Deux Filles

The short, mysterious career from the aptly named female France duo Deux Filles is bookended by tragedy. Gemini Forque and Claudine Coule fulfilled as teens at any occasion pilgrimage to Lourdes, where Coule’s mother passed away of the incurable lung disease and Forque’s mom was wiped out and her dad paralyzed within a grisly car crash. The two teenagers bonded over their distributed grief and proved helpful through their bereavement with music. Nevertheless, after documenting two critically acclaimed albums and playing throughout European countries and THE UNITED STATES, Forque and Coule vanished without a track in North Africa in 1984 throughout a trip to go to Algiers, where Forque got lived from delivery to age five. Ideas from abduction and murder to a well planned disappearance to spontaneous individual combustion have already been floated, however in the ensuing years, not really a track from the duo provides turned up aside from a mysterious notice purportedly compiled by Coule declaring the fact that set journeyed to India on the spiritual quest, and then meet with additional hardships. Certainly, the brief and terribly unsatisfied lives of Forque and Coule are in the main of the tiny but fervent cult following a mysterious duo possess obtained since their disappearance, not really least as the placid, mainly instrumental music around the duo’s albums betrays no hint from the sorrow that framed their personal lives. This might be considered a terribly unfortunate tale if a phrase from it had been true. The truth is, Deux Filles had been Simon Fisher Turner, previous child superstar/teenager idol and potential soundtrack composer, and his partner Colin Lloyd Tucker. Turner and Tucker still left an early on incarnation from the The in 1981 to pursue another musical path. Turner promises that the thought of Deux Filles found him within a wish, and he and Tucker totally preserved the fiction through the entire duo’s career. Not merely did they create in move for the record addresses, the duo once also played live with no audience realizing the fact that tragic French young ladies on-stage had been actually a set of blokes from south London developing a giggle. Deux Filles released two albums through Turner and Tucker’s Papier Mache label, 1982’s Silence & Intelligence and 1983’s Increase Happiness. From then on, the duo scrapped the Deux Filles idea and released two ambient pop albums as Jeremy’s Top secret.