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RAISON D’ÊTRE - Requiem for Abandoned Souls (expanded edition) 2CD
Re-release of 2014.
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.
So turn off your lights AND put out your candle when you listen to this
powerful release. The title says it all, 'Requiem for Abandoned Souls'
is filled with such extreme talent and understanding in the ways of the
desolate decay that eats away at the very structure of mankind, that 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.
It’s a natural sounding catalyst that merely tries to change something inside of you.
The songs are like epic collages of pain mixed with tranquillity, of
course mixed with an eerie atmosphere, that goes without saying, but
it’s the high quality of the material that pushes the album above the
rest.
As with the paths previously forged, sacral and arcane religious undertones permeate all aspects of the music.
Awash with reverberating drones, metallic nuisances, discordant chimes,
haunting chorals and sub- orchestral movements, the forlorn atmospheres
unfold over the expanse of five interlinked tracks.
The key to understanding Andersson's vision for this album lies in the
track titles; read separately, or taken together as a poem.
The toll of a church bell escorts the listener on an existential voyage
through the world according to raison d'être, a bleak place populated by
shadowy souls abandoned of all hope.
But don't let that scare you away, because this remarkably beautiful
collection of songs is a true remedy in this age of chaos; when the
outside withers away, the inside fills with emptiness, and there's
nothing left to believe in.
The expanded edition of 'Requiem for Abandoned Souls' contains the
original disc with a bonus track and a second disc with material from
various live performances from 2003 and 2004.
As with the original release (Cold Meat Industry 2003) the artwork
consists of images of abandoned places photographed by Henk van
Rensbergen, but instead of being presented with five different layouts
all the original images are included in the one and only layout.
Disc 1: all music by Peter Andersson 2003 (track 1-5) and 2004 (track 6).
Bowed cymbal and trombone performed by Martin Bladh.
Disc 2: recorded live 2003-2004.
K-14 level mastering 2014.