Raison d'être (band)

Raison d'être
Origin Sweden
Genres Dark ambient
Years active Since 1992
Labels Cold Meat Industry
Website [1]
Members
Peter Andersson

Raison d'être is a Swedish industrial ambient music project formed by Peter Andersson. The name of the band was taken from a sentence in a book by Carl Gustav Jung: "the individuation is the raison d’être of the self".[1] Dark ambient atmospheres, drone elements, industrial sounds, ecclesiastical hymns are all blended together to constitute the music of Raison d'être. Deeply influenced by the writings of C.G.Jung, Raison d'être explores the depths of human psyche providing soundtracks for inner voyages towards the Tragic.

The music produced by Raison d'être is variously darkwave, dark ambient, and soundscape in nature. For example, synthesizers might play a droning melody over the sound of metal scraping together. Andersson often mixes tapes of Gregorian chant with his own keyboard and percussion playing.

Discography

  • Après nous le Déluge (Cassette, 1992)
  • Prospectus I (CD, 1993)
  • Sacral Wounds (VHS, 1994)
  • The Ring of Isvarah (Cassette, 1994)
  • Conspectus (Cassette, 1994)
  • Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness (CD, 1994)
  • Semblance (Cassette, 1995)
  • Within the Depth of Silence and Phormations (CD, 1995)
  • In Sadness, Silence and Solitude (CD, 1997)
  • Reflections from the Time of Opening (CD, 1997)
  • Lost Fragments (CD-R, 1998)
  • Collective Archives (CD, 1999)
  • The Empty Hollow Unfolds (CD, 2000)
  • Lost Fragments (CD, 2002)
  • Requiem for Abandoned Souls (CD, 2003)
  • Reflections from the Time of Opening (Re-Issue) (CD, 2005)
  • Prospectus I (re-mix) (Cassette, 2005)
  • In Sadness, Silence and Solitude (Re-Issue) (CD, 2006)
  • Metamorphyses (CD, 2006)
  • Live Archive 1 (FLAC/MP3, 2007)
  • Live Archive 2 (FLAC/MP3, 2007)
  • Enthraled by the Wind of Lonelienes (re-mix) (FLAC/MP3, 2007)
  • Live Archive 3 (FLAC/MP3, 2008)
  • Aprés nous le Déluge (MP3, 2008)
  • The Luminous Experience (Live in Enschede 2008) (CD, 2008)
  • The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice (CD, 2009)

References

  1. ^ "Soundart from the Cold Lands... A conversation with Peter Andersson of Raison d'être". - IKonen magazine, 2004

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