Rasputina

Rasputina is a group of alternative Musique formed by Melora Creager ( which had taken part in other musical projects and had accompanied Nirvana in trournée) with New York in 1992 with Julie Kent. Both comparses will be later joined by other musicians the first being the Violoncelliste LISA Haney which played with them before the exit of their first album.

Their musical style is often described as “white Goth” because inter alia theirs imagery of inspiration victorienne (their appropriate dresses inter alia…) and the use of Violoncello S.

Noticed by Jimmy Boyle at the time of a concert they will leave in 1996, with Carpella Parvo like third violoncellist, their first album “Thanks for The Ether” and will leave in round with inter alia Bob Mould, Porno for Pyros and Marilyn Manson. Besides this last will take part in their maximum “Transylvanian Regurgitations” left in 1997.

In 1998 the group leaves its second album “How We Quit the Forest” with like beater and producing Chris Vrenna the group Nine Inch Nails and the participation Agnieszka Rybska (already quoted in the thanks of “Thanks for the Ether” ) Carpella Parvo having left Rasputina shortly after the exit of the first album.

The same Rybska year fall pregnant and free the group, it will be joined later by Kent, in 2000 Creager recruits the Frenchwoman Nana Limiting and K. Cowperthwaite. It is this new formation which will be confined of “Cabin Fever” in 2002. Limiting in June of the same year will leave the group followed by Cowperthwaite four months later. They will be replaced by Zoe Keating and Jonathon TeBeest. The new formation will leave the album live “Frustration Plantation” in 2004 and “has Radical Recital” in 2005.

External bonds

the official site of the group
Rasputina Lyrics
complete and illustrated Discography + the French-speaking Community
the largest photograph gallery on the group

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