Rapoon
Rapoon is a musical project of Robin Storey, a former member of Zoviet France, who has released material on notable independent labels such as Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Manifold, Beta-Lactam Ring, and Lens Records.
Storey began Rapoon in 1992, after the break up of Zoviet France, a group that he had been with since 1980. He used Rapoon as an opportunity to explore "ethnic musics" and other techniques that he didn't feel he could explore with his former band. Storey chose the band name from a mispronunciation of his first name, "Robin", by his 2-year old nephew.
Most recordings during the 1990s were released on Staalplaat and Soleilmoon, but during a tour in the United States in 1996, Storey met Matt Jacobson of Relapse Records which resulted in the release of The Fires of the Borderlands on the Relapse imprint, Release Entertainment.
Selected discography
Dream Circle, CD, 1992, DOVentertainment Raising Earthly Spirits, CD, 1993, Staalplaat ; CD, 1999, Soleilmoon Vernal Crossing, CD, 1993, Staalplaat Fallen Gods, CD, 1994, Staalplaat The Kirghiz Light, 2CD, 1995, Staalplaat Recurring , CD, 1996, Soleilmoon Errant Angels, CD, 1996, Soleilmoon Darker by Light, CD, 1996, Soleilmoon Easterly 6 or 7, CD, 1997, Staalplaat Messianic Ghosts, CD, 1997, Syntactic Klanggalerie, Aquarellist Tin of Drum, CD, 1998, Staalplaat The Fires of the Borderlands, CD, 1998, Relapse Records/Release Entertainment Just Say the Faith, LP, 1998, Soleilmoon ; CD, 2001, Soleilmoon Navigating by Colour, CD, 1999, Soleilmoon What Do You Suppose? , CD, 1999, Staalplaat Rapoon vs. Kinder Atom, CD, 2000, Klanggalerie Cold War: Drum n Bass, 2CD, 2001, Caciocavallo Pell Mell, 2002, CD, Staalplaat Rhiz, 2002, CD, Klanggalerie I Am a Foreigner CD, 2003, Caciocavallo My Life as a Ghost, 2004, CD, Klanggalerie Alien Glyph Morphology DVD, 2005, Caciocavallo ; 2x10", 2006, Church Road CD, 2006, Tantric Harmonies From Shadows Sleep, 2006, CD, Essence Music Time Frost CD, 2007, Glacial Movements Obscure Objects of Desire, 2008, CD, Vivo The Library of the Dead, 2008, CD, Ewers Tonkunst, Indiestate Distribution Dark Rivers, May 2009, CD, Lens Records Melancholic Songs of the Desert, 2009, CD, Soleilmoon Wasteland Raga, 2009, CD, Aquarellist The Bush Prophet, 2010, CD, Ewers Tonkunst, Indiestate Distribution Media Studies, 2011, CD, Aquarellist Disappeared Redux, 2012, CD, Zoharum Stray, 2012, CD, Soleilmoon Cultural Forgeries, 2014, CD, Alrealon Musique
Side projects
Oedipus Brain Foil 3xCD, 1998, Soleilmoon The World Turned Gingham CD About Breathing CD, 2002, Caciocavallo New Cult of the Sun Moon 2CD, 2002, Soleilmoon