Scarlet

Scarlet Thread is the name of a young and gifted Finnish Progressive rock band, founded in 1995. More than a decade later, its second album is published on the Musea label, "Valheista Kaunein". The particularity of Scarlet Thread is that there are two guitarists, whereas the keyboards parts have been replaced by a full-time violin player and also some flute sequences. This band has its own identity, melting dynamism, freshness and refinement. There are some folk hints in their melodies, but it's a real rock album. These nine instrumental pieces sometimes recall Renaissance (in a more powerful style), Kansas or Jethro Tull.

The duo Scarlet Fantastic were formed in Birmingham, West Midlands, England in 1985 when the briefly successful Swan’s Way collapsed. After a single album the trio lost Robert Shaw, which left vocalist Maggie DeMond and instrumentalist Rick Jones to continue as Scarlet Fantastic. Dressed in garish costumes befitting the New Romantic era, Scarlet Fantastic achieved two hit singles, ‘No Memory’ (number 24, October 1987) and ‘Plug Me In (To The Central Love Line)’ (number 67, January 1988). They also recorded a sole, non-charting album which Jones remembers as ‘disjointed’. They broke up 1988.