Beautiful, delicate bossa nova cosmic oddity!
Bossa Super Nova is the third album from Antena – the French new wave pioneers whose groundbreaking mix of Kraftwerk, Suicide and breezy Gilberto tropicalia sounds as fresh in 2010 as in 1982, when John Foxx produced their classic debut single, The Boy From Ipanema, and Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant labelled them ‘electro-samba’.
For this final volume in the Antena trilogy, is the result of Isabelle and Penelope rummaging through their attic to dust off some classic Roland equipment: the TR-808 drum machine, Bass Line sequencer and SH09 monophonic synth, all of which were used on the classic debut Antena album /Camino Del Sol/ in 1983. Adding to this retro theme, old schoolfriend Jean Christophe Clair was invited to contribute lyrics and ideas in remembrance of times past, á la recherche du tempsperdu. Isabelle Antena then arranged and produced the songs with her husband Denis Moulin at their studio in the south of France, with Marco De Meersman adding extra percussion and Bossa Super Nova was born!