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raison d’être (french for “reason to be”) is the name of a Swedish dark ambient musical project, whose sole member has always been Peter Andersson. (Not to be confused with another identically-named individual making music in a similar vein, under the name Deutsch Nepal.)
The music produced by raison d’être is chiefly dreamlike dark ambient soundscapes, with industrial touches. For example, synthesizers might play a droning melody over the sounds of metal on metal. Andersson often mixes Gregorian chants with his own keyboard and percussion playing.
Official website: http://raison-detre.info/
The music produced by raison d’être is chiefly dreamlike dark ambient soundscapes, with industrial touches. For example, synthesizers might play a droning melody over the sounds of metal on metal. Andersson often mixes Gregorian chants with his own keyboard and percussion playing.
Official website: http://raison-detre.info/
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Requiem for Abandoned Souls
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Prospectus I
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Collective Archives (disc 2)
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The Empty Hollow Unfolds
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patryxdeth wrote:
I love "The Verge of Somnolence", "The Mournful Wounds", and the beginning of "The Slow Ascent"...
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EverythingInane wrote:
"The Temple is Eternal Sacred" ... I think this is quite possibly my favorite Raison song of all. Does anyone agree? Who else has a special favorite?
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Paulius_AFC wrote:
Definitely one of the best dark ambient projects I've ever listened to.
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HELLFEST wrote:
enveloping music
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hunazazel wrote:
We do have a confirmed date for WtEDiA: Next out from COLD MEAT INDUSTRY January - March: cmi.213 raison d'être - When the Earth Dissolves in Ashes CD
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free_radicals wrote:
Great thanks very much, I really appreciate it. Dark ambient is getting me through the shitty days.
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andi_freeborn wrote:
"The Empty Hollow Unfolds" is my favourite. But I guess any of "Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations", "In Sadness, Silence And Solitude", "Requiem For Abandoned Souls" or "The Stains Of The Embodied Sacrifice" would be more or less as good for a start. They are all great albums
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free_radicals wrote:
I want to buy some Raison Detre, I think this is some some of the best dark ambient I've ever heard. However, they have such a expansive discography - where should I start?
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EverythingInane wrote:
Here's some raison d'etre art for you, my fellow lost souls: http://bengoodspeed.com/circadian/?p=30
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stageginger wrote:
News: CMI213 raison d’être – When the Earth dissolves in Ashes (CD) When ??? They even couldnt release Dahlia's Tear ????
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Nirvana_inme wrote:
"MISTER ANDERSSON. ............. Do you hear that? That.. is the sound.. of inevitability. It is the sound of your death. " вот вот.. какие мысли кроме уныния, тоски и смерти может навевать данная музыка? Восприятие крайне утрировано, и как мне показалось, однобоко. В таком случае, лучше лишний раз cходить на улицу, под вечер, куда нибудь подальше от города и просто послушать окружающий мир. При этом при желании держать в одном ухе какой хороший индастриал/ambient/black .. ощущений поболее будет. имхо
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Hexoctahedron wrote:
Russian ambient project Monotone is available for listening and free download.
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shorty427 wrote:
ahh, it's been too long
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Sghor wrote:
http://snowytensionpole.com/06-eng.html Aairria - Music For Suicides The first album of its kind in Snowy Tension Pole. We are proud to present dark ambient exactly as resounds in background of snow-covered electricity pylons. When I was planning my suicide, every seem-to-be dead thing appeared to talk to me encouragingly. Even the littlest dust on a carpet was telling me to end my life. It's not like we wanted to run away, it seemed to us, that it's the only way to break free. But, most of all, we wanted to live, it's a paradox. We wanted to live, but it wasn't able to exist normally. Counting now not minutes but hours, actually counting down, all the time the same thought, no matter he have been and what have he done in his life. It was never our life, that means mine. Therefore, the solution had to be that drastic. To break myself free from myself.
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Jack_DogTired wrote:
dude is my mates cousin. he stinks of B.O
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moe_blunts wrote:
The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice is absolutely gorgeous.
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Kazuzu wrote:
Gotta love the haunting atmospheres.
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Sghor wrote:
GREAT DARK AMBIENT LABEL! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Snowy-Tension-Pole/157032461034011?sk=app_182222305144028
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EverythingInane wrote:
MISTER ANDERSSON. ............. Do you hear that? That.. is the sound.. of inevitability. It is the sound of your death.
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Metamorphyses Phase I
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Pharynx (1994)
News
News release 2009
19 Nov 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/detreraison
raison detre - 'The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice' CD 2009
NEW ALBUM. raison detre 'The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice' on
Cold Meat Industry. Release date 2nd of December. A teaser is
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10 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/detreraison
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