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01. Pau Riba - La Lluna, La Pruna
02. Pau Riba - Mesquinet
03. Pau Riba - La Marramua
04. Pau Riba - Mel
05. Pau Riba - Mama Nen
06. Pau Riba - L'avioloncel
07. Pau Riba - Donya Mixeires (Maqueires O No Maqueires, Taqueiro Donya Mixeiro)
08. Pau Riba - Jo, La Donya I El Gripau
09. Pau Riba - La Vella Del Fons Del Pou
10. Pau Riba - Ora Catalina
11. Pau Riba - La Dansa De La Terra (Instrumental)
12. Pau Riba - Llàgrimes I Petons
13. Pau Riba - La Lluna, La Pruna
ARTIST
TITLE
Jo, La Donya I El Gripau
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MR 510LP MR 510LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/30/2026

As a follow-up to Munster's previous work reissuing the recordings of Pau Riba, key figure in Catalonia's counter-culture and music scene, the label now presents Jo, la donya I el gripau (1971). Released just a couple of years after his revered Dioptria, this remarkable work is regarded as one of the earliest D.I.Y. albums in the history of Spanish pop music. At the time, Riba was only 23 years old. Escaping an increasingly hostile Barcelona, Riba and his partner, Mercè Pastor, moved to Formentera, where they would spend the next four years. The album was conceived during this period of "hippie" living. As they became part of a growing community of young people drawn to the island by a new, nature-centered way of life -- completely different from that of the tourists who also visited Formentera -- they also discovered LSD. Playing and singing under the influence of acid opened the door to an entirely new creative universe. When Riba returned to Barcelona, the ideas he had originally developed for the follow-up to Dioptria before moving to Formentera were completely abandoned, and the project evolved into something altogether different. The album was recorded in Formentera using two battery-powered film sound recorders -- a Revox and a Nagra -- in order to capture every nuance of the island's idyllic surroundings. The result was Jo, la donya i el gripau, an extraordinary psychedelic folk album that not only celebrated Riba's life with his partner Mercè -- the Donya -- and the birth of their son Pauet -- the gripau -- but can also be understood as the concluding chapter of a trilogy whose first two installments were the two volumes of Dioptria. An essential album. Includes an insert with liner notes and photos.