Funk | Soul Used Vinyl 82 Items

Still sealed. Golden vinyl Deluxe edition. tiny wear

Still sealed with hype sticker. Orange Deluxe edition.

Mint + Pink Swirl vinyl has a few paper scuffs. Cover is close to NM. with booklet and insert.

Cover and vinyl are close to NM. With inserts.

Copy close to NM. Copy n° 104/300

Without OBI

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!

close to NM

Red vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

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

Picture Disc, still sealed

Still sealed with hype sticker. Stuffed corners. Limited edition Multi Coloured vinyl. US reissue from 2018.

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

Vinyl is close to NM. tiny wear

Still sealed with hype sticker.

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines

Purple & Black Quad vinyl. Still in shrink, but opened

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

clear vinyl

Clear vinyl

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.

Still in shrink but opened.. Vinyl is close to NM. US reissue from 2018.

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover as new with slightly dented corners.
Records are close to NM.

tiny wear. With insert.

Flexi disc

Yellow Opaque vinyl. Cover close to NM

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a seam split at the upper edge.

Vinyl is close to NM. Original inner sleeves. tiny wear.

Sealed copy with a stuffed / bent corner!

Sealed copy.
Cover corners slightly dented.

Sealed copy.
Cover corners slightly dented.

Limited Edition.
Black Vinyl Edition.

Cover as new with a dented corner.
Record is close to VG+.

Cover with seam split.
Includes original inner sleeve.

Cover and vinyl are close to NM Original inner sleeves. tiny wear.

Sticker residue on front.

Cover close to NM

Still in shrink but opened with hype sticker. Vinyl is close to NM. With insert.

Vinyl close to VG+

Slightly warped vinyl, but still enjoyable (looks almost unplayed). Still in shrink, but opened

Cover with slightly bent corner and light creasing.

Limited edition. Cover and vinyl are close to NM.

Cover with a slightly bent corner!

Cover and vinyl are close to NM.

bent corner

hand stamped white label is close to NM

Record is close to NM.

Vinyl close to VG+

Writing on white labels. Vinyl close to VG+

Small light scuff on side B.