Rasputina
Cover of "The Lost and Found" by Ryan Obermeyer
Origin	Brooklyn, New York
Country	United States
Years active	1992 – present
Genres	Alternative rock Cello rock Gothic rock
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Members	Melora Creager Jonathon TeBeest
Past members	Zoë Keating Julia Kent Kris Cowperthwaite Agnieszka Rybska Nana Bornant Carpella Parvo Serena Jost Lisa Haney Perry James Tom Martin Mark Hutchins
Website(s)	www.rasputina.com

Rasputina is a varying collection of cellists playing alternative rock. The band officially began in Brooklyn, New York in 1992, when Melora Creager put out an advertisement requesting members to form an all-cello band. Cellist Julia Kent responded and the two formed what was dubbed the Traveling Ladies' Cello Society. Instinct Records is a New York City electronic music label that first gained prominence in 1990. ... Melora Creager (born March 25, 1966) is an American cellist and singer-songwriter. ... Zoë Keating is a Canadian-born cellist and composer based in San Francisco, California. ... Julia Kent is a Canadian musician who is best known as a founding member of all-cello group Rasputina. ... Tom Martin (born July 29, 1964, Chicago, Illinois) is an American television writer. ... The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... NY redirects here. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Melora Creager (born March 25, 1966) is an American cellist and singer-songwriter. ... Julia Kent is a Canadian musician who is best known as a founding member of all-cello group Rasputina. ...

Creager writes all of the lyrics for Rasputina, save the cover songs, performs most of the vocals, and creates a significant amount of the art for the band's albums, singles, and website.

History

While Rasputina was locally well-known and somewhat popular with audiences, their music didn't seem to fit into any category. For this reason, the band was largely untouched until an A&R department representative named Jimmy Boyle saw them at a festival concert and signed them to Columbia Records. In 1996, Thanks for the Ether was released, and afterwards Rasputina toured with such bands as Bob Mould, Porno for Pyros and, in particular, Marilyn Manson. In 1997 Transylvanian Regurgitations, a follow up ep remixed by Manson, was released. In the music industry, artist and repertoire (A&R) refers to the division of a record label that is responsible for scouting and artist development. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Thanks for the Ether is the debut album of Rasputina, released in 1996 with Columbia Records. ... Bob Mould (born October 16, 1960, in Malone, New York) is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for influential rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s. ... Porno for Pyros was a US musical group and was Perry Farrells and Stephen Perkins next project after their former band Janes Addiction. ... Marilyn Manson is a rock band based in Los Angeles, California. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Transylvanian Regurgitations is an EP by Rasputina and remixed by Marilyn Manson which was released by in 1997 with Columbia Records. ... EP can stand for: EP is the IATA code for Iran Aseman Airlines Extended play, a music recording (usually consisting of several tracks, but shorter than a typical album) European Parliament, the parliamentary body of the European Union Evolutionary psychology, a belief that psychology can be better understood in light...

On their second full-length album, How We Quit the Forest, Rasputina signed on Chris Vrenna (from Nine Inch Nails) as their drummer and producer, influencing them to go ahead with the distortion they had been experimenting with. He provided electronic drums, and other electronically produced sound effects in the rhythm department. How We Quit the Forest is an album of Rasputina, released in 1998. ... Chris Vrenna (born in Erie, Pennsylvania on February 23, 1967) is an American musician, Grammy-winning producer, drummer, engineer, remixer, songwriter and programmer, and is a former drummer for Nine Inch Nails (1990–96). ... “NIN” redirects here. ...

As Rasputina toured and recorded, Creager and Kent took on other members for short periods of time. A cellist named Lisa Haney played third chair for a couple of years before they signed to Columbia Records. Carpella Parvo was the third cellist on Thanks for the Ether, but left the country afterwards. Agnieszka Rybska performed on How We Quit the Forest and is listed in the "special thanks" section for Thanks for the Ether. In 1998, Rybska became pregnant and temporarily left the band. Drummer Perry James toured with the band in 1998-1999. Julia Kent left during the four year hiatus between their 1998 album How We Quit the Forest and their 2002 debut Cabin Fever on Moby's record label Instinct Records. In 2004 they released a rather quick follow up album, Frustration Plantation. One of the driving forces behind that album, Zoë Keating, left the band in 2006,^[1] Creager's current assemblage consists of her and Jonathon TeBeest. Ex-Graces cellist Stephanie McVey occupied second chair from September of 2006 to January of 2007. Sarah Bowman rejoined Rasputina on their spring 2007 tour of the U.S. Their forthcoming album is to be released on June 26th 2007. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Julia Kent is a Canadian musician who is best known as a founding member of all-cello group Rasputina. ... How We Quit the Forest is an album of Rasputina, released in 1998. ... Cabin Fever is an album from Rasputina released in 2002 with Instinct Records. ... Moby (born Richard Melville Hall, September 11, 1965), is an American songwriter, musician and singer. ... Instinct Records is a New York City electronic music label that first gained prominence in 1990. ... Frustration Plantation, the fourth studio album recorded by cello-dominated goth rock group Rasputina, was released by Instinct Records on March 16, 2004. ... Zoë Keating is a Canadian-born cellist and composer based in San Francisco, California. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

All of the members seem to share an interest in the Victorian era, and express it most obviously through their clothing, appearing in costume at concerts and in photographs. However, despite their love for antiquities, and their sometimes dark, ethereal sound, they don't easily fit into any well defined genre. Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...

New album: Oh Perilous World

Brooklyn chamber-rock outfit Rasputina released their sixth full-length album, Oh Perilous World!, June 26 via Filthy Bonnet. Following the release of her 2006 solo album, Perplexions, singer/lead celloist Melora Creager spent the last two years scouring over daily world events and adapting them into songs. Oh Perilous World, the sixth full length album from chamber-rock trio Rasputina, was performed by the bands creator cellist/lead singer Melora Creager and drummer Jonathon TeBeest with second chair Sarah Bowman contributing additional vocals. ... Perplexions is an album by Rasputina frontwoman Melora Creager which was released on December 4, 2006, by the Filthy Bonnet Recording Company. ...

"I wrote the songs featured on Oh Perilous World! over the last two years when I realized that current world events were more bizarre than anything I could scrounge up from the distant past," she says. "I obsessively read daily news on the Internet and copied words, phrases and whole stories that especially intrigued me and compiled a vast notebook of this material."[1]

Oh Perilous World! is performed by Creager, alongside drummer Jonathon TeBeest with second chair Sarah Bowman, of the Bowmans. Category: ...

The album was leaked onto P2P networks in full on June 14, 2007.

Tracklist For Oh Perilous World!:

• 1816, The Year Without A Summer
• Choose Me For A Champion
• Cage In A Cave
• Incident In A Medical Clinic
• Draconian Crackdown
• Child Soldier Rebellion
• Oh Bring Back The Egg Unbroken
• Old Yellowcake Breaking News
• In Old Yellowcake
• We Stay Behind
• A Retinue Of Moons/The Infidel Is Me
• The Pruning

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Band members

Current members

• Melora Creager is a former jewelry designer. She has been playing the cello since she was 9 and maintains that her teacher, an old man from Boston, would call her a pickled herring if she made a mistake. Creager grew up in Kansas but moved to New York in 1984, where she attended Parsons, an art college. Melora has performed with many bands, including Ultra Vivid Scene, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Pixies, Belle & Sebastian and Babe The Blue Ox.

• Jonathon Tebeest was raised in the Midwest, and recently moved back to Minnesota after a stint in New York City. He has always lived a life of music - he has been playing the drums since the age of 3. With this talent and a fervent love of music, Jonathon has been touring and recording with bands since the age of 19. Along the way, he has also had training on the piano and all things percussion, has picked up the guitar, bass, and pretty much anything else he could get his hands on. Jonathon started his professional career with the intense horn-drivin party band, 3 Minute Hero in his homeland of Minnesota. That band started his love of performing live as the boys were playing about 250 shows per year during its existence. Eventually it was off to New York, where Jonathon hooked up with Ms. Melora Creager and her group Rasputina. He has since appeared on five of the group's albums, including the recently released Oh, Perilous World!. He has also had the opportunity to tour the nation with Rasputina. In the past, he has worked with many other bands including New Professionals, Mink, Gravity, THIS, Strangelove, Goodfinger and Dirty Excuse. Jonathon is a songwriter and has just started a band of his own.

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Former and tour members

• Zoë Keating began playing the cello at age 9. She grew up in Canada and attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York. In addition to having worked with Rasputina, Zoe is also a soloist and composer. She has two recordings, a CD called One Cello x 16: Natoma, and an EP titled One Cello × 16. She wrote music for the documentary Frozen Angels, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.^[2] Zoe is also an information architect and has worked on projects for the Research Libraries Group and the Database of Recorded American Music.
• Julia Kent is a Canadian musician who is best known as a founding member of all-cello group Rasputina. She began playing the cello when she was six. She left Rasputina in 1999 and has played cello with a variety of bands since then, including the goth/surf rock band, Bela. She was also has played with Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and Joe Gallant's Illuminati. With Illuminati, she appeared on the albums Terrapin, Live Vol. 2, and Shadowhead. She is now the first chair cellist with the musical group Antony and the Johnsons and has played on albums by Delerium, Rachael Sage, and Sheryl Crow. She has now a CD of her own, of looped cello tunes titled "Delay".
• Kris Cowperthwaite was with the band from 1999 to 2002.
• Serena Jost was with the band prior to their signing with Columbia Records.
• Carpella Parvo was with the band from 1995 through 1996. She is apparently missing.
• Lisa Haney was with the band prior to their signing with Columbia Records.
• Perry James toured with the band during 1998 and 1999 as drummer.
• Agnieszka Rybska was with the band from 1996 through 1998. She left because of pregnancy, and now has 2 daughters.
• Nana Bornant was with the band from 1998 through 2001 and was therefore present for the band's appearance on Late Night With Conan O'Brien.
• Tom Martin was the original drummer. Although he wasn't really a drummer, [2] he is now a tattooist.
• Norman Block is credited for playing drums on Thanks for the Ether.
• Chris Vrenna, drummer and producer for How We Quit the Forest
• Sarah Bowman performs with her twin sister Claire as The Bowmans and in the rock band Lowry. She was touring with Rasputina for the first part of their 2006 tour.
• Erica Mulkey, or Unwoman will be performing during the remainder of the tour. Notably, she recently performed with Rasputina in New Orleans and has been a long time fan.
• Steph McVey of The Graces was appointed as third-chair cellist, and was with the band for a few shows. Steph is from San Antonio, Texas, and her band attributed their influences to Rasputina and others.

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Discography

Albums

• Thanks for the Ether - Columbia Records, 1996
• How We Quit the Forest - Columbia Records, 1998
• Cabin Fever - Instinct Records, 2002
• Frustration Plantation - Instinct Records, 2004
• Perplexions - Filthy Bonnet Co., 2006 (Creager's Solo Album)
• Oh Perilous World!-Filthy Bonnet Co., 2007

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Live albums

• A Radical Recital - Filthy Bonnet Co., 2005

This is an excellent live recording of a Rasputina recital held in Pittsburgh, PA, on Halloween, 2004. ...

Singles and EPs

• The Olde HeadBoard - Columbia Records, 1998
• The Lost & Found (1st Edition) - RPM Records, 2001
• My Fever Broke - Instinct Records, 2002
• The Lost and Found, 2nd Edition - Instinct Records, 2003
• Transylvanian Regurgitations - Columbia Records, 1997

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Promotional

• Transylvanian Concubine/The Vaulted Eel, Lesson #6 - Oculus Records 1993
• Three (3) - (promo), 1994
• Three Lil' Nothin's - (promo), 1996
• Transylvanian Regurgitations - Columbia Records, 1997

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Misc

• "Transylvanian Concubine" on the television soundtrack album Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album.
• "Transylvanian Concubine" on The Black Bible, a 4 disc compilation album released by Cleopatra Records. (October 27, 1998) [3]
• Our Lies - 2001
• "Hunter's Kiss" on the compilation album 12 Tales - 2002
• "Coraline" on the Neil Gaiman tribute album Where's Neil When You Need Him? Dancing Ferret - 2006
• "A Skeleton Bang" on the charity album Colours Are Brighter - 2006

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Trivia

• Creager, Kent and Rybska realized soon after they met that they had all attended the same nanny school in Manhattan.
• Creager is a self-proclaimed history buff and often bases Rasputina’s lyrics on said history. For example, the song "My Little Shirtwaist Fire" is based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911.
• The song "Rose K." is about Rosemary Kennedy.
• According to Creager, many people assume the song "The Mayor" is about George W. Bush. It is about a mentally ill friend of Creager's.
• The band's name itself came from a song Creager had written called "Rasputina," which in turn was conceived from her obsession with Rasputin at the time.
• Creager is obsessed with Howard Hughes and, at live performances, frequently relates facts and anecdotes related to his decline in mental and physical health in his later years.
• The band's official website claims that the trio was formed in 1891.
• Melora Creager was a touring cellist with Nirvana, playing on live renditions of songs like "All Apologies" and "Dumb."

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See also

• Ryan Obermeyer
• Symon Chow

Ryan Obermeyer Ryan Obermeyer (born February 13, 1981 in Dallas, TX) is an American artist creating strikingly surreal and hyperreal digital photographs and paintings. ... Symon Chow is an American photographer and graphic designer. ...

References

1. ^ "Newsbunny". Rastputina: A Division of the Ladies' Cello Society. Retrieved on 2006-06-29. "Unfortunately, Zoe has left the group to pursue her solo work."
2. ^ Keating, Zoë (June 2006). About zoecello. ZoeCello. MySpace.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-29.

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External links

• Rasputina's Official Website
• Zoë Keating's Official Website
• Jonathon Tebeest's Official Website
• Full discography
• Huge Gallery

• Rasputina at Discogs