Protea is Serena Toxicat's thorny, sharp-clawed, 21st century brainchild. She recommends that you enjoy a tincture of this mysterious flower in a cozy dungeon with a crystal divinatory pendulum and a cup of catnip tea.


This intensely personal, dark experimental project has grown to include a small constellation of guest musicians in the electronic idiom, including John Nelson, tara ntula and cats, Jamahl Tulloch and his kitty Myrrh, thereminist Joseph Max, ARP drone artist Matt Azevedo, and of course Toxicat's divine felines.

Its manifestation into form has come about through technologies of varying strata, from low budget to high end, and has never included any stock loops or sounds, rather soundscapes crafted from found aural sources.

A priestess of Bast, Sekhmet and Isinephthys ordained in the Fellowship of Isis at Isis Oasis temple and ocelot sanctuary, Serena celebrates the Ancient Egyptian pantheon with gnosis and devotion in a matrix of ether and artful "noise".

Since the release of The Osiris Tree one winter solstice, Protea has been featured on several compilations and will release a second full-length album in time for this September's Conflux Dark Arts Festival.

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