Raison d'être
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Raison D'être (French for "reason to be") is the name of a Swedish band, whose sole member has always been Peter Andersson. This is not to be confused with another identically-named individual making music in a similar vein, under the band name Deutsch Nepal.
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
Albums
- Aprés nous le Déluge (Tape, 1992)
- Prospectus I (CD, 1993)
- Sacral Wounds (VHS, 1994)
- The Ring of Isvarah (Tape, 1994)
- Conspectus (Tape, 1994)
- Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness (CD, 1994)
- Semblance (Tape, 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 (CD, 2005)
- Prospectus I (Tape, 2005)
- In Sadness, Silence and Solitude (Re-Issue) (CD, 2006)
- Metamorphyses (CD, 2006)
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