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Raison D'être (other)
is a French expression commonly used in English, meaning "reason for being" or "reason to be." ''Raison d'être'' may refer to: Music * Raison d'être (band), a Swedish dark-ambient-industrial-drone music project * Raison D'être (album), ''Raison D'être'' (album), an album by Australian jazz fusion guitarist Frank Gambale Songs * "Raison d'etre", a song by Asriel (band), Asriel from the album ''Abyss'' * "raison detre", a song by Japanese rock band Dir En Grey on the album ''Gauze (album), Gauze'' * "Raison d'etre", a song by Japanese rock band Nightmare (Japanese band), Nightmare used as opening theme of the anime ''Claymore'' * "Raison d'être", a song used as the ending theme of the Chobits anime by Japanese singer and voice actress Rie Tanaka * "Raison d'etre", a song by British rock band Buzzcocks from the album ''A Different Kind of Tension'' * "Raison d'être～交差する宿命～", a song by Tomosuke Funaki under the alias Zektbach for the arcade game ''beatmania IIDX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raison D'être (band)
Raison d'être is a Swedish dark ambient 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"."Soundart from the Cold Lands... A conversation with Peter Andersson of Raison d'être". ''IKonen'' magazine, 2004 Dark ambient atmospheres, drone elements, industrial sounds, ecclesiastical hymns are all blended together to constitute the music of Raison d'être. The music produced by Raison d'être is variously 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) : ''Aprés nous le Déluge'' (MP3, 2008) : ''Aprés nous le Déluge (Redux)'' (CD, 2012) * ''Prospectus I'' (CD, 1993) : ''Prospectus I (Re-mix)'' (Cassette, 2005) : ''Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |