tranlated text kindly provided by Tony Wawryk

Already released in Autumn 2004 in the USA, this exciting Avant-Rock group from Philadelphia has found a German distribution outlet through Quixote Music. Already with the opening epic track 'House of Ash', an energetic mix of Ligeti (a la Space Odyssey), (later) organmusic, Gothic, pumping 70s Prog-rock and horror soundtrack is offered (the band has surely not coincidentally named itself after the 'The Masque of the Red Death' story by E.A.Poe). With 'Passage', those who have digested that (ie the previous piece - Tony) receive a more-or-less quarter-hour of Prog-Fusion with fantastic bass-work from Brandon Ross. Lynette Shelley here is reminiscent of a darker toned version of Pattie Santos from It's a Beautiful Day, sometimes of Madder Mortems Agnete M Kirkevaags and occasionally -in dramatic passages - of our own Jutta Weinhold, and yet at the end of it all remains incomparable. Whoever manages to survive this, reaches the glimpses of (song) madness of 'Yellow are his opening eyes' - this type of thing is seldom heard outside of experimental theatre or locked (ie closed to the public - Tony) institutions. Some small sympathy for the ears is then provided by the folky/medieval 'Beggars and Thieves', until 'Scarlet Experiment' honours it's title. Brave music for like-minded boundary seekers.