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Raison Varner is a videogame music composer. He is most known for his work on Gearbox Software's game "Borderlands", for the soundtrack of which he scored nine of the twenty-seven tracks: Enter Skag Gully , Fighting Off The Skags ,Traversing The Deep , Welcome To The Trash Coast , The Rakk Hive Emerges , Assaulting Krom's Canyon , Battling Krom's Minions , Traveling To The Vault and Destroying The Destroyer. .

The Not Tonight Songfacts says that Elle Varner was born of two published songwriters, her mother, singer Mikelyn Roderick was a backup vocalist for Barry White and her father Jimmy Varner is a songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, who has collaborated with Kool & the Gang and Will Downing. Elle spent most of her childhood sleeping on studio couches, running around green rooms, and watching her parents struggle to make a name in the industry. Its no surprise that Varner was singing as soon as she could speak, playing the flute at 6 and the piano at 9. At age 16,...

raison d'être (French for "reason to be") is a dark ambient project from Boxholm, Sweden, whose sole member has always been Peter Andersson. Formed in 1991 as a tool of expression with the goal of self-realization and deeper knowledge of the inner Self. The music produced by raison d'être is chiefly dreamlike dark ambient soundscapes, with industrial touches. For example, synthesizers might play a droning melody over the sounds of metal on metal. Andersson often mixes Gregorian chants with his own keyboard and percussion playing. Official website: http://raison-detre.info .

Besides composing and arranging Tom Varner is probably the most distinctive French horn player in jazz since Julius Watkins, though he has been more inspired by the cornet playing of Don Cherry. A graduate from New England Conservatory he has since preformed and recorded with Lee Konitz, Bobby Watson, Steve Lacy, John Zorn, Dave Liebman, Bobby Previte and many others. He has recorded over ten albums as a leader largely for New World and Soul Note. .