22 December 2006

77 minutes, 14 seconds

Raison d'Être
Reflections from the Time of Opening


This apparently represents the earliest material Peter Andersson recorded as Raison d'Être, and it's pretty different from his later work. For one thing, it's a lot more active. The tracks are shorter, and the sounds are more varied, using unconventional (for him) instruments like guitar. But you can also hear the bells, dragging chains, and sampled choirs that would populate later albums like Prospectus I and In Sadness, Silence and Solitude.

You could draw comparisons to early Delerium (which in turn draws comparisons to Zamia Lehmanni-era SPK), but Raison d'Être refined this style of downer New Age music, slowing it down and really teasing out its soundtrackish elements. (Provided the movie in question takes place in a ruined church littered with dead medieval soldiers.)

Also today:

77:11 yelworC, Trinity
77:08 Leæther Strip, Penetrate the Satanic Citizen
76:58 Alien Produkt, Revenge
76:58 Axon Neuron/Vagwa, Documents 1995-2005 (CD 2 of 2)
76:54 Censor, Empire Holds Down
76:52 Pneumatic Detach & C2, Pareses & [CC:]

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