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Free download of Dementia – ‘Limbus (revisited)’ 1991

news Posted on Sat, March 28, 2015 13:10

Free download of Dementia – ‘Limbus (revisited)’ 1991

http://webshop.raison-detre.info/album/limbus-revisited

With
‘Limbus (revisited)’ Peter Andersson goes back to the year 1991 and
select the best moments from an early demo tape by his Dementia-project.
The original demo contains 20 tracks, so half of them are included in
this revisit. The last track became an unique bonus track copied to the
master-tape alone a month later after the actual release. So the track,
which was obviously not treated with care concerning the quality, was
never included in the 1991 edition. The vocals of that last track is
written and performed by Johanna Rosenqvist (KOEFF, Institut).

Dementia was a project by Peter Andersson existing only in 1991. Influences came from EBM, Synthpop, Techno and Industrial.

Released 20 March 2015

Music by Peter Andersson 1991. K-14 mastering 2015.

Lyric and vocals on ‘Fasces (vocal)’ by Johanna Rosenqvist 1991.

Original released on May 21, 1991, as ‘Limbus’ MC (demo), B.o.C.a.t-003.

Digital release by Yantra Atmospheres. YA-2015-80.

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Free download of Dementia – ‘The Noistracker Sessions’ 1991

news Posted on Mon, December 22, 2014 18:26

To celebrate
Christmas and New Year I have released a free download album as a gift
to the world. Dementia is a project I had in 1991. This is low-fi 8-bit
music is made on a Atari 1040STE and Noistracker software. The Atari
desktop inspired artwork may be the ugliest I have ever done. Enjoy
anyway, it’s free!

http://webshop.raison-detre.info/album/the-noisetracker-sessions

This is a homage to the Atari 1040STE computer and the Noisetracker software!

When I started making music with help of a computer this was my first
setup and ‘The Noisetracker Sessions’ contains the complete collection
of tracks that I made with Noisetracker. This is not the high quality
music you are used to hear from Peter Andersson. The sounds used in this
music is clearly low resolution 8-bit mono. At this point raison d’être existed only in
theory, but just a few weeks after working with Noisetracker I bought a
multi-timbral synthesizer and used Steinberg 12 software (soon replaced by Steinberg 24 Pro), and that marked
the real start of raison d’être.

Dementia was a project by Peter Andersson existing only in 1991.
Influences came from EBM, Synthpop, Techno and Industrial. I’m pretty
sure this is very weird music for most of us. Anyhow, it is a
documentation of a strange moment in the music career of Peter
Andersson.

Track 01-02 taken from Suffering Deaths Agony In Affliction, MC 1991, B.o.C.a.t-004.

Track 03-08+10+23+26+28-29 taken from Subhumans, MC 1991, B.o.C.a.t-002.

Track 09+13-16+18+20+22+24-25+27 taken from Lost Recipes Now Recovered, MC 1991, B.o.C.a.t-009.

Remaining tracks are previously unreleased.

All tracks made by Peter Andersson in 1991 using Atari 1040STE computer and Noisetracker software.

K-14 level mastering 2014 from original 2-channel MC master tapes.

Digital release by Yantra Atmospheres, YA-2014-79.

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pre-order raison detre – ‘Tales from the Tabula Rasa’ (early work 1988-1991) album!

news Posted on Sat, November 29, 2014 18:19

It’s now possible to pre-order raison detre – ‘Tales from the Tabula Rasa’ (early work 1988-1991). Available as 2CD and digital download, also including 6 bonus tracks only for customers who buy directly from the raison d’être bandcamp store:

http://webshop.raison-detre.info/album/tales-from-the-tabula-rasa-early-work-1988-1991

Press release:
1: This is not a new album!
2: This does not sound like raison d’être!
3: This is raison d’être from another time and world!

‘Tales from the Tabula Rasa’ presents raison d’être in its earliest form, when there was no past and only future. This was the birth of raison d’être and the creative music mind of Peter Andersson. In one way it can be seen as the first particles to the seed that later became the established raison d’être sound in the 1990’s. In the other way it can be seen as the evil twin seed that was left to die in an early stage, like if it was a stillborn or an infanticide. Nevertheless it is a period of time that can not completely be forgotten; a time when the first chapter of raison d’être was written. The music is heavily influenced by ancient myths, legends, religion, philosophy and history. The output is referred to tales rather than songs. There is a story told in each and every sequence.

Most of the material is previously unreleased on CD but some are known from the collection album ‘Reflections From the Time of Opening’. Almost all the tracks are taken from three unofficial cassette releases from 1991, the year when raison d’être was born. A small portion is even earlier,from a pre-raison d’être project called D:Combe, active between 1988-1990. All material has been reworked in 2014. To the large extent the tracks are still the same, only some very annoying sounds or parts have been removed, and some orchestral sound samples have been replaced with better and more expressive versions. Five tracks from the original cassettes were exluded on the CD-set since they were too irritating. The exclusion made place for the D:Combe material which has been undergoing a more cosmetic treatment through a harmonized reverb becoming more hypnotic and dronelike. The fragments presented here are from the most experimental recordings, and the normal D:Combe sound was far from this, but still very primitive. Also changed is a pair of known track titles, they have returned to their original idea of spelling.

‘Tales from the Tabula Rasa’ contains 150 minutes of music and comes in a 6-panel Digipak enriched with photos by Roman Sirotin and painting by Jennifer Gordon and Roman Sirotin.

All music by Peter Andersson 1988-1991. Reworked 2014. K-14 level mastering.

Physical 2CD release by Old Europa Café, OECD200.
Digital release by Yantra Atmospheres, YA-2014-71.

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raison d’être – metamorphyses (expanded edition) now available

news Posted on Wed, November 05, 2014 19:55

raison d’être – metamorphyses (expanded edition) 2CD/Download now released! Available from here:

http://webshop.raison-detre.info/album/metamorphyses-expanded

From the press release:
Transformation is the key to the psyche. It unlocks the hidden domains
inside us and finds the paths to inner wisdom. ’Metamorphyses’ is a
journey into the deep inner self; a drama of the sublime and
trancendental transformation of the psyche through a katabasis ritual
presented in six transitional stages slowly moving towards completion.
’Metamorphyses’ is the key to the psyche.

Hypnotic, introspective and yet more difficult. Being the seventh
fullenght album from raison d’être, ’Metamorphyses’ is in many aspects
different from previous works by Peter Andersson. The organic flow and
the use of drones has been extended, creating a varied output of both
calm/meditative and harsh/intense sound structures. The transformation
in sound is also present in the perceived emotions. Demanding, tempting
and deceptive are only a few elements that characterize the ordeal the
listener has to withstand.

The expanded double CD edition of ‘Metamorphyses’ contains the original
album remastered according to the K-14 leevel standard. Additonally, two
previosuly unreleased early sketches from the ‘Metamorphyses’ session
has been added to the first disc. The second disc contains a selection
of previously unreleased live recordings from performances made between
2006-2008 in Sofia, Gent, Salzburg, Alkmaar and Budapest. Comes in a
6-panel digipak with original art by Kati Astraeir.

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upcoming gigs – autumn/winter 2014

news Posted on Fri, September 19, 2014 18:10

UPCOMING GIGS – Autumn/Winter 2014

raison d’être / BDN / Deutsch Nepal tour:

North America:
Oct 15 Montreal, QC – CASA DEL POPOLO
https://www.facebook.com/events/294977320627103

Oct 17 Pawtucket, RI – MACHINES WITH MAGNETS
https://www.facebook.com/events/249977845194103

Oct 18 Brooklyn, NY – THE ACHERON
https://www.facebook.com/events/1474160852800053

Oct 19 Philadelphia, PA – KUNG FU NECKTIE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1457189457855083

Oct 21 Pittsburgh, PA – BELVEDERES ULTRA-DIVE
https://www.facebook.com/events/465279526939148

Oct 23 Cleveland, OH – NOW THAT’S CLASS
https://www.facebook.com/events/564287880354922

Oct 25 Chicago, IL – CLUB RECTUM
https://www.facebook.com/events/307555979402763

Oct 28 Denton, TX – RUBBER GLOVES
https://www.facebook.com/events/409861079149279

Oct 29 Austin, TX – ELYSIUM
https://www.facebook.com/events/265023053674745

Oct 30 Miami, FL – GRAMPS
https://www.facebook.com/events/1466121653644228

Europe:
Nov 15 Moscow, Russia – SHOKOLADNAYA FABRIKA
https://www.facebook.com/events/532164160262108

Dec 6 London, UK – THE DOME
https://www.facebook.com/events/680263258679204

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raison d’être – requiem for abandoned souls (expanded edition) now released

news Posted on Mon, May 26, 2014 21:31

raison d’être – requiem for abandoned souls (expanded edition) 2CD/Download now released! Available from here:

http://webshop.raison-detre.info/album/requiem-for-abandoned-souls-expanded

From the press release:
First escorted and abandoned by dark spirits, you wander alone through
pitch-blackness, following sounds you’d rather run from then to. But
there is no other place to go but down, deeper and further. Filled with
such extreme talent and understanding in the ways of the desolate decay
that eats away at the very structure of mankind. The music becomes a
pulsating, throbbing entity that comes sobbing out of your speakers only
to lament the crumbling states of whatever you are stressed about at
that moment. The expanded edition contains the original disc with bonus
track and a second disc with various live material from 2003-2004.

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raison d’être – the empty hollow unfolds expanded releases now available

news Posted on Wed, May 14, 2014 22:25

raison d’être – ‘The Empty Hollow Unfolds’ 2014 (expanded edition) / (special expanded edition) are now available as physical releases (CD and 2CD on Retortae label) and as digital download (on Yantra Atmospheres label).

expanded edition:
http://webshop.raison-detre.info/album/the-empty-hollow-unfolds-expanded

special expanded edition:
http://webshop.raison-detre.info/album/the-empty-hollow-unfolds-special-expanded

Press release:

The ambience of grim desolation: “The Empty
Hollow” in question seems to be the soul; a soul that has unfolded into a
vast, blasted industrial landscape, littered with warehouse debris that
solemnly clatters like wind chimes born of refuge. The darkened shadows
cast on ‘The Empty Hollow Unfolds’ are of an eerie, almost sinister
allegiance, as if the maw at the center of infinity is yawning wide and
the haled breath freezes souls. The expanded edition adds two previosly
unreleased tracks to the album, and, on top, there is a special expanded
edition limited to 100 copies only containing live material from
2000-2001.

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raison d’être – ‘Mise en Abyme’ album is released and available!

news Posted on Fri, February 28, 2014 18:05

raison d’être ‘Mise en Abyme’ is now released and available:

http://webshop.raison-detre.info/album/mise-en-abyme

Press-release:
Transgredient Records is very proud to release the newest studio-work by
this well known Swedish ambient industrial project, continually
re-newing the dark ambient genre since 1992.’Mise en Abyme’ is the first
raison d’être studio album in over 4 years, following a very special
“initiation concept” with an emphasis on the experience of sequential
psychological states with cathartic effects – diving into the deepest
regions of the subconscious in order to return with a fresh and “empty”
mind. All the previously beloved elements of raison d’êtres music are
here: spacious deep drones, touching sacral choirs, ritualistic sounds
from gongs and bells and other awesome integrated field / object
recordings – all impressively enhanced to reach a new level of masterful
atmospheric composition. Moving from dramatic tension and threatening
uproar to meditative beauty, this near hour long album reveals various
changes and details, while always sounding monolithic (all of one
piece), expressing almost unbearable sensations of melancholy, vastness
and contemplation. The idea behind this album, in the words of the
artist: ” ‘Mise en Abyme’ is an inner journey down to the most hidden
and dark parts of the Self. ‘Mise en Abyme’ literally means ‘placed into
the abyss’ and conceptually the album contains ingredients from ‘The
Divine Comedy’ by Dante or any similar stories/myths around the
katabasis theme. Instead of being linked to religion, history or
morality, it is purely a psychological and therapeutic trip to the
underworld, investigating the subconscious. But even in the darkest and
chaotic places in the depths, there are small shades of light, hope and
understanding; one can be enlightened and purified upon returning to the
conscious world.”

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