A customer sold pretty much the entire Rapoon discography to the store the other day. To say I was geeked would be an understatement. I’d discovered Robin Storey (co-founder of Zoviet France, sole entity responsible for Rapoon) via Just Say The Faith, which was a 12″ I found for $2 at an LA record store three or four years ago. I’ve been smitten ever since, trying to capture every recording Storey has released on various labels, from Staalplaat to Soleilmoon and beyond. So when this guy walked in with a dozen or more CDs, I knew I had to have them. It was fate.
Released in 1998 by Release Entertainment (RR 6978-2), this features a lot more tribal percussive elements than some of his earlier technology-infused ambient releases. It retains the vastness, the desolation, the rolling and powerful drone aspects that make Storey’s oeuvre so arresting. When pressured I am hardpressed to think of an artist who has better-mastered the art of experimental/ambient recordings on such a consistent basis.
The CD includes a gatefold insert which contains liner notes:
“Time had no meaning. It was gone. The dust of it lay at my feet, disturbed now and again by strange winds that eddied around the ancient rocks I stood upon. The sky if one could call it that, threw fitful spasms of light and dark. The fires of the borderlands.”
Sounds like a Mekong Delta Blues entry, no!?
Rapoon
The Fires Of The Borderlands
(Release, 1998)
MediaFire DL Link
01. Hollow Flight
02. Groundswell
03. Cires Divam
04. Snake Of Earth
05. Omaneska
06. Deserted Shadows
07. Looking… Not Finding
08. Circling Globes
09. Talking To A Stick
10. Still, So Still
11. A Softer Light
