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Japanese pressing with OBI and insert.

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Writing on cover.

Cover with OBI is close to NM Vinyl seems unplayed. Japanese reissue from 1978. Limited edition.

Tears in spines. Original US stereo album.

Japanese pressing, no Obi.

Orignal US pressing!

Cut corner. Barely any ring wear.

US original.
Sleeve has handwriting.

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing. With insert. Few paper scuffs.

record close to VG+

Cover and vinyl are close to NM. Cover is slightly stained.

Copy close to VG+

US original.

Promo copy. Cover with saw cut

Cover has ring-wear.

Die cut cover has cracked corner.

Original US Allied pressing. Close to NM.

Japanese pressing, comes with Obi and inserts. Cover has light foxing.

Japanese pressing, comes with Obi and inserts.

close to NM. Santa Maria pressing

No obi.

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Tiny saw mark in bottom edge.

Japanese pressing with OBI!

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Cover with light wear Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert.

Cover with punch hole

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines. Cover with ring, shelf wear

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Cover with sticker on the back and light wear, closer to VG

Record is close to VG+.

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

Vinyl close to VG+. Cover with ring wear

Still sealed with hype sticker.

Of the 9 DVDs only one case is open and the disc has some scuffs and hairlines. From 2 other sealed cases it´s possible to hear the loose disc and loose pieces of the damaged DVD holder at the center. The box itself has tear and bumped corners.

OBI is missing!

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.

Writing on label sticker.

Cover has corner cut and ringwear.

Writing on cover.

No obi.