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1982, Brussels The former au pair for Rick Wakeman of Yes and two of her teenage friends are at the doorstep of Les Disques Du Crepuscule, ready to cut an album with Gilles Martin. Living on busking wages and next door to Tuxedomoon, their work results in a contemporary bossanova record that would provide a missing link between Antonio Carlos Jobim and Kraftwerk. Camino Del Sol was issued and promptly forgotten, with Isabelle Antena moving toward jazz in Asia and the others returning to France. Twenty years later, it was findable only as a VG+ LP with a sticker price of $4.99. Intrigued by the striking cover's sunlit patio furniture emptiness basking in the south of France, we scooped up Camino Del Sol and grouped the extant Antena recordings from that exceptional period by session. Our definitive 2LP reissue of the original five-song mini-LP adds the group's first 12Inch (a cover of Jobim's InchGirl From Ipanema,Inch naturally), the Seaside Weekend 12Inch, compilation tracks, and two previously unissued cuts, recasting this short-lived combo's forward-thinking milemarker as a modern-day masterstroke. Album Tracks 1. Achilles 2. Silly Things 3. Camino Del Sol 4. Bye Bye Papaye 5. Sisséxa 6. The Boy from Ipanema 7. To Climb the Cliff 8. Unable 9. Spiral Staircase 10. Noelle a Hawaii 11. Ingenuous 12. Frantz 13. On the Boat 14. Joppo + Eno 15. Seaside Weekend
