Artists : Raison D'etre
Title : Requiem For Abandoned Souls
Label : Cold Meat Inc.
Catalogue No. : CMI 128
Genres : Dark Wave
Format : CD
Street Date: 2003

One of the persons in the extended CMI family that doesn't need a particulary long introduction is Peter Andersson. His Raison d'Etre was one of the first acts to be featured on CMI, and over the last ten years he has kept refining their signature sound over an extensive discography.

Three years since the previous album, the new offering 'Requiem for Abandoned Souls' is a kind of climax, a career peak that all previous albums have pointed up to, where the music sets a perfect backdrop for the theme as spelled out by the album title. 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'Etre, 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.

TRACKLISTING :
01 In Abandoned Places
02 The Shadow of the Soul
03 Disintegrates from Within
04 Towards Desolation
05 Becoming the Void of Nothingness