Flavor of the Week #49

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Gatekeeper 

https://www.a-d-r.net/ 

( ;D --> Gatekeeper has created its own morbidly deranged discotheque, a vivid flight of fancy in which the conventions of techno, Chicago house, italo-disco and industrial are transfigured into one phantasmagorical adventure, populated by hushed screams, Gregorian dungeon chants and cinematic washes of mammoth sound.) 

Wrong Planet 

https://gatekeeper-fm.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-planet 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/03/flavor-of-week-10.html 

Magnetic Skies 

www.facebook.com/magneticskies 

( ;D --> Synth Pop/New Wave, from the UK. Magnetic Skies are Simon Kent (vocals), Jo Womar (keyboards), Lenin Alegria (drums).) 

Fragments 

https://magneticskies.bandcamp.com/album/fragments 

EdgarFilms 

www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/interpreter/edgarfilms/23405002

( ;D --> EdgarFilms releases electronic and space-themed music.) 

Galactic North 

https://open.spotify.com/album/0Nuatevg9V3i78pHGUqAEx 

Midnight Chronicles 

https://play.anghami.com/album/1066955351 

Marc George 

www.instagram.com/marcgeorgemusic/ 

( ;D --> Imagine "Officium“'s the Hilliard Ensemble being in the same room with Brian Eno and Enigma: The Second pre-release from the "INNER SANTUM" album combines all these influences and adds the signature sounds from Blank & Jones and Marc George. Perfect headphone music for this winter.) 

Santum III (Sanctus) Blank & Jones https://open.spotify.com/album/0IxopzZGXtQHVgp0y2ggqD 

Inner Sanctum (December 5th) 

https://save-it.cc/soundcolours/kyrie

Alan R. Pearlman Foundation 

https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.org 

( ;D --> Alan Pearlman was destined to be an engineer since the day he was born. His father designed movie theater projectors and his grandfather made parts for phonograph machines. A fascination with sound occupied his interest from an early age. As a child he built amateur radios and in 1948, as a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he wrote a paper on electronic music in which he said: “The electronic instrument’s value is chiefly as a novelty. With greater attention on the part of the engineer to the needs of the musician, the day may not be too remote when the electronic instrument may take its place as a versatile, powerful, and expressive instrument.) 

Soul Of the Machine: A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman 

https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/soul-of-the-machine-a-celebration-of-the-life-legacy-of-arp-founder-alan-r-pearlman 

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Flavor of the Week #48

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FÏX8:SËD8 

http://fix8sed8.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/Fix8Sed8 

( ;D --> FÏX8:SËD8 is a dark electro/EBM music group based out of Frankfurt, Germany. Like many notable dark electronic music projects, FÏX8:SËD8 consists of a solo mastermind by the name of Martin Sane.) 

Octagram 

https://fix8sed8-de.bandcamp.com/album/octagram 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/11/flavor-of-week-47.html 

Nightcrawler 

www.nightcrawlermusic.com 

( ;D --> Synthwave and Darksynth are the foundations of Nightcrawler’s sound universe, heavily influenced by horror soundtracks and sci-fi movies, elements blended with electronic beats and a dark atmosphere.) 

Malevolent Forces 

https://nightcrawler.bandcamp.com/album/malevolent-forces 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/03/flavor-of-week-13.html 

Automelodi 

www.facebook.com/automelodimusic 

https://automelodi.com 

( ;D --> Musically active since the mid 90s, Xavier Paradis has been working as a singer-songwriter – initially under the pseudonym Arnaud Lazlaud, then as Automelodi – and as a music producer for his own projects as well as for a number of other artists.) 

Cavallo EP 

https://automelodi.bandcamp.com/album/cavallo-ep 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2013/10/flavor-of-week-41.html 

Poltergeist 

www.facebook.com/PoltergeistElectroMusic/ 

( ;D --> Poltergeist has this strange power of attraction held by these personalities with an icy and mysterious aura. As soon as Ari Girard (aka Poltergeist) appears, something happens, he captures the light and strikes the spirits.) 

Noise Club 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vevsUMMJGVM 

Noie Club EP 

https://open.spotify.com/album/7f3ZSnvO84XelLSXG3YcvV 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/07/flavor-of-week-29.html 

The Residents 

www.residents.com 

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents 

( ;D --> Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart, the Residents channelled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.) 

I am Resident 

www.residents.com/iamaresident/ 

( ;D --> The Residents, long known as one of the most mysterious and reclusive bands of all time, are pleased to announce a new chapter in their lengthy and legendary career. A new door is opening and the name on that door is YOU! Teaming up with PledgeMusic, the group is not just releasing a new album - not just TWO NEW ALBUMS - but by inviting their fans to participate, they’re introducing a completely new idea: I AM A RESIDENT! After joining the I AM A RESIDENT! PledgeMusic campaign, fans will cross the line between passive consumption and active participation. Choose any song from The Residents’ vast catalog, record your own version and submit it. The Residents and their fans will then vote on their favorites which will will be included as part of the I AM A RESIDENT! album.) www.instagram.com/p/BkBGFsNlFWX/ 

Leftovers (1970-1988) 2-CD Compilation 

https://soundcloud.com/the-residents/sets/leftovers-1970-1988 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/06/flavor-of-week-25.html 

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Flavor of the Week #47

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Clark (Chris Clark) 

http://throttleclark.com/clark/ 

www.facebook.com/throttleclark 

http://soundcloud.com/throttleclark 

( ;D --> Chris Clark is an English electronic musician currently signed to Warp Records. With the 2006 release of Throttle Furniture, he shortened his artist name to Clark. Throttle Furniture and Body Riddle were both three years in the making, during which time Clark refined his sound considerably. His meticulous production style makes much use of manipulated live drum samples, which are used to construct complex beats. He performed with a live drummer (often Rob Lee aka Wax Stag).) 

Steep Stims 

https://clark.bandcamp.com/album/steep-stims 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/09/flavor-of-week-38.html 

Fragrance 

www.facebook.com/thisisfragrance/ 

http://soundcloud.com/thisisfragrance 

( ;D --> Fragrance. is a dark & dreamy synthpop project of Matthieu Roche from Paris.) 

Gone, Vanished 

https://soundcloud.com/thisisfragrance/gone-vanished 

Kintsugi 

https://fragrancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/kintsugi 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/06/flavor-of-week-26.html 

Pertubator 

www.facebook.com/Perturbator 

http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/ 

( ;D --> "The legend says he's half human, half synthesizer..." I make Dark and Retrofuturistic music inspired by the 80's. Performed, produced and mastered by James “Perturbator” Kent.)

Age of Aquarius 

https://perturbator.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-aquarius 

See also:

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2021/06/flavor-of-week-24.html 

Sound Synthesis 

https://soundcloud.com/sound-synthesis-official 

https://eudemonia.bandcamp.com 

( ;D --> The Maltese machine funk specialist himself Keith Farrugia is back once more with yet more of his impeccable electro business as Sound Synthesis. This time the prolific producer is shoring up on Burnski's Infiltrate label with four cool and deadly cuts which build on his previous drops for 20:20 Vision, Furthur Electronix, Orbital Mechanics and more besides. From the nervy sci-fi flex of 'Motor Space Maps' to the playful fun n' games of 'Back In Time', Farrugia knows exactly what he's doing within the electro blueprint, and his tracks are reliably punchy warm - a true master at work.) 

Refraction (Sound Synthesis Remix) 

https://eudemonia.bandcamp.com/track/refraction-sound-synthesis-remix 

Schematics LP 

https://soundsynthesis.bandcamp.com/album/schematics-lp 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/09/flavor-of-week-37.html 

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows 

www.facebook.com/sopor.aeternus.offiziell 

www.soporaeternus.de 

( ;D --> Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows (Latin: sopor æternus "eternal sleep"; often referred to or stylized as Sopor Aeternus or Sopor) is a darkwave musical project based in Frankfurt, founded in 1989 by Anna-Varney Cantodea. Since the project's beginnings, Anna-Varney's work has garnered a cult following, notorious for its extremely personalized, melancholic and pessimistic nature, drawing on a number of different musical and visual styles.) 

DEA MUTÁRION 

https://soporaeternus.bandcamp.com/album/dea-mut-rion-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-2025 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/12/flavor-of-week-52.html 

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Flavor of the Week #46

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Extrawelt 

www.extrawelt.com 

https://soundcloud.com/extrawelt-official 

www.facebook.com/extrawelt.live/ 

( ;D --> The future of powerful, breathtaking electronic music by Extrawelt (Arne Schaffhausen & Wayan Raabe). Their sound incorporates minimal, progressive and techno, aimed squarely at blowing holes in sound systems. With more than 10 Original Productions and dozens of remixes, Extrawelts’ tank-like driving bass lines, powerful drum beats and blend of menacing, droning, echoing synths are impressing everyone from your 8 year old sister to some of the most prolific DJs in the world including Sasha, John Digweed, James Holden and Sven Vath. Early on Extrawelt’s productions quickly caught the ear of James Holden, who signed their first track to his own Border Community Label. James gave the track a working title “soopertrack” which stuck, and soon became a manifesto for their music, producing and releasing dance floor bomb after bomb, through labels including the Iconic Cocoon label, Traum, Great Stuff and Giant Wheel.) 

Mindwear

https://soundcloud.com/cocoonrecordings/extrawelt-mindwear

11Schnull feat. Newinfluenzer - Ich und meine Ubahn (Extrawelt Remixes Instrumentals) BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE

https://extrawelt.bandcamp.com/album/11schnull-feat-newinfluenzer-ich-und-meine-ubahn-extrawelt-remixes-instrumentals-bandcamp-exclusive

Dystortion (December 5th)

https://extrawelt.bandcamp.com/album/dystortion

See also:

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/06/flavor-of-week-26.html

Sierra Veins 

https://sierraveins.com/ 

www.instagram.com/sierraveins/ 

( ;D --> With violence and melancholy, gentleness and brutality, SIERRA VEINS mixes moods and styles to create a singular, overpowering universe inspired by synthwave, EBM and darkwave. After the success of her first singles Gone and Unbroken (getting millions of streams in no time), the French artist got thrown at the forefront of the scene. She is now considered as one of the best international EBM live act always mixing together the sounds and spirits of Electro, Synthwave and even Metal.) 

In The Name Of Blood

https://sierraveins.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-name-of-blood-2 

Austra 

www.austramusic.com 

www.facebook.com/austraofficial 

( ;D --> Austra is a Canadian electronic band from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2009. The band consists of Katie Stelmanis (vocals), her former Galaxy bandmate Maya Postepski (drums) and former Spiral Beach bassist Dorian Wolf. They played a number of early shows under the name Private Life before learning that another band was already using the name; they subsequently named the band after Stelmanis' middle name Austra, which is also the name of the goddess of light in Latvian mythology. Austra's touring lineup includes twin backing singers Sari and Romy Lightman of Tasseomancy and Ryan Wonsiak of Ze and the Boyfriends.) 

Chin up Buttercup (November 14th) 

https://austra.bandcamp.com/album/chin-up-buttercup 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2016/10/flavor-of-week-43.html 

Chicks On Speed 

https://chicksonspeed.bandcamp.com/ 

( ;D --> Chicks on Speed are art duo Melissa E. Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie who met in Munich, Germany while studying at The Academy of Fine Art, Munich. The duo cross lines and build new groups and are direct decedents of bauhaus, Fluxus, SI and created Electroclash in the last milenia.) 

Cookies 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_jM1ZVV_1U 

HEARandNOWtopia 

https://open.spotify.com/album/5J9J8i5EklgIFZFyM0r09w 

0010X0010 

https://soundcloud.com/0010x0010 

https://0010x0010.com/ 

( ;D --> 0010x0010 is an audio/visual artist hailing from Helmond, Noord Brabant, the same region in the south of The Netherlands as Vincent Van Gogh. While he primarily focuses on his audiovisual art projects, showcasing his works globally, his string of music releases highlights a signature sound that stands out among his contemporaries, earning global support by A-list DJs including Amelie Lens, Chris Liebing, Dax J, DJ Rush, DJ Pierre, Ellen Allien, Nina Kraviz just to name a few. Many of his tracks can be heard from Berghain, Tomorrowland, Boiler Room to BBC Radio 1 as well as in movies including “Compulsion”, starring Analeigh Tipton.) 

Sly EP 

https://open.spotify.com/album/7uEpYl4fPapPpCm3rfVFHj 

See also 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/07/flavor-of-week-28.html 

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Flavor of the Week #45

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Ohota 

www.instagram.com/ivan.ohota 

( ;D --> Ohota is a DJ, record producer, remixer, and songwriter. His music career starts in 2008 with an electro punk cabaret. After that, project moved to Berlin. After 2 years of silence Ivan started solo career, a trashy hard techno project Gazovaya Eblya.) 

Trip 

https://open.spotify.com/album/3kR54oWt5qIl5JzsjzxMSB 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/03/flavor-of-week-12.html 

Sydney Valette 

www.instagram.com/sydney_valette/ 

www.facebook.com/Sydney2Valette/ 

( ;D --> Through a varied and progressive career spanning several styles of electronic music, Sydney Valette upholds the highest levels of vision and discipline. His wide-ranging catalog–including the new ‘Death Of a Comedian’ EP—is impressive and addictive.) 

Les Couloirs Du Temps 

https://sydneyvalette.bandcamp.com/album/les-couloirs-du-temps 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/10/flavor-of-week-41.html 

Antonio Rocca 

https://antoniorocca.bandcamp.com/ 

( ;D --> Antonio Rocca is a producer and composer from Switzerland. With a passion for innovative sounds and cross-genre.) 

Oxymoron 

https://soundcloud.com/antonio_rocca/oxymoron 

Darkness 

https://antoniorocca.bandcamp.com/track/darkness 

NNHMN 

www.facebook.com/nonhuman.duo 

https://nnhmn.com/ 

( ;D --> NNHMN is Berlin-based dark electronic music duo – creating moody and evocative music infected with haunted synth sounds, eerie ambiences and mysterious female vocals. Lee and Michal Laudarg embarked on a sonic journey on the thresholds of New Brutalist Theatre, experimental electronic music and techno culture. NNHMN have built up a local following and have been appreciated by numerous alternative festival organizers. The band has toured Europe, played local Berlin clubs and performed live at festivals in Seoul, New York City, Montreal and Barcelona.) 

Maybe Late 

https://nnhmn.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-late 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/03/flavor-of-week-14.html 

S.A. 123 (Die Form solo Project) 

https://dieform.bandcamp.com/ 

( ;D --> Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977-78. The name 'Die Form' means '(the) form' in German, like the Bauhaus diary and is a play on the English homonym 'deformed' and on the French homonym 'difforme' (without form). Die Form is the primary project of the French electronic musician and multimedia artist Phillipe Fichot (who is usually accompanied by singer Eliane P. Primarily). Die Form deliveres a combination of esoteric electronic experiments with an underlying theme of erotism, death and other 'taboo' subjects, apparent in both the music and the album artwork, which Phillpe also produces.) 

Societe Anonyme 

https://dieform.bandcamp.com/album/societe-anonyme-s-a-123-remastered-die-form-solo-project 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/08/flavor-of-week-36.html 

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Flavor of the Week #44

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Martin Dupont 

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057172102076 www.instagram.com/martindupontofficiel 

https://minimalwave.com/artists/artist/martin-dupont/ 

( ;D --> A french group from Marseilles formed in 1982. Their first single was released on Turquoise and later lps were released on the Facteurs D’Ambience label, formed by Alain Seghir and Alain Arnaud. The band played excellent live sets as well.) 

You Smile WHen It Hurts 

https://open.spotify.com/album/1GpOv8qwjvISDWEEQWpJE0 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/01/flavor-of-week-5.html 

Metroland 

www.metrolandmusic.com/ 

( ;D --> Metroland : a conceptual band, consisting out of passenger A & passenger S, bringing synthetic sounds from the "underground", highly influenced by Komputer (Mute Records) and Kraftwerk.) 

Reset EP 

https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/reset-ep 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/08/flavor-of-week-32.html 

Covenant 

www.covenant.de 

( ;D --> In the late 1970s and early 1980s, electronic music and several of its subgenres became a preferred musical style among European underground culture. It gained favor initially within major cities and eventually trickled into the continent's more socially secluded regions. This new wave of music was discovered at different instances by a group of friends living among the shadows of Helsingborg, a scenic municipality in western Sweden. philosophy, and matters of existence, were enthralled by the unique presentation and the emotional content offered through the music, specifically by that of bands such as Kraftwerk, The Human League, Depeche Mode, Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb.) 

Andreas E.P.  

https://covenant-swe.bandcamp.com/album/andreas-e-p 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2016/06/flavor-of-week-25.html 

The Tear Garden 

www.facebook.com/cevinkey 

( ;D --> Of the numerous side projects cEvin Key has undertaken, The Tear Garden has remained one of the most uniquely celebrated, due in no small part to the creative synergy between him and vocalist/keyboardist Edward Ka-Spel.) 

Astral Elevator (October 24) 

https://brap.bandcamp.com/album/astral-elevator 

Gazelle Twin 

https://gazelletwin.com/ 

https://soundcloud.com/gazelletwin 

www.facebook.com/gazelletwin 

( ;D --> Gazelle Twin is the stage name of Elizabeth Walling, a British Industrial-pop musician from Brighton) 

Mudtown 

https://open.spotify.com/album/0CLFbHHsv1zJI1m9vB31ta 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/11/flavor-of-week-45.html 

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Flavor of the Week #43

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Vakthang 

www.facebook.com/Vakhtang 

https://soundcloud.com/vakhtang_j 

https://moretin.com/ 

( ;D --> Awesome crunchy bassline, punchy kick and mysterious vocals by Vakhtang.) 

One 

https://open.spotify.com/album/1vQnocO7GjxAB6gkzkVKjl 

Paradise Vakthank Remix (Kill Instinct) https://open.spotify.com/track/3VEiIPVe11MI1zWdn57Li5 

Vogue Lounge Mix by Vakhtang 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpRJylWXb9E&list=RDwpRJylWXb9E&start_radio=1 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/01/flavor-of-week-4.html 

Potochkine 

www.facebook.com/potochkine 

( ;D --> Potochkine, two souls, a powerful spell. Of love and anger. The tenebrous chant of a powerful voice, the tense rhythmic tension of EBM and techno and the poetry as spells cast.)

Sang d'Encre

https://potochkine.bandcamp.com/album/sang-dencre 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/08/flavor-of-week-33.html 

Flesh 

https://soundcloud.com/fleshhorrornoisebeat 

www.facebook.com/fleshhorrornoisebeat 

( ;D --> Underground Witch House from Hamburg-Altona.) 

Phenomenon 

https://soundcloud.com/fleshhorrornoisebeat/phenomenon 

Nachtangst 

https://soundcloud.com/fleshhorrornoisebeat/sets/nachtangst 

Sonnenfinsternis (the instrumentals)

https://fleshhorrornoisebeat.bandcamp.com/album/sonnenfinsternis-the-instrumentals 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2020/05/flavor-of-week-19.html 

Noromakina 

https://noromakina.bandcamp.com/ 

( ;D -->  Noromakina is an electronic solo project formed in Bogotá Colombia in 2019 by Juan Manuel A.k.a Mel Zb. Noromakina’s main focus is on making darkwave, electro post-punk and synthwave looking for lo-fi sounds, and for this purpose he uses machines with classic and modern synthesizers, processed with dark and reverberant effects.) 

Dopamine 

https://noromakina.bandcamp.com/track/dopamine 

Mia 

https://noromakina.bandcamp.com/album/mia 

Nurse with Wound 

https://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/NurseWithWound 

( ;D --> Nurse With Wound has been Steven Stapleton’s main musical outlet for some 30 years. He has also appeared on records by other artists and worked as a producer, remixer and, more recently, a critcially acclaimed soundtrack composer. As well as his musical output Stapleton is a highly accomplished and renowned painter and sculptor often working under the guise of ‘Babs Santini’. There are now over 50 full-length NWW titles. Stapleton’s eclectic tastes in art, film and music is often reflected in the broad and often unpredictable and unlikely music of NWW, the output of which draws directly on nearly every musical genre imaginable yet consistently retains a distinctively and recognizable Nurse With Wound ‘sound’. Although Stapleton has sole curatorship of NWW, the group has a long and illustrious list of collaborators including Diana Rogerson, Jim Thirlwell (Foetus), David Jackman (Organum), The Hafler Trio, Stereolab, Jim O’Rourke, Sunn O))), William Bennett (Whitehouse), Robert Haigh, Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade), Christoph Heemann, Faust, Annie Anxiety (Crass), Coil, Eberhard Kranemann (Kraftwerk, Neu!), Malian singer/songwriter Boubacar Traoré and, most regularly, David Tibet (Current 93).) 

Healsgebedda Budgerigar 

www.nursewithwound.co.uk/shop/healsgebedda-budgerigar-analogue-postcard-exclusive 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/04/flavor-of-week-17.html 

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