Camino del Sol

by Antena

Overview

One of the lesser stars in the Factory Records universe, Antena were a mutant anomaly, a chance meeting of Jobim samba and Young Marble Giants electro-pop austerity. Camino del Sol collects every single and the lone EP of the same title that they would produce. Few heard them in the early '80s when they were around, partially because they were stuck in the wasteland of Factory Benelux, the Belgian little brother of the main Factory operation in Manchester that never had the sway of its elder. It probably didn't help that Young Marble Giants spinoff group Weekend and labelmates A Certain Ratio were plying a similar fusion of Latin rhythms and pop song structure, although neither produced an end result as intimate or insular as that of Antena. Isabella Antena's chanteuse-whisper vocals provide one of the clues to the group's uniqueness, as do the pencil-thin synth lines and genteel bossa nova drum machine patterns -- both of which sound out of place among their contemporaries, with the exception of John Foxx, but have a revelatory quality in light of groups that have come since; think Smokey & Miho, Adult., Kahimi Karie, Arto Lindsay, even Beck. Added to the wonder of this rediscovery are great liner notes and a respectable package that harks back to Factory's heyday. ~ Wade Kergan

Product Details

Release Date:	06/15/2010
Label:	NUMERO
UPC:	0656605979915

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Antena   Primary Artist
Isabelle Antena   Vocoder,Vocals,Guitar,Piano,Keyboards
Steven Brown   Saxophone
Pascale Moiroud   Vocals
Sylvain Fasy   Guitar,Saxophone
Frankie Saenen   Drums
Jair Moreira   Latin Percussion

Technical Credits

Antena   Producer
Ken Shipley   A&R,Producer,Liner Notes,Reissue Producer
Jacques Demy   Composer
Antonio Carlos Jobim   Composer
Gilles Martin   Engineer
Giles Martin   Engineer
Norman Gimbel   Composer
Frank Brinkhuis   Liner Notes
Benoit Hennebert   Photography,Cover Design
Pascale Moiroud   Composer,Musician
Alex Legrand   Composer
Gareth Jones   Engineer,Engineer
Sylvain Fasy   Composer,Musician
Gimbel   Composer
Blaine L. Reininger   String Arrangements
Vinicius de Moraes   Composer
John Foxx   Producer
Isabelle Antena   Drum Programming,Musician,Composer
Martin Hayles   Demo Engineer
Michel Legrand   Composer