The Juniper Suite is a semi-fictional recorded monodrama by composer and vocalist Nicki Sekhar, which chronicles the story of a protagonist through their journey of love, loss, demonic possession, and pyromania.

This is a journey through a year of unraveling—from sun-drunk summer to the bitter cold of winter, from the grip of something monstrous to the tentative promise of spring. It's about the person we become when we stop caring, and the fight to find our way back.

The Brooklyn-based artist, who has worked with ensembles such as Hypercube, The Rhythm Method, Dither, and Uniting Voices Chicago, begins their chronicles of a dark and twisted spiral into the darkest depths of one’s self with ‘Love’

The lead single is our entrance to the narrative arc, tracing the contours of first love and its inevitable dissolution. The protagonist, despite finding solace in romance, cannot escape an underlying restlessness—a fundamental inability to surrender to contentment. This track is driven by a pointillistic string pizzicato line, which traditional folk instrumentation sits on top of. It’s also inspired by a real-life apple-scented perfume (called “Love”) which Nicki wore throughout the creation of this work.