Rasputina
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Rasputina is a cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

-driven band based in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 that is renowned for their unconventional and quirky music style as well as their fascination with historical allegories and fashion, especially those pertaining to the Victorian era
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...

.

The group is fronted by cellist/vocalist Melora Creager
Melora Creager
Melora Creager, formerly Melora Mather, is an American cellist and singer-songwriter best known for her role as lead singer and chief composer of the cello rock trio Rasputina....

, who also writes all of the lyrics and creates art for the band's albums, singles, and website.

History

In 1989, Creager, wanting to form an all-cello band, placed an ad to find members. Julia Kent
Julia Kent
Julia Kent is a New York City-based, Canadian-born cellist who is best known as an original member of the all-cello group Rasputina, and later on as a member of Antony and the Johnsons....

 responded and the two formed the Traveling Ladies' Cello Society as a duo. Creager also toured with Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

 after they released In Utero. In 1991 (their official website claims "1891"), Creager and Kent expanded the group with members who attended the same nanny school in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 (which wasn't known until post-formation). They were then renamed "Rasputina" after one of Creager's songs. The group played shows and became a local favorite in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

. Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

' A&R
A&R
Artists and repertoire is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label.- Finding talent :...

 representative Jimmy Boyle saw the group perform at a festival, and they were then signed to the label.

In 1996, they released Thanks for the Ether
Thanks for the Ether
- Personnel :* Norm Block – Drums* Tracy Boychuk – Art Direction* Jimmy Boyle – Executive Producer, Producer* Michael Brauer – Mixing* Greg Calbi – Mastering* Melora Creager – Art Direction, Cello, Producer, Vocals* Greg Gordon – Engineer* Julia Kent – Cello...

. Rasputina toured with such bands as Bob Mould
Bob Mould
Robert Arthur "Bob" Mould is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s.-Early life:...

, Porno for Pyros
Porno for Pyros
Porno for Pyros was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1992, following the initial break-up of Jane's Addiction...

, Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson (band)
Marilyn Manson is an American metal band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Formed in 1989 by Brian Warner and Scott Putesky, the group was originally named Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids with their uniquely theatrical performances gathering a local cult following in the early '90s. This attention...

 and Les Claypool
Les Claypool
Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's playing style on the electric bass mixes tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends and slapping.Claypool has also self produced and engineered his...

. In 1997 the band released Transylvanian Regurgitations
Transylvanian Regurgitations
Transylvanian Regurgitations is an EP by Rasputina and remixed by Marilyn Manson which was released by in 1997 with Columbia Records. All songs by Melora Creager except track 6, Brand New Key by Melanie Safka.-Track listing:...

, a follow up EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 remixed by Manson
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson may refer to:* Marilyn Manson , an American rock musician* Marilyn Manson , the American rock band led by the singer of the same name...

 and Twiggy Ramirez.

On their second full-length album, How We Quit the Forest
How We Quit the Forest
-Credits and personnel:Rasputina* Melora Creager - Artwork, Cello, Producer, Vocals* Julia Kent - Cello* Agnieszka Rybska - CelloProduction and personnel* Chris Vrenna - Drums, Producer, Programming* Critter - Engineer, Mixing...

, Rasputina signed on Chris Vrenna (from Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

) as their drummer and producer. He encouraged the group to go ahead with the distortion they had been experimenting with. He provided electronic drums and sound effects.

Rasputina went through several line-up changes. Lisa Haney performed as third chair cellist before the group signed to Columbia. "Carpella Parvo" was credited as the third cellist on Thanks for the Ether, but Creager has since admitted that Carpella never existed, and her name was a play-on-words joke representing the carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is an entrapment idiopathic median neuropathy, causing paresthesia, pain, and other symptoms in the distribution of the median nerve due to its compression at the wrist in the carpal tunnel. The pathophysiology is not completely understood but can be considered compression...

 that Kent and Creager developed after playing all the second chair parts. Agnieszka Rybska performed on How We Quit the Forest. She temporarily left the band in 1998 due to pregnancy.

Drummer Perry L. James toured with the Rasputina in 1998-1999. Julia Kent
Julia Kent
Julia Kent is a New York City-based, Canadian-born cellist who is best known as an original member of the all-cello group Rasputina, and later on as a member of Antony and the Johnsons....

 left during the four-year hiatus between How We Quit the Forest and 2002's Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever (Rasputina album)
Cabin Fever is the third studio album of Rasputina released in 2002 with Instinct Records. It is noteworthy for its use of industrial influences, particularly the distorted cello.-Track listing:#"Gingerbread Coffin" - 3:43#"Thimble Island" - 2:41...

, which was released on Moby
Moby
Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

's label Instinct Records
Instinct Records
Instinct Records is a New York City electronic-music record label that first gained prominence in 1990. It is best-known for releasing much of Moby's early work. The label has several sublabels, which include Evolver, Instinct Ambient, Kickin Records USA, Liquid Music, Shadow Records, and Sonic...

. In 2004, they released a follow-up album, Frustration Plantation
Frustration Plantation
Frustration Plantation, the fourth studio album recorded by cello-dominated rock group Rasputina, was released by Instinct Records on March 16, 2004...

, which featured Zoë Keating
Zoë Keating
Zoë Keating is a Canadian-born cellist and composer based in San Francisco, California.In her solo performances and recordings , she uses live electronic sampling and repetition in order to layer the sound of her cello, creating rhythmically dense musical structures...

, who left the band in 2006. Upon her departure, Creager's ensemble consisted of her and Jonathon TeBeest
Jonathon TeBeest
Jonathon S. TeBeest is an American drummer, born and raised in Montevideo, Minnesota best known for his work in the cello-based group Rasputina. He was a member of the band from 2002 - 2008 and previously been associated with the act 3 Minute Hero where he garnered the nickname "ATHENS-manservant"...

. Ex-Graces cellist Stephanie McVey occupied second chair from September 2006 to January 2007. Sarah Bowman rejoined Rasputina on their spring 2007 tour of the U.S.

In 2008, Bowman and TeBeest left the band and were replaced by second chair cellist Daniel DeJesus and drummer Catie D'Amica.

In summer 2010, a documentary was made about Rasputina called Under the Corset by Dawn Miceli. In January 2011 Melora Creager announced in The Dawn and Drew Show
The Dawn and Drew Show
The Dawn and Drew Show is a podcast starring and produced by a married couple, Dawn Miceli and Drew Domkus . They just recently celebrated their 7th podcast anniversary. The couple moved back to their farmhouse in Wayne, WI after being robbed and nearly killed in their home in Cocles, Costa Rica...

that Dawn Miceli will be playing the drums on the February 2011 tour.

Albums

  • Thanks for the Ether
    Thanks for the Ether
    - Personnel :* Norm Block – Drums* Tracy Boychuk – Art Direction* Jimmy Boyle – Executive Producer, Producer* Michael Brauer – Mixing* Greg Calbi – Mastering* Melora Creager – Art Direction, Cello, Producer, Vocals* Greg Gordon – Engineer* Julia Kent – Cello...

    - Columbia Records, 1996
  • How We Quit the Forest
    How We Quit the Forest
    -Credits and personnel:Rasputina* Melora Creager - Artwork, Cello, Producer, Vocals* Julia Kent - Cello* Agnieszka Rybska - CelloProduction and personnel* Chris Vrenna - Drums, Producer, Programming* Critter - Engineer, Mixing...

    - Columbia Records, 1998
  • Cabin Fever
    Cabin Fever (Rasputina album)
    Cabin Fever is the third studio album of Rasputina released in 2002 with Instinct Records. It is noteworthy for its use of industrial influences, particularly the distorted cello.-Track listing:#"Gingerbread Coffin" - 3:43#"Thimble Island" - 2:41...

    - Instinct Records, 2002
  • Frustration Plantation
    Frustration Plantation
    Frustration Plantation, the fourth studio album recorded by cello-dominated rock group Rasputina, was released by Instinct Records on March 16, 2004...

    - Instinct Records, 2004
  • Oh Perilous World
    Oh Perilous World
    Standard Edition bonus tracks# "The Question of Time" - 2:39# "Identity Tokens" - 4:54# "The Humanized Mice" - 2:19# "The Pruning " - 4:17# "Flood Corps" - 1:36# "Incapable of Regret" - 2:02# "Desert Vampire" - 1:36...

    - Filthy Bonnet Co., 2007
  • Sister Kinderhook
    Sister Kinderhook
    -Critical reception:Ned Raggett of Allmusic commented "Released in a year when Joanna Newsom made her own most sprawling artistic statement to date, it's become all the easier to see how Creager and Rasputina served as a touchstone for many who followed. The lyrical focus of Sister Kinderhook is...

    - Filthy Bonnet Co., June 15, 2010

Live albums

  • A Radical Recital
    A Radical Recital
    A Radical Recital is a live recording of a Rasputina recital held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Halloween, 2004 . It contains songs from the previous Rasputina albums, and lead singer Melora Creager's spoken introductions...

    - Filthy Bonnet Co., 2005
  • Melora a la Basilica
    Melora a la Basilica
    Melora a la Basilica is a 1000 unit collector's edition live recording made by chamber-rock trio 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 band member Daniel DeJesus and covers of songs by...

    - 2008
  • The Pregnant Concert
    The Pregnant Concert
    The Pregnant Concert is a live recording of a recital by American cello rock band Rasputina held at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on September 13, 2009...

    with artwork by Dese'Rae L. Stage - May 10, 2010.

Compilations

  • Great American Gingerbread
    Great American Gingerbread: Rasputina Rarities & Neglected Items
    Great American Gingerbread: Rasputina Rarities & Neglected Items is a limited collector's edition compilation album by American cello rock band Rasputina...

    - Filthy Bonnet Recording Co., 2011

Singles and EPs

  • Transylvanian Regurgitations
    Transylvanian Regurgitations
    Transylvanian Regurgitations is an EP by Rasputina and remixed by Marilyn Manson which was released by in 1997 with Columbia Records. All songs by Melora Creager except track 6, Brand New Key by Melanie Safka.-Track listing:...

    - Columbia Records, 1997
  • The Olde HeadBoard - Columbia Records, 1998
  • The Lost & Found
    The Lost & Found
    The Lost & Found is an EP record by Rasputina, the first edition of which was self-released in 2001 and the second edition released in 2003 by Instinct Records...

     (1st Edition)
    - RPM Records, 2001
  • My Fever Broke
    My Fever Broke
    My Fever Broke is an EP by Rasputina, released in 2002 on Instinct Records. The track "The Fox in the Snow" is a Belle and Sebastian cover.-Track listing:# "At the State Fair With a White Trash Sucker" – 4:36# "SweetWaterKill " – 4:08...

    - Instinct Records, 2002
  • The Lost and Found, 2nd Edition - Instinct Records, 2003
  • The Willow Tree Triptych
    The Willow Tree Triptych
    -Album details:*Original Release Date: 2009*Label: none*Recording Mode: Stereo*Recording Type: Studio*Producer: Melora Creager*Distributor: self-distributed*Rasputina: Melora Creager...

    - Extremely limited by Melora, 2009
  • Ancient Cross-Dressing Songs
    Ancient Cross-Dressing Songs
    -Album details:*Original Release Date: 2009*Label: none*Recording Mode: Stereo*Recording Type: Studio*Producer: Melora Creager*Distributor: self-distributed*Rasputina: Melora Creager...

    - Extremely limited by Melora, 2009

Promotional

  • Transylvanian Concubine/The Vaulted Eel, Lesson#6 - Oculus Records 1993
  • Three (3) - (promo), 1996
  • Three Lil' Nothin's - (promo), 1996
  • Transylvanian Regurgitations
    Transylvanian Regurgitations
    Transylvanian Regurgitations is an EP by Rasputina and remixed by Marilyn Manson which was released by in 1997 with Columbia Records. All songs by Melora Creager except track 6, Brand New Key by Melanie Safka.-Track listing:...

    - Columbia Records, 1997

Videos

  • Under the Corset - Documentary, 2010
  • Great American Gingerbread - Combination of CD rarities, including a DVD of live performances at The Knitting Factory, 2011

Misc

  • "Transylvanian Concubine" on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album is a soundtrack album featuring music from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.The album is made up mostly of tracks by little-known artists, though some better known ones, such as Garbage and Alison Krauss, are also featured. A small part of the television...

    soundtrack. (The song was featured in the episode "Surprise".)
  • "Transylvanian Concubine" on The Black Bible, a four-disc compilation album released by Cleopatra Records
    Cleopatra Records
    Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label.- History :Founded in 1992 by Brian Perera, it specializes in gothic rock, hard rock, heavy metal and reissues of out-of-print music...

    . (October 27, 1998) http://www.discogs.com/release/431695
  • Our Lies - 2001
  • "Hunter's Kiss" on the compilation album 12 Tales in 2002
  • "Coraline
    Coraline
    Coraline is a horror/fantasy novella by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers...

    " on the Neil Gaiman
    Neil Gaiman
    Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

     tribute album Where's Neil When You Need Him?
    Where's Neil When You Need Him?
    Where's Neil When You Need Him? is a tribute album based on the works of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman.-Overview:The album was released on Dancing Ferret Discs on July 18, 2006. The CD has cover art by Dave McKean and extensive new liner notes from Neil Gaiman.The album's title was taken from the song...

    Dancing Ferret in 2006
  • "A Skeleton Bang" on the charity album Colours Are Brighter
    Colours Are Brighter
    Colours Are Brighter is a charity record which was released on Rough Trade Records on 16 October 2006, all proceeds going to Save the Children...

    in 2006
  • "Warbots" on the compilation album Asleep By Dawn Club Mix #2 released by Dancing Ferrets Records

Song inspirations

Creager is a self-proclaimed history buff and often bases Rasputina's lyrics on said history.

Some of these include:
  • Thanks for the Ether
    Thanks for the Ether
    - Personnel :* Norm Block – Drums* Tracy Boychuk – Art Direction* Jimmy Boyle – Executive Producer, Producer* Michael Brauer – Mixing* Greg Calbi – Mastering* Melora Creager – Art Direction, Cello, Producer, Vocals* Greg Gordon – Engineer* Julia Kent – Cello...

    • "My Little Shirtwaist Fire" is based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
      Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
      The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history...

       of 1911.
    • "The Donner Party" discusses the Donner Party
      Donner Party
      The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada...

      , a group of American pioneers traveling to California who encountered a series of mishaps and resorted to cannibalism. The track compares them to the colonial pilgrims.
    • "Howard Hughes
      Howard Hughes
      Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world...

      " is about legendary aviator.
  • How We Quit the Forest
    How We Quit the Forest
    -Credits and personnel:Rasputina* Melora Creager - Artwork, Cello, Producer, Vocals* Julia Kent - Cello* Agnieszka Rybska - CelloProduction and personnel* Chris Vrenna - Drums, Producer, Programming* Critter - Engineer, Mixing...

    • "Rose K." is about the matriarch of the Kennedy family, who had a stroke at age 94 and was cared for at the Kennedy Compound
      Kennedy Compound
      The Kennedy Compound or Hyannis Port Historic District is the name given to six acres of waterfront property on Cape Cod along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, United States....

       by private nurses and staff. Although Melora jokingly refers to this as her "Alzheimer's Song" on A Radical Recital, Rose was not known to have suffered from Alzheimer's disease. In concert, Melora also frequently introduces the song by referring to Rose's decision to have her daughter Rosemary Kennedy
      Rosemary Kennedy
      Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kennedy was the third child and first daughter of Rose Elizabeth Kennedy née Fitzgerald and Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr., born little more than a year after her brother, future U.S. President John F. Kennedy...

       lobotomized
      Lobotomy
      Lobotomy "; τομή – tomē: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy . It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain...

       at the age of 23, to calm her alleged mood swings.
    • "Herb Girls of Birkenau" describes the victims of human experiments in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, from the point of view of a powerless witness.
    • "Diamond Mind" is a satire inspired by the music of a De Beere diamond commercial that uses music composed by Karl Jenkins
      Karl Jenkins
      -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...

      , which he later used as a theme of the orchestral piece Palladio (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Palladio.ogg ).
  • Cabin Fever
    Cabin Fever (Rasputina album)
    Cabin Fever is the third studio album of Rasputina released in 2002 with Instinct Records. It is noteworthy for its use of industrial influences, particularly the distorted cello.-Track listing:#"Gingerbread Coffin" - 3:43#"Thimble Island" - 2:41...

    • "Rats" is about the 16th century decision by the then Pope to declare the semi-aquatic capybara
      Capybara
      The capybara , also known as capivara in Portuguese, and capibara, chigüire in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador ronsoco in Peru, chigüiro, and carpincho in Spanish, is the largest living rodent in the world. Its closest relatives are agouti, chinchillas, coyphillas, and guinea pigs...

       as fish for Catholics to eat during lent.
  • Poor Relations in the Shed Out Back (Frustration Plantation
    Frustration Plantation
    Frustration Plantation, the fourth studio album recorded by cello-dominated rock group Rasputina, was released by Instinct Records on March 16, 2004...

     bonus disc)
    • "Yellow Fever" is about an outbreak of yellow fever
      Yellow fever
      Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family....

       in New Orleans in the summer of 1853.
  • Oh Perilous World
    Oh Perilous World
    Standard Edition bonus tracks# "The Question of Time" - 2:39# "Identity Tokens" - 4:54# "The Humanized Mice" - 2:19# "The Pruning " - 4:17# "Flood Corps" - 1:36# "Incapable of Regret" - 2:02# "Desert Vampire" - 1:36...

    • "1816, The Year Without a Summer" is about the Little Ice Age
      Little Ice Age
      The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period . While not a true ice age, the term was introduced into the scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939...

      . The year 1816 had an unusual weather pattern (due to the volcano Mount Tambora
      Mount Tambora
      Mount Tambora is an active stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and Tambora was formed by the active subduction zone beneath it. This raised Mount Tambora as high as , making it...

       erupting) and was known as the Year Without a Summer
      Year Without a Summer
      The Year Without a Summer was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures to decrease by about 0.4–0.7 °C , resulting in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere...

      . The song also makes mention of author Mary Shelley
      Mary Shelley
      Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...

       writing her famous novel Frankenstein
      Frankenstein
      Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

      , Freemasons
      Freemasonry
      Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge...

       and Benjamin Franklin
      Benjamin Franklin
      Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...

      .
    • "Choose Me For Champion" is about islanders' sufferings due to Western European invasions and mentions Thursday October Christian
      Thursday October Christian
      Thursday October Christian may refer to:*Thursday October Christian I , son of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and his wife Mauatua*Thursday October Christian II , his son, magistrate of Pitcairn Island...

      .
    • "Cage in a Cave" is about Thursday Christian's father, Fletcher Christian
      Fletcher Christian
      Fletcher Christian was a master's mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants...

      , an 18th century man who was part of the Mutiny on the Bounty
      Mutiny on the Bounty
      The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny that occurred aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789, and has been commemorated by several books, films, and popular songs, many of which take considerable liberties with the facts. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the...

       in Tahiti
      Tahiti
      Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...

      .
    • "Incident in a Medical Clinic" is about the disease Schistosomiasis
      Schistosomiasis
      Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by several species of trematodes , a parasitic worm of the genus Schistosoma. Snails often act as an intermediary agent for the infectious diseases until a new human host is found...

       (also known as Snail-fever).
    • "Child Soldier Rebellion" makes mention of the Lord's Resistance Army
      Lord's Resistance Army
      The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing guerrilla campaign waged since 1987 by the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, operating mainly in northern Uganda, but also in South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo...

       in Uganda
      Uganda
      Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

      's usage of children as soldiers.
    • "Oh Bring Back the Egg Unbroken" is about the Tangata manu
      Tangata manu
      The Tangata manu , was the winner of a traditional competition on Rapa Nui . The ritual was an annual competition to collect the first Sooty Tern egg of the season from the islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui and climb the sea cliff of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo.-Myth:In the...

       competition of the inhabitants from Easter Island
      Easter Island
      Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...

      .
    • "We Stay Behind" is about the people who stayed behind in New Orleans during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. An article from the AP
      Associated Press
      The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

       by Allen G. Breed exclaims, "I've never even had a nightmare or a beautiful dream about this," about watching the warehouses burn. "People are just not themselves."

In popular culture

  • The Dead Milkmen have released a song titled "Melora Says" which is about some of the themes covered in Rasputina's music.

External links

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