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Vinyl with light scuffs and hairlines, close to VG+. Cover with slightly bumped corners. With booklet.

Green translucent vinyl.

2022 reissue. Still in shrink but opened with hype sticker. Clear and splattered vinyl seem unplayed.

Still sealed with hype sticker. Orange vinyl Limited edition.

Sealed copy!

Vinyl seems unplayed. Cover has tiny corner wear. Limited edition.

Sealed copy with a bumped corner!

Clear w/ Red [Blood] Splatter Vinyl.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a beginning seam split at the upper edge.
Includes original inner sleeves with seam splits.

Note: INCOMPLETE!
Record 1: Side A is missing!

Copy is close to NM.

close to NM

Cover with slightly bumped corners

Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

Gatefold cover with small, beginning seam split! Records with a few scratches!
Original inner sleeves with seam splits!

Red Vinyl.
Includes original inner sleeves.
Records are close to NM. Box with edge wear.

Clear Vinyl.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover as new with slightly dented corners.
Includes poster.

Record is close to NM.

Still sealed. tiny wear

Limited Edition. No. 1467/5764

All three innersleeves, sleeves and the box have splits at the bottom. Includes 10 monochrome photo prints.

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover as new with slightly dented corners.

Vinyl with a couple of very small bumps, otherwise NM.

Creole poetry, folk mysticism and heavy-grooving cosmic synths combine on this unprecedented survey of spiritual Martinique polymath Gratien Midonet’s first four albums.



“I always broke free from the rules, from codes being too narrow,” says poet, musician and sonic shaman Gratien Midonet. “I have always had this sense of peaceful knowledge that there is no separation between genres, beings and universal things.”



For Midonet, pushing musical boundaries was less a choice than an extension of his spirit. A self-taught guitarist and composer,



drawing on his childhood memories of bélé and beguine rhythms, Midonet’s musical life developed in parallel to his academic and spiritual pursuits. Studying philosophy and psychopedagogy in France, it was his fascination with pan-Africanism and animism which fuelled the transcendent energy of his music. Although Midonet honed his sound in France, the four albums he released during the



late ‘70s and ‘80s were heavily inspired by diasporic nostalgia, or what he describes as the “smells and colours… subliminal noises… fruity notes, the memories of funeral wakes, the bombastic organ of the cathedral and the gasps of the drums” of his childhood home on the Caribbean island of Martinique.



Fittingly, it’s there that Midonet achieved cult status for the title track of his 1979 debut, Van An Lévè, which became a protest anthem for the island’s independence movement, and was briefly censored by the French authorities. Look no further than ‘Mari Rhont Ouve La Pot’, which opens this collection, to hear the propulsive mix of cosmic synths, acoustic folk, and Creole lyricism that became the essence of Midonet’s sound. Released on Martinique label Touloulou, Van An Lévè was followed in 1980 by L’inité, whose tropical acid folk (‘M’en ka Monté Mon’) and majestic, violin-led melodies (‘Kannaval Sakré Pou Tout Z’Heb Poussé’) confirmed Midonet’s unique and intuitive approach to composition.



Not content to skip effortlessly between genres and influences, Midonet also began pushing the boundaries of the album form itself. His third album, Bourg La Folie, released in 1984, was a soundtrack for a lost film about the mysticisms of carnival, while his fourth, Fô Ou Tchimbé, took the form of a ‘conte musical’ (a narrated story accompanied by music) presented at the Pompidou Centre, and spoke to Midonet’s literary prowess as a fierce proponent of the Creole language.

close to NM. With insert

Green vinyl

Cover with beginning of seam split on top spine

Still in shrink but opened. Golden vinyl Limited edition.

Still sealed with hype sticker.

Still sealed.

tiny wear. With insert

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a beginning seam split at the upper edge.
Records are close to VG+

Close to NM.

Limited Edition.

Includes original inner sleeve with beginnig seam split.

tiny wear. With insert.

Cover with beginning of seam split on top spine

White vinyl!