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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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Korine - A Flame In The Dark (2025)
VA - PLAISIRS INCONNUS Free Selected Tracks Compilation Pt. 1 (2025)
Wolfgang Flür - Times (2025)
Then Comes Silence - I Put A Spell On You (2025) [Single]
Ist Ist - On Fire (2025)
NLiGHT - Dolor Animae (2025)
Scheitan - Heaven Tonight (2025) [Single]
blood.twin - Was It A Dream? (2025) [Single]
Golden Apes - The Highest Point (2025) [Single]
New Model Army - Live SO36 (2025)
Rule Of Two - Speechless (2025) [Single]
Liminal Prison - Liminal Cassette (2025) [EP]
Tout Debord - Video Star (2025) [Single]
William Bleak - Beat And Bleed (2025) [Single]
Korine - A Flame In The Dark (2025)
VA - PLAISIRS INCONNUS Free Selected Tracks Compilation Pt. 1 (2025)
Wolfgang Flür - Times (2025)
Then Comes Silence - I Put A Spell On You (2025) [Single]
Ist Ist - On Fire (2025)
NLiGHT - Dolor Animae (2025)
Scheitan - Heaven Tonight (2025) [Single]
blood.twin - Was It A Dream? (2025) [Single]
Golden Apes - The Highest Point (2025) [Single]
New Model Army - Live SO36 (2025)
Rule Of Two - Speechless (2025) [Single]
Liminal Prison - Liminal Cassette (2025) [EP]
Tout Debord - Video Star (2025) [Single]
William Bleak - Beat And Bleed (2025) [Single]
Raison D'être - Soundmixer Contest 2007 (2012)
Raison D'être - Après Nous Le Déluge (Redux Version) (2012)
Raison D'être - Residuality (2010) [Remastered]
Raison D'être - Live Archive (2010) [3CD]
Raison D'être - Spiraal (2009)
Raison D'être - The Luminous Experience (Live In Enschede 2008) (2008)
Raison D'être - Reflections From The Time Of Opening (2005) [Remastered]
Raison D'être - Lost Fragments (2002) [2CD Remastered]
Raison D'être - Collective Archives (1999) [2CD]
Raison D'être - Semblance (1995)
Raison D'être & Svasti-Ayanam - The Ring Of Isvarah (1994)
Raison D'être - Conspectus (1994)
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