{"id":240,"date":"2011-02-11T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2011-02-11T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T13:36:06","slug":"rasputina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/rasputina\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasputina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rasputina is a wondefully uncategorizable band consisting of 3 cellists, based out of New York and led by Melora Creager. While they sometimes use a drummer, they mostly make a very psychedelic band meets chamber music on acid sound. With great use of effects and very interesting vocals by Creager, there is no question they exist in a genre all\u00a0their\u00a0own.<\/p>\n<p>I give you exhibit A:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y_BthNHkCD4]<\/p>\n<p>I first discovered Rasputina back in the mid 90s with their album Thanks For The Ether, which i wore out playing on the tape deck of my car. (cassettes!) Now of course they have graduated to these newfangled website thingies. You can find them at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasputina.com\/\">raspuntina.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hM0IzJiHwLg&amp;feature=related]<\/p>\n<p>Now normally, i restrict\u00a0myself\u00a0to 2 videos maximuum, but i really love this next track, AND i love the performance of the girl who\u00a0made\u00a0it, so today we go to 3.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jdyqlx77gKo]<\/p>\n<p>Before we go i would just point out they have new album coming out called Sister Kinderhoook, which so far sounds deliriously delightful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasputina is a wondefully uncategorizable band consisting of 3 cellists, based out of New York and led by Melora Creager. While they sometimes use a drummer, they mostly make a very psychedelic band meets chamber music on acid sound. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,69,112,244,258,315,348],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-band","tag-cello","tag-donner-party","tag-melora-creager","tag-music","tag-rasputina","tag-sister-kinderhook","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}