{"product_id":"pau-riba-jo-la-donya-i-el-gripau","title":"Pau Riba - Jo, La Donya I El Gripau","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a follow-up to our previous work reissuing the recordings of \u003cstrong\u003ePau Riba\u003c\/strong\u003e, key figure in Catalonia's counter-culture and music scene, Munster now presents \u003cem\u003e\"Jo, la donya i el gripau\"\u003c\/em\u003e (1971). Released just a couple of years after his revered \u003cem\u003e\"Dioptria\"\u003c\/em\u003e, this remarkable work is regarded as one of the earliest D.I.Y. albums in the history of Spanish pop music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the time, Riba was only 23 years old. Escaping an increasingly hostile Barcelona, Riba and his partner, \u003cstrong\u003eMercè Pastor\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Riba returned to Barcelona, the ideas he had originally developed for the follow-up to \u003cem\u003e\"Dioptria\"\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result was \u003cem\u003e\"Jo, la donya i el gripau\"\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003e\"Dioptria\"\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MUNSTER","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":59163967586649,"sku":"SDZ-51143","price":30.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/SHE_20260826_1125_102642_585_p_Outlook-unrbyqj5_3_001.jpg?v=1787746500","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/pau-riba-jo-la-donya-i-el-gripau","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}