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{{Short description|British experimental and ambient music project}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name                = Rapoon
| spinoff_of          = [[Zoviet France]]
| image               = 
| caption             = 
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| background          = group_or_band
| origin              = [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], England
| genre               = {{ hlist | [[Ambient music|Ambient]] | [[Electronic music|Electronic]] | [[Experimental music|Experimental]] }}
| years_active        = 1992–present
| label               = {{ hlist | [[Staalplaat]] | [[Soleilmoon]] | Ewers Tonkunst | [[Lens Records|Lens]] | Aquarellist | [[Relapse Records|Relapse]] }}
| website             = [http://www.rapoon.org/ rapoon.org]
| current_members     = Robin Storey
|}}

'''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 Records|Manifold]], [[Beta-lactam Ring Records|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.<ref name="wire_133">{{cite magazine |last1=Herrington  |first1=Tony |title=Rapoon |magazine=The Wire |date=March 1995 |issue=133 |page=11 |url=https://archive.org/details/the-wire-magazine-1995-03-cbz/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=London, UK |issn=0952-0686}}</ref> Storey chose the band name from a mispronunciation of his first name, "Robin", by his (then) 2-year old nephew.<ref name="monitor_49" />

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.<ref name="monitor_49">{{cite magazine |last1=Mantas |first1=Jorge |editor1-last=Paes |editor1-first=Rui Eduardo |title=Robin Storey: Entre os Zoviet France e os Rapoon |magazine=Monitor |date=September 1998 |volume=3 |issue=49 |pages=4–6 |url=https://archive.org/details/monitor-iii-serie-49-setembro-98/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=Lisbon |language=Portuguese}}</ref>

== Selected discography ==

* ''Dream Circle'', CD, 1992, DOVentertainment (DOVeCD244)
* ''Raising Earthly Spirits'', CD, 1993, [[Staalplaat]] (S.T. CD 063); CD, 1999, [[Soleilmoon Recordings|Soleilmoon]] (SOL 65 CD)
* ''Vernal Crossing'', CD, 1993, Staalplaat (S.T. CD 082)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Bell |first1=Clive |editor1-last=Herrington |editor1-first=Tony |title=Rapoon  Vernal Crossing |magazine=The Wire |date=November 1994 |issue=129 |pages=56–57 |url=https://archive.org/details/the-wire-magazine-1994-11-cbz/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=London, UK |issn=0952-0686}}</ref>
* ''Fallen Gods'', CD, 1994, Staalplaat (S.T. CD 086)<ref name="indus_nation_12">{{cite magazine |author=Cipher |editor1-last=Valerio |editor1-first=Paul |title=Rapoon - Fallen Gods |magazine=[[Industrialnation]] |date=Spring 1996 |issue=12 |page=74 |location=Iowa City, IA |issn=1062-449X |publisher=Moon Mystique}}</ref>
* ''The Kirghiz Light'', 2CD, 1995, Staalplaat (S.T. CD 097)<ref>{{cite magazine |author1=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=RAPOON - The Kirghiz Light |magazine=Muzik Magazine |date=November 1995 |issue=6 |page=81 |url=https://archive.org/details/muzik-magazine-issue-006/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |publisher=IPC Magazines Ltd. |location=London, UK |issn=1358-541X}}</ref>
* ''Recurring (Dream Circle)'', CD, 1996, Soleilmoon (SOL 11 CD)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hopkins |first1=Simon |editor1-last=Herrington |editor1-first=Tony |title=Rapoon  Recurring (Dream Circle) |magazine=The Wire |date=August 1996 |issue=150 |page=54 |url=https://archive.org/details/the-wire-magazine-1996-08-cbz/page/n53/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=London, UK |issn=0952-0686}}</ref>
* ''Errant Angels'', CD, 1996, Soleilmoon (SOL 34 CD)<ref name="indus_nation_15">{{cite magazine |author=Ned |editor1-last=Valerio |editor1-first=Paul |title=Rapoon - The Kirghiz Light |magazine=[[Industrialnation]] |date=Summer 1997 |issue=15 |page=74–75 |url=https://archive.org/details/industrial-nation-15/page/n75/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |publisher=Moon Mystique |location=Chicago, IL |issn=1062-449X}}</ref>
* ''Darker by Light'', CD, 1996, Soleilmoon (SOL 36 CD)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Bradley |title=The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music |date=1997 |publisher=Billboard Books |location=New York |isbn=0-8230-7665-2 |page=180 |url=https://archive.org/details/billboardguideto0000smit/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref>
* ''Easterly 6 or 7'', CD, 1997, Staalplaat (S.T. CD 117)
* ''Messianic Ghosts'', CD, 1997, Syntactic (Sophie 17) Klanggalerie (2002, gg24), Aquarellist (2011, aquarel 18-11)
* ''Tin of Drum'', CD, 1998, Staalplaat (S.T. CD 130)<ref>{{cite magazine |author1=Szellemis |editor1-last=Mihály |editor1-first=Rácz |title=RAPOON Tin Of Drum (Staalplaat Soleilmoon) |magazine=Második Látás |date=1999 |issue=16 |page=93 |url=https://archive.org/details/masodik-latas-16-1999/page/91/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=Budapest |language=Hungarian}}</ref>
* ''The Fires of the Borderlands'', CD, 1998, [[Relapse Records]]/Release Entertainment (RR 6978-2)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Maclsaac |first1=Steve |editor1-last=McNeely |editor1-first=Jennifer |title=Rapoon -The Fires Of The Borderlands |magazine=Off Beat |date=September 1998 |issue=132 |page=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/offbeat-1998-09-sep-01/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=Victoria, BC}}</ref>
* ''Just Say the Faith'', LP, 1998, Soleilmoon (SOLV 6); CD, 2001, Soleilmoon (SOL 107 CD)<ref>{{cite magazine |author1=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |editor1-last=Tibor |editor1-first=Vizler |title=Rapoon: Just Say The Faith LP (Soleilmoon Recordings, 1998) |magazine=Straight Edge |date=October 1999 |issue=9 |page=57 |url=https://archive.org/details/straight-edge-09-1999/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=Hungary |language=Hungarian}}</ref>
* ''Navigating by Colour'', CD, 1999, Soleilmoon (SOL 71 CD)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Pinsent |first1=Ed |title=Rapoon - Navigating By Colour |magazine=The Sound Projector Music Magazine |date=April 2000 |issue=7 |pages=30–31 |url=https://archive.org/details/epinsent72_gmail_TSP7/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=London, UK}}</ref>
* ''What Do You Suppose? (The Alien Question)'', CD, 1999, Staalplaat (S.T. CD 141)
* ''Rapoon vs. Kinder Atom'' (with Kinder Atom), CD, 2000, Klanggalerie (gg17)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Beissert |first1=Tim |editor1-last=Wacker |editor1-first=Thomas |title=Rapoon vs. Kinder Atom s/t (CD) |magazine=Black Magazin |date=Summer 2000 |issue=20 |page=67 |url=https://archive.org/details/black-magazine-n20-2000/page/66/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=Darmstadt |language=German}}</ref>
* ''Cold War: Drum n Bass'', 2CD, 2001, Caciocavallo (CAD 7)
* ''Pell Mell'', 2002, CD, Staalplaat (S.T. CD 155)
* ''Rhiz'', 2002, CD, Klanggalerie (gg59)
* ''I Am a Foreigner'' CD, 2003, Caciocavallo (CAD 26)
* ''My Life as a Ghost'', 2004, CD, Klanggalerie (gg49)
* ''Alien Glyph Morphology'' DVD, 2005, Caciocavallo (CAV 30); 2x10", 2006, (CAL 30)
* ''Church Road'' CD, 2006, Tantric Harmonies (TANTRA X37)
* ''From Shadows Sleep'', 2006, CD, Essence Music (ESS006)
* ''Time Frost'' CD, 2007, Glacial Movements (GM 003)
* ''Obscure Objects of Desire'', 2008, CD, Vivo (vivo2008039CD)
* ''The Library of the Dead'', 2008, CD, Ewers Tonkunst (HHE 018 CD), Indiestate Distribution (IST 059 CD)
* ''Dark Rivers'', May 2009, CD, [[Lens Records]] (LENS0102)
* ''Melancholic Songs of the Desert'', 2009, CD, Soleilmoon (SOL 166 CD)
* ''Wasteland Raga'', 2009, CD, Aquarellist (aquarel 11-09)
* ''The Bush Prophet'', 2010, CD, Ewers Tonkunst (HHE 029 CD), Indiestate Distribution (IST 079 CD)
* ''Media Studies'', 2011, CD, Aquarellist (aquarel 17-11)
* ''Disappeared Redux'', 2012, CD, Zoharum (ZOHAR 029-2)
* ''Stray'', 2012, CD, Soleilmoon (SOL 181 CD)
* ''Cultural Forgeries'', 2014, CD, Alrealon Musique (ALRN058)

==Side projects==

* ''Oedipus Brain Foil'' 3xCD (with [[Randy Greif]] and [[Nigel Ayers]]), 1998, Soleilmoon (SOL 66 CD)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Mantas |first1=Jorge |editor1-last=Paes |editor1-first=Rui Eduardo |title=Randy Greif, Robin Storey & Nigel Ayers - Oedipus Brain Foil |magazine=Monitor |date=April 1999 |volume=3 |issue=55 |pages=16–17 |url=https://archive.org/details/monitor-iii-serie-55-abril-99/mode/2up?q=%22Rapoon%22 |access-date=1 May 2025 |location=Lisbon |language=Portuguese}}</ref>
* ''The World Turned Gingham'' CD (with Nigel Ayers, released under the name Hank & Slim) (Caciocavallo, 2000)
* ''About Breathing'' CD (with Victor Nubla), 2002, Caciocavallo (CAD 24)
* ''New Cult of the Sun Moon'' 2CD (with Black Faction), 2002, Soleilmoon (SOL 122 CD)

==External links==
*[https://rapoon.bandcamp.com/ Official website]
*[http://groups.google.com/group/rapoonlist/ Google Groups Mailing List]
*[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/rapoon-mn0000403076 Rapoon biography and discography on Allmusic.com]
*[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rapoon Rapoon discography on Discogs.com]

==References==
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[[Category:British electronic music groups]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1992]]
[[Category:British experimental musicians]]
[[Category:Soleilmoon artists]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Sunderland]]


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