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Dear everyone

I hope this message finds you all as well as possible.

Today is another Bandcamp Friday day and I am relaunching my animal shelter and rescue appeal with renewed conviction. As stated in my last message, two new things this month:

• I am including not just “Conditional” in the appeal, but also the A Flame Variations: Live in the Moog Soundlab EP, recorded in Asheville, NC, back in november 2017. Moog gave me the honor of inviting me to their famous studio located next to their factory to mark the end of production of the Moogerfoogers, which led me to reinterpreting some of the songs from my 6th album A Flame my Love, a Frequency through a daisychain of MF-101 Lowpass Filter, MF-102 Ring Modulator, MF-103 12-Stage Phaser and MF-104M Analog Delay, with the last song also using the CP251 Control Processor.

Moog were very generous to me throughout those years, and now that an uncertain chapter opens for the company , I feel super grateful for what they gave me (literally and, on a deeper level, musically) and it feels just right to somehow give back for a bigger cause. 

• From now on, I will tell you which organization your funds will go to for this particular Bandcamp Friday (and month – the appeal is always ongoing), as opposed to me choosing the organization the following month, which is what I did previously.

This month, I have chosen to highlight one of the animal causes that most breaks my heart, the tragic situation of Spanish greyhounds (galgos), who are used in Spain as hunting dogs and – because of a scandalous loophole in Spanish law, which even more scandalously was not rectified in the recent animal welfare reform – are not protected by  animal laws as they are literally considered to be “tools”. 

As always, I consider that choosing to look at hard images and read harsh accounts is a very personal choice, so in order to respect every person’s sensitivity, I will just sum up the situation by saying that *each year*, 50,000 galgos are abandoned when they are considered no longer useful for hunting, their fate being in the best case scenario roaming the countryside while starving, and in the worst case scenario a slow death from starvation, disease and wounds often voluntarily inflicted by their “owners”, with frequent cases of violent death.

The Fundación Benjamín Mehnert (Instagram and website here), based in Sevilla, is doing an incredible job rescuing galgos, a complicated endeavour involving capturing the dogs, giving them intensive vet care in many cases, rehabilitating them, then transferring them to foster homes and definitive homes, sometimes across the country, so that these animals can start a totally new life. I hope that like me, you will feel like helping them.

Deep thanks and hugs from Cécile, Sol and Klee.

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