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Raison D'être

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Origin: Sweden
Music styles: Dark Ambient, Industrial
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raison d'être (French for "reason to be") is a dark ambient project from Boxholm, Sweden, whose sole member has always been Peter Andersson.
Formed in 1991 as a tool of expression with the goal of self-realization and deeper knowledge of the inner Self. 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.
Discography by Raison D'être: 36 releases
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Solo Ansamblis - Scenos (2025)
VA - Arcanum Vol. 2 (2025)
Mercury's Antennae - Among The Black Trees (2025)
VA - Darkwave The 80s (The Dark Side Of Bristol) (2021)
Attic Frost - A Sad Thought Made Dance (2024)
Tsaffire - Magnificent Sadness (2025) [Single]
Ensemble Élitaire - Ras Dwa Tri (2025)
VNV Nation - Silence Speaks (2025) [Single]
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (2025) [Single Reissue]
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (2025) [Single Reissue]
VA - The Bristol Post Punk Explosion Vol. 2 (1979-1986) (2024)
Peter Murphy - The Artroom Wonder (2025) [Single]
Aesthetic Perfection - Beautiful (2025) [Single]
VA - The Bristol Post Punk Explosion Vol. 1 (1978-1982) (2024)
Solo Ansamblis - Scenos (2025)
VA - Arcanum Vol. 2 (2025)
Mercury's Antennae - Among The Black Trees (2025)
VA - Darkwave The 80s (The Dark Side Of Bristol) (2021)
Attic Frost - A Sad Thought Made Dance (2024)
Tsaffire - Magnificent Sadness (2025) [Single]
Ensemble Élitaire - Ras Dwa Tri (2025)
VNV Nation - Silence Speaks (2025) [Single]
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (2025) [Single Reissue]
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (2025) [Single Reissue]
VA - The Bristol Post Punk Explosion Vol. 2 (1979-1986) (2024)
Peter Murphy - The Artroom Wonder (2025) [Single]
Aesthetic Perfection - Beautiful (2025) [Single]
VA - The Bristol Post Punk Explosion Vol. 1 (1978-1982) (2024)
Raison D'être - Cambium (2025)
Raison D'être - Darkened Obscurities (Live At Magasin 4) (2024)
Raison D'être - Enthralled By The Wind Of Loneliness (Sublime Edition) (2024) [3CD]
Raison D'être - Prospectus I (Sublime Edition) (2023) [4CD]
Raison D'être - Daemonum + Daemoniacum (2021)
Raison D'être - Aprés Nous Le Dèluge (Trinity Edition) (2019)
Raison D'être - Anima Caelum (Alive 2014-2017) (2019) [2CD]
Raison D'être - Alchymeia (2018)
Raison D'être & Troum - XIBIPIIO. In And Out Of Experience (2017)
Troum & Raison D'être - De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu (2015) [2CD]
Raison D'être - The Empty Hollow Unfolds (Special Expanded Edition) (2014) [2CD]
Raison D'être - Tales From The Tabula Rasa (Early Works 1988-1991) (2014) [2CD]
Raison D'être - Requiem For Abandoned Souls (Expanded Edition) (2014) [2CD]
Raison D'être - Mise En Abyme (2014)
Raison D'être - Metamorphyses (Expanded Edition) (2014) [2CD]
Raison D'être - In Sadness, Silence And Solitude (Expanded Edition) (2014) [2CD + Vinyl]
Raison D'être - Feasting In Valhalla (2014)
Raison D'être - Live In Moscow (2013)
Raison D'être - Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations (Redux Version) (2013) [2CD]
Raison D'être - Prospectus I (Redux Version) (2013) [2CD]
Raison D'être - Enthralled By The Wind Of Loneliness (Redux Version) (2013)
Raison D'être - Collected Works (2013)
Raison D'être - When The Earth Dissolves In Ashes (Live 2010 - 2011) (2012)
Raison D'être - The Stains Of The Embodied Sacrifice (Expanded Edition) (2012) [3CD]
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