Katrina Pallon : voice
Marvin Abordo : electric & acoustic guitar
Ruel Sotto : drums
Aldwin Santos : bass guitar
Samuel Vigilia : keyboard synthesizer
Influences
The Doors, The Cure, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, Aha, The Cure, U2, Amorphis, Dream Theater, Miranda Sex Garden, Love Spiral Downwards, Dead Can Dance, The Pixies, a bit of classical music, and soundtracks from selected movies especially those by Danny Elfman and of course the artists from the New Wave era.
Conceived sometime in November 2003. While taking a break from the metro underground scene, Sam Vigilia started working on several songs from November 2003 to March 2004. After chasing muses for several months, he invited erstwhile acquaintance Marvin Abordo to join the band as the guitar player.
Along with some friends, they struggled to get the ball rolling with once a week practices at Alberto's studio in Quezon City. The first informal line up was: Marvin on guitars, Sam on keyboard and temporary vox, Jon Canda (also the Five Wounds' bassist) on bass/occasional drummer, and Karl as the session drummer.
After some time, Jon Canda begged off because of other priorites. Aldwin Santos then became the band's bassist upon Marvin Abordo's strong recommendation. Aldwin is really a guitarist but he really wanted to play bass this time around after playing with several bands in the 90's.
The band was temporarily named Crimson Lake. Taken from one of Sam's poems written on March 2004 about a doomed lover. While logging hours at the rehearsal studio, the band was also busy looking for a female vocalist who will make the words from the band's songs vibrate and shiver.
The first to be invited was Katrina Pallon, an art student whom Sam befriended in one of his crazy internet escapades. The band tempted fate and proceeded to scout for other prospective female vox. Sometime in May 2004, the band settled with Ruel Sotto as the permanent drummer for the then Crimson Lake.
Fate never wavered as after a month since Ruel attended the band rehearsals, Katrina became the permanent femme vox for the band. That was the time the band changed it's name to Scarlet Tears. After one of the band's song named also Scarlet Tears. Some weeks of gruelling rehearsals commenced as the band was busy too with school, work, and their own personal lives. But they perservered so that they can flesh out the band's music. Music that has already soothed each member's soul. Music that has yet to exist outside the rehearsal studio. Music that has yet to touch another willing soul.
Scarlet Tears was born on October 30, 2004 in Saguijo Bar, Makati in one of the local scene's production outfits called An Elysium. Their first gig.
Presently, they do gigs once or twice a month. And will soon attempt to release an independent record that will consist of around five songs, not ten songs mainly because of time and financial limitations.
And so, the band trudges on...
For more info about our Beneath A Crescent Moon CD or other queries, please contact us at scar_let_tears@yahoo.com or 09157833624 (Sam) or 09282279483 (Aldwin)
Salem is scheduled to reconstruct the Barbie Club, Kibbutz Galuyot 52, Tel Aviv, on January 11th 2007. The band promised to deliver a massive and violent set of songs, covering material from all releases, something they wanted to do since their last "civilized" concert with the ISCQ string quartet last year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
