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still sealed. No. 1587

Limited edition on yellow vinyl.

Record Store Day 2015 numbered Limited edition reissue on 180 Gram with blue 7"! Still in shrink but opened with hype sticker. Slight corner wear.

Limited Edition.
Record Store Day.
Records are close to NM.

UK reissue from 2019. Copy is close to NM!

Limited Edition, Remastered, Orange Translucent Splatter.

Sealed copy with a bumped corner!

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a beginning seam split at the upper edge.
Record with just a few paper scuffs, close to VG+.

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.

Opaque Yellow 25th anniversary reissue from 2019. Records are close to NM!

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

close to NM

stamped white label is close to NM

few paper scuffs.

Limited Edition.
Safari Green Splattered Vinyl.
Includes poster.
Record is close to NM.

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

Promo hand stamped white label.

Turquoise Blue Vinyl close to NM

Records are close to NM !

Limited Edition.
Safari Green Splattered Vinyl.
Includes poster.
Record is close to NM.

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

Limited Edition. Red Vinyl.

Sealed copy.
Cover as new with slightly dented corners.

Cover is close to NM!

Still in shrink but opened. Vinyl is close to NM. Tiny corner wear.

Orange vinyl is close to NM.

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

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.

Cover with slightly bumped corner, close to NM

Copy closer to NM

Cover closer to NM

US original.

Includes insert.

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

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

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

Cloudy pink translucent vinyl!

Vinyl closer to VG+. Promo copy with white labels

tiny wear. With insert.

"Hot recordings from the golden era of the Italian sexy comedy film scene"! Early Sounds Recordings, in collaboration with the historical Italian label "Eleven" and A. Dallera, puts together a compilation of some of the rarest and sought after disco and funk records inspired by the Italian sexy comedy era.

Deluxe Limited Edition.
Blue Splattered Vinyl.
Copy is close to NM.