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- ↑ "Raphael – Music To Disappear In". TheSirensSound. October 2, 2010. Archived from the original on October 5, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
- ↑ Elevator music: a surreal history of Muzak, easy-listening, and other moodsong by Joseph Lanza
- ↑ Elevator music: a surreal history of Muzak, easy-listening, and other moodsong by Joseph Lanza
- ↑ "Over 500,000 albums sold of this megahit."
- ↑ "Kutira and Raphael Decosterd" and
- ↑ Kutira Decosterd
- ↑ spelled Décosterd here
- ↑ http://kahuainstitute.com/kahuainstitute/raphael-kutira
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