"Antena offered a brave art bossa nova design comparable to Weekend and Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Antena laid the ground for Stereolab and Bebel Gilberto without even knowing it" ( Mojo, 12/2005) Opening track Camino Del Sol sets the mood and could almost be Stereolab, but is so skeletal that the only possible contemporary influence must have been Young Marble Giants. Isabelle Powaga, Sylvain Fasy and Pascale Moiroud formed Antena in 1981, and created a radical and intuitive fusion of bossa nova, archaic samba-jazz and primitive Kraftwerkisms, and signed with Belgian label Crepuscule. The route map of early 1980s indie pop is currently being rewritten on a daily basis and Antena merit a chapter of their own, complementing the similarly unearthed and now highly respected ESG. "This essential collection of their entire recorded output is 2005's most charming musical surprise. "Five songs of sultry splendour" ( NME, 1983) "Wistful, seductive and strangely narcotic… Leads you breathlessly through a lush electronic garden" ( Melody Maker, 1983) The video clip for Boy From Ipanema appears on the DVD collection Umbrellas in the Sun. This definitive expanded edition of Camino Del Sol boasts no less than 16 tracks, with the five songs from the original vinyl issue joined by four issued on The Boy From Ipanema together with a selection of rare demo and compilation tracks.īooklet contains Antena images and liner notes. ![]() ![]() Echoes of the Antena sound can be heard in artists as diverse as Stereolab, Tortoise and Thievery Corporation. Antena's ground breaking mix of Kraftwerk, Suicide and the breezy Gilberto tropicalia still sounds as fresh as it did in 1982, when John Foxx produced their debut 12" single, The Boy From Ipanema, and future Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant tagged them "electro-samba". ![]() Camino Del Sol is an acknowledged genre classic, originally issued as a mini-album on Les Disques du Crépuscule in 1982.
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