Two Fillies

Deux Filles ‎- Silence & Wisdom [BAH 1 UK 1993 FLAC]

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 succumbed to 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 acclaimed albums and playing throughout Europe and North America, Forque and Coule disappeared without trace during a trip to Algiers in 1984, where Forque had lived from birth to the age of five.

In the years since not a trace of the duo has surfaced, save for a letter purportedly written by Coule which claimed that the pair had 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 both albums betrays no hint of the sorrow that framed their personal lives.

This would be a terribly sad story if a word of it were true...

In reality Deux Filles were Simon Fisher Turner, former child star/teen idol and future soundtrack composer, and songwriter/technician Colin Lloyd Tucker. Turner and Tucker left an early incarnation of The The in 1981 to pursue a different musical direction. Turner claims that the idea of Deux Filles came to him in a dream, and the novel fiction/roleplay would be strictly maintained throughout the girls' short career. As well as posing in costume for the album covers, the duo even performed live without the audience realizing that the girls on-stage were actually a pair of blokes from south London having a giggle.

All of the above is pilfered from the internet.

01 The Letter
02 L'Intrigué
03 Drinking At A Stream
04 Oakwood Green
05 Children Of Clay
06 Sur La Plage
07 Her Masters Voice
08 The Draw In Room
09 She Slides
10 Fleurs Doll
11 Mortuary
12 The City Sleeps
13 Birds
14 Silence & Wisdom
15 Festival