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This showcase contains track excerpts from a selection of albums by raison d'être.

raisondetre showcase

Dark Ambient

Ambient/Dark Ambient/Death Ambient/Experimental

Ambient Drone

The new raison d'être studio album Daemonum will be released by Cyclic Law on September 17,  2021. Standard version on CD / 2LP / Digital and Special edition including a bonus album on 2CD / 3LP / Digital. Pre-sales available from raison d'être Bandcamp store and Cyclic Law Bandcamp store and website. Artwork by Nihil. Music and video by raison d'être.

https://raisondetre.bandcamp.com/album/daemonum
https://raisondetre.bandcamp.com/album/daemonum-daemoniacum

Full press release information:
raison d'être "Daemonum" CD/2LP/Digital (178th Cycle)
Daemonum marks the 30-years anniversary of raison d'être. With Daemonum raison d'être scrutinizes the secrets of the Shadow; the Anima/Animus archetypes and the manifestation of them as a Soul image. By learning to listen for the voice of our subconscious self, we can call that voice our Daemon, our internal genius that provide guidance, we can find hidden potential within ourselves. Daemonum is the album of the daemons.

Hunting in the shadows, for the hidden and the opposite, Daemonum is another crossing, deep down to the shaded domains of the inner world. Struggling in blindness and oblivion, guidance and protectors are needed to unfold the obscure matters of our unconsciousness. 

Track list:
01) The Implacable Portal
02) Awaking The Primordial Image 
03) The Roots Of Our Weaknesses
04) Inside The Enantiodromia
05) Retrieving The Maternal Cathexis
06) Daemonium

Sounds, structures and K-14 level mastering by Peter Andersson 2020.
Artwork by Nihil.

Standard edition CD of 500 copies in 6-panel digisleeve, matt lamination. 6 Tracks. Running time: 74.56.
Standard edition 2LP of 300 copies in Gatefold sleeve, matt lamination. 6 Tracks. Running time: 73.30.


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raison d'être "Daemonum” + "Daemoniacum" 2CD/3LP/Digital (178th Cycle)
Daemonum marks the 30-years anniversary of raison d'être. With Daemonum raison d'être scrutinizes the secrets of the Shadow; the Anima/Animus archetypes and the manifestation of them as a Soul image. By learning to listen for the voice of our subconscious self, we can call that voice our Daemon, our internal genius that provide guidance, we can find hidden potential within ourselves. Daemonum is the album of the daemons.

Hunting in the shadows, for the hidden and the opposite, Daemonum is another crossing, deep down to the shaded domains of the inner world. Struggling in blindness and oblivion, guidance and protectors are needed to unfold the obscure matters of our unconsciousness. 

And to mark this 30th anniversary release, we’re offering an exclusive and limited special edition of Daemonum, a double CD or triple LP which includes a bonus album, "Daemoniacum". Think of Daemoniacum as some sort of anti-polarized version of Daemonum, as if Daemonum was haunted and possessed by a demon. As if the daemon inside is turned into a demonic creature because the host becomes obsessed by the demon. As if the Anima/Animus was intruded and molested or rejected and deformed, infecting the host, causing a different and repressed output. Daemoniacum is the album manifested by the demons. 

Track list:
Daemonum:
01) The Implacable Portal
02) Awaking The Primordial Image 
03) The Roots Of Our Weaknesses
04) Inside The Enantiodromia
05) Retrieving The Maternal Cathexis
06) Daemonium

Daemoniacum:
07) The Reclining Gate
08) Extrication From The Eternal Certitude
09) The Convergence Of Our Strengths
10) External Transmogrification
11) Wasting The Paternal Energy
12) Binding By Oath

Sounds, structures and K-14 level mastering by Peter Andersson 2020.
Artwork by Nihil.

Special edition 2CD of 500 copies in 6-panel digisleeve, matt lamination. 12 Tracks. Running time: CD1 74.56, CD2 40.58.
Special edition 3LP of 300 copies in Trifold sleeve, matt lamination. 12 Tracks. Running time: LP 1&2 73.30 minutes, LP3 39.30.

raison d'être - Daemonum - Official Album Teaser 2021

Wake

Black Feathers

http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/the-untold

From beyond the illusion, Simon Heath brings us another chapter in his dark ambient epic. With this ominous release, he takes us to the origins: the primordial metropolis and into the void where the creator abandoned us. Ripe with otherworldly soundscapes, dusty field recordings and a meticulous attention to technical quality, this album stretches the boundaries of dark ambiance and imparts our id with a raw slab of flesh to digest. 

- 72 minutes of dark ambient produced for 24 bit playback 
- 6 page HD booklet 
- 17 page digital book The Untold Associated Collections 

16 bit CD version available here: 
store.tesco-germany.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=CDXACRYO005

Atrium Carceri - The Traitor

Ambient drone with pads, textures, subtle pianos, synths and various sound effects.

'ENTERING THE UNKNOWN' // Ambient Drone

Halgraths second album on Cryo Chamber is a very personal one, where the artists shares her inner struggles of transformation after dramatic events in her life. This dark ambient journey carries not only deep drones, but serene voices and emotional soundscapes as well. 

Available and recommended in 24 bit FLAC.
credits
released 07 January 2014 
Production, Sounds, Mastering - Agratha 
Artwork - Agratha and Simon Heath

Halgrath - Cold Breath of Mountains

Teaser for the new raison d'être studio album 'Mise en Abyme', out on Transgredient Records 2014. 

'Mise en Abyme' (placed into the abyss) is an inner katabasis journey to the most hidden and darkest parts of the Self. 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, 'Mise en Abyme' is purely a psychological and therapeutic trip to the underworld. But even in the most dark and chaotic places in the depths there are small shades of light, hope and understanding; one can be enlightened and purified in the return from an inferno. 

Video teaser available here:
http://youtu.be/pmnvden-DBo

raison d'être - 'Mise en Abyme' album teaser

Destination Otorten (Raw Mix)

Kholat Syakhl Deformation

After nearly two years of silence, Maldur Atai wave gives us a retrospective remix album – Umbra Nihil I. This is the first record of the project, which is released under the Moontrix label. So far, four albums and three short vinyls of Maldur Atai have been released by Autarkeia.

Born in early 2010, an idea of remix album was transforming and evolving along with the microstages of Maldur Atai activity.

A concept of Umbra Nihil I album series has been inspired and framed by the perception that every aspect of reality is divided into two sides only until the mechanical moon-shaped puzzle found in mystic temples of Nepal is not solved.

It is a moment of change and endeavour to reassess the previous heights and abysses and to start new cycle with one more opportunity to unfold the riddle of the last tabula rasa.

Sound system of Maldur Atai is a result of integration of various approaches and energy parts composing them.

While designing the Umbra Nihil I, it was strived to involve as many factors as possible to influence the final structure of work. It is no coincidence that ultimate shape of the album concept was formed by friends from Lithuania – Oorchach, Skeldos, Pogrom, America – Voice Of Eye and Sweden – Deutsch Nepal. Final sound adjustments were made by Colin Potter, a magician of electronic music, and concepts of design were transposed from dreams by Opera Dreamhouse.

CD Digipak PRESALE: http://www.moontrix.com/market/en/moontrix-releases/48-maldur-atai-umbra-nihili-i-cd-digipak-2014.html

Maldur Atai - Umbra Nihili I (2014)

It so hard being pretty in this gawd awful city…

Poisonous Stranger (1st Cut)

Ugasanie knows for his freezing desolate soundscapes is back with a new album taking us even further north to explore the concept of the unusual and mysterious phenomenon known as arctic hysteria (also known as menerik and the call of the North Star). It manifests itself only in the polar night, and only when the northern lights shine. Man, as if under hypnosis journeys north. In this state of trance he is almost impossible to stop, he becomes aggressive, sings a song, mumbles, experience hallucinations and persistently continues towards the polar star. It is not uncommon that these people end up freezing or starving to death. 

In track 5 the voice belongs to an old yakutish man. The recording was made during an attack of polar hysteria. This field recording was recorded in a Yakutia group of researchers led by Eduard Alekseev in the 60s.

Ugasanie - Call of the North

Excerpt from the CD album 'In Sadness, Silence and Solitude' (original 1997/ remastered 2006).

Reflecting in Shadows

The Well of Sadness

Excerpt from the upcoming new HERBST9 release Ušumgal Kalamma

The Great Child Of Suen

Ambient Drone 18

The new album will be released by Cyclic Law on CD / 2LP / Download on the 31st of January 2018. Pre-sales will be available from early January directly from raison d'être Bandcamp store and Cyclic Law Bandcamp store and website.

Alchymeia

raison d'être - Alchymeia - official album teaser 2017

Hibernation

Lifeline

From the album 'Songs Over Ruins' (1997).

Songs Over Ruins II

Sound clip from the CD 'When the Earth Dissolves in Ashes' which gathers 75 minutes unique live only material performed at different locations during 2010 and 2011: Zürich, Wuppertal, Rotterdam, Cologne, Leipzig (WGT), Cherkassy and more. The starting point for these live tracks is mainly the sounds used for 'In sadness, Silence and Solitude', 'Metamorphyses' and 'The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice' looped and mixed live together with on spot improvised sounds, thus shaped into new never before heard sonically expressions.

The Water of Cleansing

Spira Mirabilis

Shadow Weaver

Sound clip taken from the forthcoming (spring 2012) CD re-release of  'Aprés nous le Dèluge'  from 1992, restored and remixed for superior quality and added with bonus tracks. The dark, atmospheric and energetic mix of choirs, strings, various Fx sounds, heavy drums and tribal sections makes this the seed for the raison d’être sound trademark that begun with the album 'Prospectus I' from 1993. 

Moribund

Death Brightens With Sorrow

A previously unheard early/rough mix of the first track from the Lustmord album Heresy.

Heresy was released 20 years ago this month (September 1990) and recorded in 1989.


Heretic 1 v3

from the album Phrenitis
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com

Atrium Carceri -  Faces of war

From the upcoming album, 'Anastasis,' out 8/13 (int'l) and 8/14 (US). Pre-order available now at iTunes: http://bit.ly/dcdpreorder. 

Amnesia (Radio Edit)

Stratvm Terror - 'Aged Fractures and Dead Ends' 2CD Old Europa Café 2012
Available in October!

Press-release:
Is it really dead? : yes, this release marks the end of Stratvm Terror.
But what an end!
Massive sounds of drowning liquids, mechanized background noises, brain mangler soundscapes and harsh abrasive amplifications.
Playing this loud will probably make you deaf, but what else is there to listen to after experiencing this.
'Aged Fractures and Dead Ends' is a vast collection of various archive material produced by the Stratvm Terror constellation Peter Andersson (raison d'être) and Tobias Larsson (Ocean Chief).
Lost pieces, sketches, live material, cassette and compilation tracks between 1993 and 1999. 150 minutes in total and most of it has previously never been released.
Comes in a 6-panel digipak with photos by Henrik Stolt.

Aged Fractures and Dead Ends (preview/extracts from)

Atrium Carceri Dark Ambient Mix:

00:01 Twisted Foetus ( Seishinbyouin )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/twisted-foetus

05:22 Dark Water ( Seishinbyouin )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/dark-water

09:19 Impaled Butterfly ( Kapnobatai )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/impaled-butterfly

14:00 Maintenance Tunnels ( Kapnobatai )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/maintenance-tunnels

18:14 A Stroll through the ancient city ( Kapnobatai )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/a-stroll-through-the-ancient-city

23:40 Inside the city ( Phrenitis )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/inside-the-city

26:50 Eraser ( Phrenitis )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/eraser

37:16 Time Freeze ( Phrenitis )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/time-freeze

43:06 Reunion ( Phrenitis )
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/reunion

'Phrenitis' takes the listener to a twisted place where the walls between worlds are razed. The ruinous cities of wars long past, where time itself is but a prisoner and the warlords roaming their purgatorial halls are free to destroy the very foundations of the natural order. 

'Phrenitis' is the 6th album of Atrium Carceri and is yet another step of the ever increasing Atrium Carceri wake up call. Simon Heath shows himself and the world, yet again, that no man is ever truly the master of their art unless they strive to evolve with it. The soundscapes he has created bypass the conscious mind, taking the listener deep into his pristine nightmare. The evolution of sound is spot-on and sets Atrium Carceri apart from other lazy dark ambient acts by being a truly diverse piece, replete with details upon details to make the illusion complete, and haunting compositions to make the mind yearn.
credits
released 02 December 2009 
www.atriumcarceri.com 

Produced, Composed and Mastered - Simon Heath

Atrium Carceri - Sub Surface

03 - Kholat Syakhl (Mountain Of The Dead)

My diamond in the rough (extended version)

Today, March 7th is my birthday, so I give you an ambient imrpov. 
Enjoy. 

Drone/Ambient guitar improv

Ambient drone soundscape with big emphasis on textures, pads and sound effects.

https://clgmusic.bandcamp.com/track/mystical-realms

'DIMENSIONS' // Ambient Drone Soundscape

Raison d'être formed in 1991 as a tool of expression with the goal of self-realization. Behind the project is the highly respected and multitalented sound artist Peter Andersson. For almost two decades now, and with a vast number of CD releases on the Cold Meat Industry label, raison d'être have been supplying listeners with overwhelming dark ambient industrial landscapes of beauty and sorrow. Listening to raison d'être is like a lucid journey into the dark hidden domains of your inner self. But this is not all. Peter Andersson host not only one but up to nine other projects representing different sides and sounds of the Andersson character. The most well known except for raison d'être are Stratvm Terror, Necrophorus, Bocksholm and Atomine Elektrine.