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The Willow Tree (Rasputina Album)
''The Willow Tree Triptych'' is a limited edition EP by Rasputina, of 100 units which were released in 2009. The album contains 3 different songs from 3 countries, all titled "The Willow Tree", in American, English, Irish. The album also features individual hand-numbered and hand-collaged covers by Melora & Hollis so each CD packaging is unique. Track listing Album details *Original Release Date: 2009 *Label: none *Recording Mode: Stereo *Recording Type: Studio *Producer: Melora Creager *Distributor: ''self-distributed'' *Rasputina: Melora Creager Melora Creager (born March 25, 1966) is an American cello, cellist, singer-songwriter, performing artist and founder of the rock band Rasputina (band), Rasputina. Early life, beginnings and Rasputina Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, M ... (cello, vocals) *Additional Personnel: Hollis Lane Creager (album artwork). References 2009 EPs Rasputina (band) albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasputina (band)
Rasputina is an American rock band based in New York City, known for their unconventional music style, as well as their fascination with historical allegories and fashion, especially those pertaining to the Victorian era. The group is fronted by cellist/vocalist Melora Creager, who writes the music and lyrics and creates art for the band's albums, singles, and website. History In 1989, Creager wrote a manifesto, and placed an ad in The Village Voice seeking women to form an electric cello choir. Julia Kent, then an editor at the Village Voice, was the first respondent. The original group of nine was whittled to three. They named themselves "Rasputina", after one of Creager's songs. The group performed frequently and became a local favorite in New York City. Columbia Records' A&R representative and producer Jimmy Boyle saw the group perform at a New York festival. He signed the group to the Columbia Records label in 1996. Creager and Boyle produced their first album on Columbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson Valley
The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York. The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to Yonkers in Westchester County, bordering New York City. History Pre-Columbian era The Hudson Valley was inhabited by indigenous peoples ages before Europeans arrived. The Lenape, Wappinger, and Mahican branches of the Algonquins lived along the river, mostly in peace with the other groups. The lower Hudson River was inhabited by the Lenape, The Lenape people waited for the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano onshore, traded with Henry Hudson, and sold the island of Manhattan. Further north, the Wappingers lived from Manhattan Island up to Poughkeepsie. They lived a similar lifestyle to the Lenape, residing in various villages along the river. They traded with both the Lenape to the south and the Mahicans to the north. The Mahicans lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melora Creager
Melora Creager (born March 25, 1966) is an American cellist, singer-songwriter, performing artist and founder of the rock band Rasputina. Early life, beginnings and Rasputina Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and adopted by a graphic designer and physicist, Creager was raised in Emporia, Kansas. She started studying music at the age of 5, and at age 9 began playing the cello. As a child she was also a member of the Wichita Youth Symphony. Though she briefly quit playing in her teen years, after Creager moved to the east coast to attend Philadelphia College of Art and Parsons School of Design, she was convinced by friends to take it up again. In the late 1980s she played with the New York indie rock band Ultra Vivid Scene. In 1991, Creager founded alternative cello ensemble Rasputina by writing a manifesto and placing a want-ad in the Village Voice stating "electric cellists wanted". Cellist/composer Julia Kent was the first respondent. Rasputina performed regularly at NYC venues su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melora A La Basilica
''Melora a la Basilica'' is a 1000 unit collector's edition live recording made by American cello rock band Rasputina in Basilica Industria in Hudson, NY, "a behemoth of a defunct glue factory". It is a collection of previous Rasputina songs reworked with new second chair cellist Daniel DeJesus and covers of songs by Goldfrapp, Pearl Jam and the '' Sweeney Todd'' and ''A Clockwork Orange'' soundtracks. The sound and atmosphere of the record was patterned after the recitals given earlier in the year by Creager and DeJesus. Track listing # "Clowns" ( Goldfrapp) – 4:12 # "American Girl" (Tom Petty) – 2:56 # " Wicked Dickie" (Adapted from "If It Wasn't for Dicky" by Lead Belly) – 2:28 # "I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper" ( ''A Clockwork Orange'') – 1:03 # "Rose K." – 2:56 # "Why Don't You Do Right?" ( Kansas Joe McCoy) – 1:59 # "Rusty the Skatemaker" – 3:28 # "Green Finch/Johanna" ('' Sweeney Todd'') – 3:39 # "Girl Lunar Explorer" – 3:43 # " Soon Forget" (Pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Cross-Dressing Songs
''Ancient Cross-Dressing Songs'' is a 2009 EP by Rasputina. The album contains 3 ancient folksongs about female-to-male crossdressers. It also features a personal message from the band's front woman, Melora Creager. Much like their two previous EPs, Melora a la Basilica and The Willow Tree Triptych, the album is available only via the band's website and is hand-crafted by Creager herself. Of the decision in not using the distribution services of a record label, she opines that, Track listing Album details *Original Release Date: 2009 *Label: none *Recording Mode: Stereo *Recording Type: Studio *Producer: Melora Creager *Distributor: ''self-distributed'' *Rasputina: Melora Creager Melora Creager (born March 25, 1966) is an American cello, cellist, singer-songwriter, performing artist and founder of the rock band Rasputina (band), Rasputina. Early life, beginnings and Rasputina Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, M ... (cello, vocals) References 2009 EPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 EPs
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
