Composer Viviana Spokoininich wrote haunting melodies and ethereal compositions. Her life, however, was far from harmonious. Her controlling husband, driven by jealousy and insecurity, resorted to extreme measures to keep her under his thumb. He confined Viviana to a tiny attic room, stripping her of her freedom and inspiration. Isolated and oppressed in her suffocating prison, Viviana found solace in gazing at the moon through a small, barred window. One fateful night, the moon shone an unusual shade of bright orange, casting an eerie glow over her dim surroundings. Mesmerized by this otherworldly sight, Viviana's mind began to unravel. As days turned into nights spent in solitary confinement, Viviana's fixation on the moon intensified. She started to believe that the moon was reaching out to her, speaking in whispers that only she could hear. The once silver orb in the sky now transformed into a canvas where mystical creatures and phantom figures danced before her eyes. Driven to the brink of madness by her husband's cruelty and her own spiraling thoughts, Viviana's hallucinations seeped into every corner of the room. The patterned wallpaper became a tapestry of her fractured mind, where shadows morphed into sinister shapes and imaginary beings flickered in and out of existence. Unbeknownst to her, Viviana's descent into delusion and despair would later inspire the renowned writer Charlotte Perkins Gillman to pen her chilling tale, "The Yellow Wallpaper." Through Viviana's haunting music, the darkness that lurked within the human psyche was vividly illuminated, echoing through the ages as a cautionary tale of control, confinement, and the thin line between reality and madness.

Vocals: Kaitlyn Ni Donovan
Piano: Steve White

Recorded in 2007/2008 In Scott Garred’s living room and at Reclinerland HQ in Portland, OR. Mixed and mastered by Michael Johnson and Scott Garred.