PIRANESI

The Concept

The Carceri d'invenzione — the Imaginary Prisons — were a series of etchings by 18th-century Italian architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi: colossal, impossible interiors of vaulted chambers, crumbling staircases, and machinery without purpose. They were dreamscapes of confinement. Beautiful and terrifying.

This collection of five songs uses those impossible architectures as metaphor. Each character — Sky Woman cast from the heavens, Jaxx! plunging into a well, Houdini's ghost pleading through the veil, a fever-dream wanderer adrift in grief, Pasiphae condemned by a god's cruelty — navigates their own labyrinth.

The songs span myth, history, legend, and pure imagination. What binds them is the architecture of their telling — and the stone walls that each character cannot pass.