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Oh Perilous World

Description: O O 0 0 Oh Perilous World is the sixth release by Rasputina, a singularly inventive outfit led by Melora Creager. A cellist herself, she creates a frontline of multiple cellos. Eschewing the faux-classical shenanigans of the Electric Light Orchestra, she welds the instruments with sensibilities that evoke everyone from Van Dyke Parks to Tom Waits. The album opens with the lines "In the spring of 1315 there began an era of unpredictable weather. It did not lift until 1851. You remember 1816 as the year without a summer." The dozen songs address the set's title with a mix of journalism and poetry. Creager draws direc ... (more)
Manufacturer: Filthy Bonnet
Release date: 26 June 2007
EAN: 0881626300329 UPC: 881626300329
Tags: Cello (1), Female Vocalist (1)
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