1: This is not a new album!
\n2: This does not sound like raison d’être!
\n3: This is raison d’être from another time and world!
\n‘Tales from the Tabula Rasa’ presents raison d’être in its earliest form, when there was no past and only future.
\nThis was the birth of raison d’être and the creative music mind of Peter Andersson.
\nIn one way it can be seen as the first particles to the seed that later became the established raison d’être sound in the 1990’s.
\nIn the other way it can be seen as the evil twin seed that was left to die in an early stage, like if it was a stillborn or an infanticide.
\nNevertheless it is a period of time that can not completely be forgotten; a time when the first chapter of raison d’être was written.
\nThe music is heavily influenced by ancient myths, legends, religion, philosophy and history.
\nThe output is referred to tales rather than songs.
\nThere is a story told in each and every sequence.
\nMost of the material is previously unreleased on CD but some are known from the collection album ‘Reflections From the Time of Opening’.
\nAlmost all the tracks are taken from three unofficial cassette releases from 1991, the year when raison d’être was born.
\nA small portion is even earlier,from a pre-raison d’être project called D:Combe, active between 1988-1990.
\nAll material has been reworked in 2014.
\nTo the large extent the tracks are still the same, only some very annoying sounds or parts have been removed, and some orchestral sound samples have been replaced with better and more expressive versions.
\nFive tracks from the original cassettes were exluded on the CD-set since they were too irritating.
\nThe exclusion made place for the D:Combe material which has been undergoing a more cosmetic treatment through a harmonized reverb becoming more hypnotic and dronelike.
\nThe fragments presented here are from the most experimental recordings, and the normal D:Combe sound was far from this, but still very primitive.
\nAlso changed is a pair of known track titles, they have returned to their original idea of spelling.
\n‘Tales from the Tabula Rasa’ contains 150 minutes of music and comes in a 6-panel Digipak enriched with photos by Roman Sirotin and painting by Jennifer Gordon and Roman Sirotin.
\nAll music by Peter Andersson 1988-1991.
\nReworked 2014.
\nTracklist:
\n§ CD 1
\n1 Blood and Water
\n2 The Maturation of Nature
\n3 Le Temps et L’Espace
\n4 The Sphere of Another World
\n5 Hell did Tremble, and the Gates of Death
\n6 Death-pit of Ur
\n7 Silences
\n8 Annwn \/ Gwyn ap Nudd
\n9 Auto-da-fé
\n10 Maya
\n11 Ruins
\n12 Mictlantecuhtli
\n13 Sub Specie Aeternitatis
\n14 Meta – Acte I – Metabasis eis allo Genos
\n15 Meta – Acte II – Metamorphe \/ Nekropolis
\n16 Meta – Acte III – Metanoia \/ The Apollo Cult
\n17 Thanatos \/ Ahu
\n18 Faceless
\n19 Archetypon Ataraxia
\n20 The Rage of the Rape in Eden
\n21 Unendliches Angst
\n22 Ruins (short)
\n23 Metamorphe
\n§ CD 2
\n1 Gwyn ap Nudd \/ Annwn
\n2 Lumen Naturale
\n3 The Abyss in Abstracto
\n4 Euthymia
\n5 The External World \/ Through the Sipapu in the Kiva to Beyond the Beyond
\n6 Shangri-La \/ Lost Horizon
\n7 Reflecture; Meditato
\n8 Moral Sense
\n9 Arbitraire Émotion \/ In Coma
\n10 Amor Latent
\n11 Qi – Yin-Yang
\n12 Leprous
\n13 Antarctica
\n14 Zombie
\n15 The Rebirth of the Neck
\n16 NON-Exorcism
\n17 Antichrist
\n18 D:Combe: Nightmares<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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