Funk | Soul Used Vinyl 94 Items

White vinyl. Original inner sleeve. Tiny wear.

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

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. 180 gram reissue

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines. Still in shrink, but opened, with hype sticker

Cover close to NM

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Cover close to NM. With photo.

Still sealed with hype sticker. Seam split.

Sticker residue on front.

Copy is close to VG+!

Record Store Day, Limited Edition, Picture Disc, close to VG+

hand stamped white label is close to NM

Red Transparent Vinyl

Cover with corners slightly dented and a beginning seam split at the upper seam. Small light scuff on side C.

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.

Violet vinyl. Cover with bumped corner and light ring wear.

Cover with slightly bent corner and light creasing.

Still shrink wrapped but opened.

Vinyl with light scuffs and hairlines. Cover with a bent corner and light creasing. Copy n° 323 / 500

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

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

Vinyl close to VG+

Limited Edition.
Black Vinyl Edition.

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

Record is close to NM.

Grey vinyl version! Vinyl is close to NM!

Clear vinyl. Includes original inner sleeve.Seems unplayed.

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

CD comes in a soft case, instead of the original crystal case. All booklets included.

Cover with bumped corners.
Still sealed.

white label copy without stamp

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

Cover with a slightly bent corner!

Japanese pressing without thew OBI!

Still sealed. Trifold cover with braille.

Limited edition on yellow vinyl!

Cover is close to NM!

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

tiny wear. With insert.

Limited edition for Record Store Day 2013!

Writing on white labels. Vinyl close to VG+

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

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

Vinyl with a mark on Side C, otherwise NM. Cover with small damage on the back of the spine and slightly bumped upper-left corner.