Hoping for Love
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Artist: Isabelle Antena
Label: Ltm / Boutique Nl
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5024545315820
ASIN: B0007735PS
Release Date: 2005-03-22 |
Hoping for Love
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Tracks:
- Le Poisson Des Mers Du Sud
- Quand Le Jazz Entre En Lice
- Melodie
- L'Ideal
- Musique De 4 A 6
- Touter Les Etoiles De Tunesie
- Otra Bebera
- La Tete Contre Les Murs
- Laying On The Sofa
- Naughty Naughty
- Sweet Boy
- Des Calins, Des Caresses
- Carriage Blind
- I Will Jam
- Little Fish From The Southern Sea
- Laying On The Sofa (12 Inch Remix)
- La Tete Contre Les Murs (12 Inch Remix)
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Customer Reviews:
Jazz, bossa, and acid jazz/dance/ from a musical genius.......2005-10-27
I love this album; it is a classic. I've listened to it many hundreds of times and it never loses intensity for me. It was the album that introduced me to Isabelle Antena. Since then I've discovered others that have confirmed to me that she is a major musical talent who has been neglected both here and in France. A look at the discography on her website gives an idea of the incredible output of this artist ... but I want to talk about Hoping for Love.
The best thing about it is Isabelle Antena's wonderful voice: clear, smooth and cool and classy, yet at the same time, soft,warm and intimate. The musicians she uses on this are all excellent jazz musicians. There are many beautiful solos or even short riffs which are perfect for the songs.
Some highlights of the songs:. (I am going by the track order in the LTM reissue from darla records, so it might not be the same as earlier releases): #1-- "Le poisson des mers du sud" is a soft bossa with Isabelle singing at her coolest. The piano joins in after the first verse with a voice of its own. The song is a classic, one which seems to best define her sound. But she has other sounds which I think are equally as good.
#2-4 and 6 are examples of another one of those -- her jazz sound. Lovely tunes in interesting arrangements: great vocals, which alternate between harmonies and solo, and expert instrumentalists. #3, Melodie, is one of my favourites -- I loved it immediately when I heard it. Slipped in between are some returns of the latin beat, with #5 being a small gem of only a little over a minute long. It's a teaser -- but after the breezy jazz of #6, suddenly the latin beat returns and this time it isn't just cool bossa or a teaser, but suddenly in #7, we are in a rainforest or jungle, the tune returns, the drums grow louder and Isabelle's voice seems darker, and richer, singing Otra Bebera, intense and lovely. It steams. Probably my windows become fogged from this, I am too absorbed to check.
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