Isabelle Antena - Hoping for Love Format:CD A painstaking labour of love

A painstaking labour of love that principally takes Durutti Column and the Cocteau Twins as its key templates and weaves their chiming matrix into a celebratory carnival of lush colour coded ambient structures of the type so rarely heard these days…

After early live shows at venues including Plan K

Storyteller

We will amuse ourselves by orchestrating together in our imagination the din of rolling shop shutters

When Will We Learn (live 1980)

Isabelle Antena - Hoping for Love Format:CD A painstaking labour of loveHoping for Love is the second solo album by Isabelle Antena, originally issued by Les Disques du Crpuscule in March 1987. After Camino Del Sol and En Cavale, Hoping for Love saw Isabelle Antena step left of the dancefloor, expanding her Latin, funk and samba palette to include jazz and acoustic styles. With the originally vinyl running order now restored, the first five tracks offer dance and synth pop tracks, while the second half of Hoping for Love