In the beginning Scarlet's Well was Bid (of Monochrome Set fame) accompanied by a fluctuating cast of girlish singers esoteric musicians & random collaborators. It was a beautiful but primarily solo vision. Lavishly illustrated albums emerged quietly all set in the vicinity of a place called Mousseron a sickly village situated somewhere east of the Azores & only slightly north of the Styx populated by howling wolves seductive mermaids & a bawdy captain with his crew of beer-swilling pirates and off-kilter animals with disturbingly human characteristics.