Catalog#: Pulp 32
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1983
DISCOGS AMAZON (2013 reissue)
[Black Side]
A1 Air Tube
A2 Little Brown Jig
A3 Tongues
A4 Shalama
A5 The Sun On The Sea
A6 Interlude
A7 The Snow Falls And The Village Is Overflowing With Children
[Boy Side]
B1 Our English Friends
B2 Piroette
B3 The Third Movement
B4 Play Room
B5 Starboard She Said
B6 Los Estrallas
B7 Albert The Mud Fish
B8 Who Art In Heaven
B9 Shackleford Breeze
B10 2 Blind 2 See
B11 Zazinthos
bio.
The short, mysterious career of aptly named French female duo Deux Filles is bookended by tragedy. Gemini Forque and Claudine Coule met as teenagers on a holiday pilgrimage to Lourdes, during which Coule's mother died of an incurable lung disease and Forque's mother was killed and her father paralyzed in a grisly auto accident. The two teens bonded over their shared grief and worked through their bereavement with music. However, after recording two critically acclaimed albums and playing throughout Europe and North America, Forque and Coule disappeared without a trace during a trip to Algiers in 1984, where Forque had lived from birth to the age of five. In the ensuing years, not a trace of the duo has surfaced, except for a mysterious letter purportedly written by Coule claiming that the pair journeyed to India on a spiritual quest, only to meet with further hardships. Indeed, the short and terribly unhappy lives of Forque and Coule are at the root of the small but fervent cult following the mysterious duo have gained since their disappearance, not least because the placid, largely instrumental music on the duo's albums betrays no hint of the sorrow that framed their personal lives.
from LTM Recordings
Deux Filles - Silence And Wisdom + Double Happiness (2xCD) [LTMCD 2577]
Full Biography & Colin Lloyd Tucker interview
