardens for a Low and Barren Age. Mastered by Jared Carrigan.