Isabelle Antena

After Belgian electro-samba wunderkinds Antena split at the end of 1985, singer Isabelle Antena immediately shed her cold wave crown for a sophisticated pop princess tiara. On 1986’s Martin Hayles-produced En Cavale, echos of Madonna and city pop abound, with a lipstick stain of L80s Euro dance and spilled cosmopolitan’s worth of bossa nova stirred in for good measure. This elegant second chapter of a French pop diva has been expanded to include Antena’s shelved Island Records demo, adjacent B-sides and rarities, plus an expansive essay and previously unpublished photographs.

• 01 Play Back
• 02 Easy Street
• 03 Seaside Weekend
• 04 Ten Minutes
• 05 How Can They Tell
• 06 Be Pop
• 07 Magic Woods
• 08 Booby Trap
• 09 Life Is Too Short
• 10 Mummy's Not At Home
• 11 Don't Think About It
• 12 Time To Work
• 13 Blow The World Away
• 14 Behind The Door
• 15 Be Pop (12 mix)
• 16 Life Is Too Short (New dance 12)
• 17 Mummy's Not At Home (1983 Island demo)
• 18 Achilles (1983 Island demo)
• 19 Be Pop (1983 Island demo)