Raison d'Etre

Raison d'?tre 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'?tre of the self".[1] Dark ambient atmospheres, drone elements, industrial sounds, ecclesiastical hymns are all blended together to constitute the music of Raison d'?tre. Deeply influenced by the writings of C.G.Jung, Raison d'?tre explores the depths of human psyche providing soundtracks for inner voyages towards the Tragic.

The music produced by Raison d'?tre 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 :

Apr?s nous le D?luge (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)
Apr?s nous le D?luge (MP3, 2008)
The Luminous Experience (Live in Enschede 2008) (CD, 2008)
The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice (CD, 2009)