Rapoon - Melancholic songs of the desert (2009)

These songs were composed during the last days of the Bush/Blair era and reflect RAPOON's feeling of isolation and disconnection from any part of the political process, plus a lack of identification with the prevailing air of hostility and intolerance generated by this pair of religious xenophobes. The war in Iraq and the subsequent lies and propaganda surrounding it engendered in them a feeling of revulsion and powerlessness. Once again it was "unpatriotic" to criticize or protest against the government's actions, and there was a rise in nationalism and extremist views.

These songs are a retreat into the one place that no government has yet found a way, the free and open spaces of the mind. They are spontaneous and meditative reflections looking for an inner peace in a world made ugly by hatred and war. They symbolize a kind of "walkabout" and a reconnection with a lost sense of belonging spiritually, intellectually and physically to the world we inhabit. In a broader sense they also re-affirm long held sympathies with the thoughts of writers and philosophers such as Camus, Sartre and Burroughs, and the profound wisdom of eastern philosophies such as Taoism and Zen.


1 Hollow Blow 4:45
2 An Empty Land 6:27
3 Mama's Got A Sitar 2:49
4 Hey…Drifting 5:37
5 The Promises 4:32
6 Last Twilight 4:18
7 Neon In The Sand 3:08
8 Radioactive 2:43
9 Mirror Sky 4:29
10 Don't Come Out At Night 9:35
11 Sun Call 3:28
12 Dream Dance 3:32
13 The Lies Of The Capitalist State 2:35
14 Shakkamman 6:16