RAISON D'ETRE

As the title suggests, this is not an album with new material of RAISON D'ETRE (Peter Andersson). It is a collection of rare and mostly long deleted tracks from between 1999 and 2010 that appeared on various compilations or other external projects. Suprisingly, despite the collection fact, these tracks form together a unity like if they were material for a conceptual album and present a memorandum of a past. Death, decay, melancholia and sadness is the common attributes and this is also beautifully rendered in the images by MARTIN BLADH (IRM, SKIN AREA) used for the artwork. His premature death masks sequence is based on different aging faces of Peter Andersson and works as the perfect facade for this kind of soundwise journey and exposure.