Camino del Sol hotel, Palm Beach

Welcome welcome. This is only adding to the vast number of music blogs out there, I suppose, but the more the merrier, I say. I hope people enjoy the music here and are encouraged to share their love, too.

Anyway, 'nuff of dat. On with the music . .

If you're apt to go out, you may have noticed a lovely edit by Todd Terje going round of Antena's 'Camino del Sol'. Antena were a French three piece who were around in the early 80s and actually put out an album on Factory (through their Benelux division!).

It seems a very open time musically (I say *seems* 'cos I was only 7 at the time) - and in Antena you can hear a real mix of sounds and influences. It's Latin, of course, but at the same time New Wave, electronic and, yet, a very French sound influenced by the likes of Francoise Hardy and Jane Birkin. You can also hear echoes of their contemporaries like ACR.

Their lovely electro-bossa sound in a lot of ways foreshadows the likes of Stereolab and Saint Etienne, and even the more modern interpretations of bossa from the likes of EBTG and Bebel Gilberto. Sadly, they did not exist in their three-piece form for long - releasing one album 'Camino del Sol' before separating. Isabella Antena (the lead) still records but has gone all a bit smooth for my liking - there's none of the fragile beauty of the early recordings.

Here's another track of the album, well worth tracking down - it's had a CD reissue as far as I know - but make sure you do try and get it, whatever format you're after. Enjoy - more soon.


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