Raison d'être (band)
Swedish dark ambient music project / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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: "the individuation is the raison d’être of the self".[1] Dark ambient atmospheres, drone elements, industrial sounds, ecclesiastical hymns are all blended together to constitute the music of Raison d'être.
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Raison d'être | |
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Origin | Sweden |
Genres | Dark ambient |
Years active | 1991–present |
Labels | Cold Meat Industry |
Members | Peter Andersson |
Website | https://raison-detre.info |
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The music produced by Raison d'être is variously 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.