I first heard Antena by the lovely Isabelle Antena on this compilation by Thievery Corporation. Immediately I fell for the sunny smile in her voice, rainclouds disappear when the Belgian singer parts her lips. I started digging for old records, found a few (we're talking late nineties), but none with Antena on it. I mentioned the song and the singer to bossahouse-meister Dirk of Buscemi, which triggered (at least, I think it did) his search for Isabelle. He found her in the south of France, they recorded some songs - two of them appeared on his Camino Real album. Earlier on, the very nice Antena-compilation L'Alphabet du Plaisir came out - that had the song Antena on it. Isabelle Powaga (her real name) was part of the post-punk outfit Antena in the late eighties (see Pitchfork review of the reissue), but moved more towards jazz and bossa. Last year, Easy Does It was released, accompanied by great remixes. Isabelle has a blog too.Isabelle's La Pecheresse a la Ligne, remixed by Buscemi:
seaside weekend moet je hebben. dat is de beste.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenSimply lovely. Been long troubled by the difficulty to find albums by her and Clementine, though the situation's improving now. Sometimes the Japanese don't know how lucky they are. Japanese imports are so expensive here! So I always passed. N :)
BeantwoordenVerwijderenisabelle antena is one of the best frensh singuer İ know.she is simply lovely and her voice so delicate!! İ love her and hope to find more of her discs in belgium because sometimes very hard to find it! İsabelle Good luck we love u
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