Aleksandra Weil - vocals/piano
Eloise Govedare - drums/lyrics
Kris Darr - bass
Michael Muir - guitar
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BAND > BIOGRAPHY
Scarlet Room is where rock music and cabaret meet. It's where the theatrical storylines of Eloise Govedare's lyrics intertwine with the provocative melodies of Aleksandra Weil to create something both sweet and twisted.
The seeds of Scarlet Room were planted when Aleksandra and Eloise met in high school. Both classically trained pianists, Eloise eventually took to the drums while Aleksandra brought her voice to the microphone. After a few years of writing music together, the girls were joined by bassist/guitar player Kris Darr and guitar player Tim Keller, and the Scarlet Room sound became complete.
The band took a turn in early 2006 when Aleksandra and Eloise embraced their love for musical theater, turning Scarlet Room from a heavy rock band into what they have coined as "a cabaret rock musical". They have created a sound that is wholly unique, like the soundtrack to a dark circus, a sound that whirls around the listener and murmurs exciting promises in their ears. Scarlet Room urges their audience to step out of their comfort zone and embrace the beauty of chaos.
BAND > PRESS
8/2009Bonnie Vie: An Evening with Scarlet RoomI mentioned I’d had the chance to go to the Triple Door for the Scarlet Room + Vagabond Opera show and take photos. The entire night sang of the twisted and sweet, with a hint of Old World cabaret… The band is like a fantastic mechanical doll; churning out a whirl of circus and cabaret melodies, with a stage presence that is larger than life. With dark music-box-style keys, Alexsandra Weil - the group’s vocalist and pianist - weaves elaborate stories, written by Scarlet Room’s drummer, Eloise Govedare... Read more.
8/2008 Three Imaginary Girls Kexp Blog: Scarlet Room at the High Dive.
"I saw Scarlet Room a couple of months ago at the Showbox’s Green Room and was thoroughly impressed with their dark, sexy, Brechtian cabaret-inspired sound..."
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11/2007 Sepiachord.com: Scarlet Room EP review
"In the last few years there has been a slew of bands who've take on the moniker of "punk cabaret". While the term cabaret is generally fitting the usage of the word "punk" is misleading at best. Most of those artists have little or no rock influence, much less punk. It's as if "rock" is a bad word, something they choose to distance themselves from. Not so with Seattle's Scarlet Room. As you can hear on their new EP (and first CD) they are proud to marry cabaret to their foundations in rock. Cabaret rock? Cabarock?..."
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05/2007 LesbiaNation: "Life is a Cabaret for Scarlet Room"
"Masterminds who founded a musical style they’ve dubbed “cabaret rock,” twenty-somethings Aleksandra Weil and Eloise Govedare are a match made in musical heaven in the vein of a younger, hipper and female Kander and Ebb or Weill and Brecht..."
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2/2007 LesbiaNation, San Francisco, CA
Scarlet Room is featured in the premier issue of an L.A. based magazine LesbiaNation. Check out the cover and the review page 1 and page 2 here!