What is "raison d'etre"

"excuse for being," 1864, first recorded in letter of J.S. Mill, from French raison d'être, literally "rational grounds for existence."

n. Anglicized spelling of raison d'être; a reason for living.

n. 1 The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone; the sole or ultimate purpose of something or someone. (literally "''reason to be''") 2 (raison d'être English)Category:English plurals

1. n. reason for being

2. the purpose that justifies a thing's existence

Raison d'être is a Swedish industrial ambient music project formed by Peter Andersson. The name of the band was taken from a sentence in a book by Carl Gustav Jung: "the individuation is the raison d’être of the self". Dark ambient atmospheres, drone elements, industrial sounds, ecclesiastical hymns are all blended together to constitute the music of Raison d'être. Deeply influenced by the writings of C.G.Jung, Raison d'être explores the depths of human psyche providing soundtracks for inner voyages towards the Tragic.

The music produced by Raison d'être is variously dark ambient and soundscape in nature. For example, synthesizers might play a droning melody over the sound of metal scraping together. Andersson often mixes tapes of Gregorian chant with his own keyboard and percussion playing.

Raison d'être is a French expression commonly used in English, meaning "reason for being" or "reason to be".

Raison d'être may refer to:

• Raison d'être (band), a Swedish dark-ambient-industrial-drone music project
• Raison D'être (album), an album by Australian jazz fusion guitarist Frank Gambale
• "Raison d'etre", a song by Asriel from the album Abyss
• "raison detre", a song by Japanese rock band Dir En Grey on the album Gauze
• "Raison d'etre", a song by Japanese rock band Nightmare used as opening theme of the anime Claymore
• "Raison d'être", a song used as the ending theme of the Chobits anime by Japanese singer and voice actress Rie Tanaka
• "Raison d'etre", a song by British rock band Buzzcocks from the album A Different Kind of Tension
• "Raison d'être～交差する宿命～", a song by Tomosuke Funaki under the alias Zektbach for the arcade game beatmania IIDX 17: Sirius
• Raison d'être, an American Ale brewed by Dogfish Head

Raison D'être is the ninth studio album by guitarist Frank Gambale, released on April 13, 2004 through Wombat Records.