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
Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philo ...
: "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
Drone most commonly refers to:
* Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg
* Unmanned aerial vehicle
* Unmanned surface vehicle, watercraft
* Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone
Drone, drones or The Drones may also refer to:
...
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
A soundscape is the acoustic environment as perceived by humans, in context. The term was originally coined by Michael Southworth, and popularised by R. Murray Schafer. There is a varied history of the use of soundscape depending on discipline, r ...
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)
: ''Prospectus I (Redux)'' (2xCD, 2013)
* ''Sakral Wounds'' (VHS, 1994)
* ''The Ring of Isvarah'' (Cassette, 1994)
* ''Conspectus'' (Cassette, 1994)
* ''Enthraled by the Wind of Lonelienes'' (CD, 1994)
: ''Enthraled by the Wind of Lonelienes (Re-mix)'' (FLAC/MP3, 2007)
: ''Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness (Redux)'' (CD, 2013)
* ''Semblance'' (Cassette, 1995)
* ''Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations'' (CD, 1995)
: ''Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations (Redux)'' (2xCD, 2013)
* ''In Sadness, Silence and Solitude'' (CD, 1997)
: ''In Sadness, Silence and Solitude (Re-Issue)'' (CD, 2006)
: ''In Sadness, Silence and Solitude (Expanded)'' (2xCD, 2014)
: ''In Sadness, Silence and Solitude (Expanded Special Edition)'' (2xCD+7", 2014)
* ''Reflections from the Time of Opening'' (CD, 1997)
: ''Reflections from the Time of Opening (Re-Issue)'' (CD, 2005)
* ''Lost Fragments'' (CD-R, 1998)
: ''Lost Fragments'' (2xCD, 2002)
* ''Collective Archives'' (2xCD, 1999)
* ''The Empty Hollow Unfolds'' (CD, 2000)
: ''The Empty Hollow Unfolds (Expanded)'' (2xCD, 2014)
: ''The Empty Hollow Unfolds (Special Expanded)'' (3xCD, 2014)
* ''Requiem for Abandoned Souls'' (CD, 2003)
: ''Requiem for Abandoned Souls (Expanded'' (2xCD, 2014)
* ''Metamorphyses'' (CD, 2006)
: ''Metamorphyses (Expanded)'' (2xCD, 2014)
* ''Live Archive 1'' (FLAC/MP3, 2007)
* ''Live Archive 2'' (FLAC/MP3, 2007)
* ''Live Archive 3'' (FLAC/MP3, 2008)
* ''The Luminous Experience (Live in Enschede 2008)'' (CD, 2008)
* ''The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice'' (CD, 2009)
: ''The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice (Expanded)'' (2xCD, 2012)
: ''The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice (Special Expanded)'' (3xCD, 2012)
* ''Live Archive'' (3xCD, 2010)
* ''When the Earth Dissolves in Ashes'' (CD, 2012)
* ''Collected Works'' (CD, 2013)
* ''Mise en Abyme'' (CD, 2014); see
Mise en abyme
In Western art history, ''mise en abyme'' (; also ''mise en abîme'') is a formal technique of placing a copy of an image within itself, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence. In film theory and literary theory, it refers t ...
for the meaning of this title in broader cultural terms.
* ''Feasting in Valhalla'' (CD, 2014)
* ''Tales from the Tabula Rasa (Early Works 1988-1991)'' (2xCD, 2014)
* ''De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu'' (Troum and Raison d'Être) (CD, 2015)
* ''Alchymeia '' (CD, 2018)
References
External links
Raison d'être official websitePeter Andersson official websiteDiscogs: raison d'êtreBandcamp: raison d'être
{{DEFAULTSORT:Raison d'etre (band)
Swedish industrial music groups
Swedish electronic music groups
Musical groups established in 1992
Swedish dark ambient music groups