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(click for full-page printable poster)
GENRES
Pop
Rock
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Rasputina
Larkin Grimm
The Curious Mystery
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Neumos 206-709-9442
925 E Pike St, Seattle, WA (MapQuest)
9pm (doors open at 8pm). 21 & Over.
$15.00 advance tix from Etix.
$17.00 at the door.
ABOUT RASPUTINA -
The seminal, cello-driven steampunk trio Rasputina works as an anomaly in popular music. By ignoring fashion trends and maintaining artistic integrity coupled with musical enthusiasm, the group has thrived as time has passed. They expose passionate fans to historical tales, and inspire young string players to seek alternatives to the classical world.
Last year Rasputina introduced fans to a renovated line-up. Melora Creager has operated the Rasputina outfit for 17 consecutive years. From its original inception (which included 7 cellists sans drummer) to today's power-trio, Rasputina has remained true to its mission of performing emotive, historically themed rock-music on the cello. I hope you'll consider advancing Rasputina's show with a feature, CD review or advance blurb. New blood is always needed, and for the first time ever, Rasputina includes a male cellist, Daniel De Jesus. He is an incredibly talented singer/cellist from Philadelphia. On punk-folk drums is Catie D'Amica, a brilliant young animal rehabilitator.
2008, also saw Melora and Daniel making a live recording in a behemoth of a defunct glue factory: "Melora a la Basilica," performing an intriguing selection of new originals, covers of songs by Goldfrapp, Tom Petty, Stephen Sondheim and others and remakes of the odd Rasputina tune. This release came encased in a metal tin with a numbered certificate and 8-panel insert of liner notes. Rasputina also toured opening for Siouxsie Sioux. In between, Melora contributed a performance to the soundtrack of Repo! The Genetic Opera joining the likes of Richard Patrick (Filter), Steven Perkins (Jane's Addiction), Clown (Slipknot), David J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets), Daniel Ash (Love & Rockets), Blasko (Ozzy Osborne), Tommy Clefetus (Rob Zombie's band), and many others as well as cutting tracks for her own second solo outing. Rasputina are preparing to enter the studio to begin work on their next album which should be released early next year. Repo! The Genetic Opera.
Rasputina's last album was released in 2007, Oh Perilous World, their sixth full length album and was supported by extensive North American touring. The album as well as Melora a la Basilica was released by the Filthy Bonnet Recording Co. with distribution through Ryko.
Born and raised in Kansas, Creager comes from a musical family and received classical training. At 18 she moved to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design. While majoring in photography she began playing her cello in rock bands and became involved with drag performers. She formed "The Fingerlakes Trio," a falsely geeky classical group that performed covers of disco hits, before joining NYC's Ultra Vivid Scene who recorded three albums for cult British label, 4AD. It was her first exposure to the professional rock world - UVS opened for label mates like The Pixies, Belly and Throwing Muses. Following a tour with Nirvana as a cellist on their In Utero tour she desired to do a project of her own, and she created Rasputina.
The concept for the group came to her fully formed; the idea was written as a manifesto. Her intention was to create an electric cello choir - no boys or guitars allowed. Through want ads she recruited like-minded young cellists. Rasputina evolved, employing elaborate costuming, as they were unable to move about while forcibly stationary in their chairs. What began as strictly "Victorian Whites"- bloomers, corsets and hoopskirts, has evolved into an amalgam of historical feminine icons- Indian princesses, Hawaiian handmaidens and fallen medieval queens, Rasputina keeps their cultish following enthralled with intimate recitals and post-show receiving lines.
Rasputina have released two albums on Columbia Records, Thanks For the Ether and How We Quit the Forest. Following a short break after the birth of Melora's daughter Hollis, the group returned with two more studio albums on Instinct Records, Cabin Fever, and Frustration Plantation. The live CD A Radical Recital was released in 2005 on Creager's own Filthy Bonnet Recording Co. record label.
Oh Perilous World was co-produced by Melora Creager and Charlie Campbell (who mixed the live A Radical Recital), mixed by Dae Bennett and recorded at the Clubhouse in Rhinebeck and Soundcheck Republic in Chatham near Melora's new home in New York State's Hudson Valley.
For more information visit www.rasputina.com
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