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  • The Luminous Experience (Live in Enschede 2008)

    CMI188

    Artist: Raison d'être

    Label: Cold Meat Industry

    This is raison d'être alive! Put yourself in a comfortable position, light some candles in a darkened room and open a bottle of red wine of your choice. Prepare for meeting raison d'être live in your living room. Press the play button and imagine a dark place: hear a distant sound that multiplies and coming closer and closer. The sound becoming a sonic swarm that surrounds your body, penetrating your mind and makes your soul trembling in its sublime foundation. Now, inhale a massive amount of air and hold your breath for a while. Constantly repeat. Let the sonic landscapes trigger your experience. Be enlighten.
    'The Luminous Experience', recorded on the darkest hour of Midsummer night 2008 in Enschede (The Netherlands), is the first complete live album from raison d'être featuring the whole set of one concert. The live set mainly contains live only material: a mixture of composed and improvised elements that has never been experienced on CD before. Present here are also some live adapted compositions from the albums 'The Empty Hollow Unfolds' and 'Metamorphyses'. 'The Luminous Experience' is the 11th original album by raison d'être since their first album 'Prospectus I', released 15 years ago.

  • Metamorphyses

    CMI158

    Artist: raison d'être

    Label: Cold Meat Industry

    Finally available the new album of Raison d'être, coming in a beautiful and foilprinted digipak.
    Transformation is the key to the psyche. Breath and feeling intertwined is the given links for the search of inner wisdom and to unlock the hidden inside us. ’Metamorphyses’ is a journey into the deep inner; a drama of the sublime and trancendental transformation of the psyche through a katabasis ritual of six transitional stages into a final completion. ’Metamorphyses’ is a key to the psyche.

    Hypnotic, introspective and yet more difficult. As 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 feelings; demanding, tempting and deceptive are only a few elements that characterize the ordeal the listener has to withstand.

  • Reflections From the Time of Opening

    CMI138

    Artist: Raison D'être

    Label: Cold Meat Industry

    ‘Reflections From the Time of Opening’ contains a selected collection of the very earliest material by raison d’être, now finally available on Cold Meat Industry. The album shows the first phases in the development of raison d’être and should rather be seen as a documentation album of that time more than a conceptual album. ‘Reflections From the Time of Opening’ sounds quite different from later and established raison d’être sound, but that makes it not less enjoyable. Also included on the disc are the compilation tracks from ‘The Absolute Supper’ (Cold Meat Industry) and Funeral Songs’ (Crowd Control Activities) and re-mixes of the two remaining tracks from the first raison d’être CD ‘Prospectus I’ (track re-mixes of ‘Prospectus I’ can also be found on Collective Archives’ and ‘Lost Fragments’).

    A monumental documentation of 77 minutes, of what has become one of todays most talented, and respected dark-ambient artists.

  • The Empty Hollow Unfolds

    CMI78

    Artist: Raison D'être

    Label: Cold Meat Industry

    This is a grim travelogue from the land where the sun never rises; grievous keyboard overlayed by factory noises and the trademark chanting monks turns this into some of the most unsettling listening since of Lustmord's 'Paradise Disowned'.

  • Enthraled By the Wind of Lonelines

    CMI27

    Artist: Raison D'être

    Label: Cold Meat Industry

    The follow-up to his brilliant Prospectus I, is another mesmerizing soundscape with ambiental chants and rituals. Dark decadent and beautiful music, ideal for cold nights of lonely contemplation.

  • Prospectus I

    CMI18

    Artist: Raison D'être

    Label: Cold Meat Industry

    A stunning blend of the modern 'soft' gothic sound and the timeless chants of Catholic rituals. It it at once a beautiful sound, yet also filled with melancholy. Nine movements in samples, loops, slow powerful drums, orchestrations, bells, keyboards, chants, echoes, sustained notes... feeling like the inside of a factory or a haunted monastery. Another one to sit alone in the dark with.