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Deux Filles Silence & Wisdom

Dark Entries | Item No: 481930
Vinyl 2LP | 1982 / US – Reissue | New
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Item Description
The short, mysterious career of the female French duo Deux Filles is bookended by tragedy. Gemini Forque and Claudine Coule met as teenagers at 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 an 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 in North Africa in 1984 during a trip to visit Algiers. 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.


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 his mate Colin Lloyd Tucker. Turner and Tucker left an early incarnation of The The in 1981 to pursue another musical direction. Turner claims that the idea of Deux Filles came to him in a dream, and he and Tucker strictly maintained the fiction throughout the duo's career. Not only did they pose in drag for the album covers, the duo once even played live without the audience realizing that the tragic French girls on-stage were actually a pair of blokes from south London. Deux Filles released two albums through Turner and Tucker's Papier Mache label, 1982's Silence & Wisdom and 1983's Double Happiness. Both albums are included here and blend watery piano, occasionally ghostly vocals, sheets of synthesizers, heavily processed guitars and the barest minimum of percussion. Drifting and wistful, they’re a pair of lost ambient gems from a time when the genre had yet to mature, an excellent example of post-Eno, pre-Orb ambient music.


All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in gatefold sleeve with original front covers of both albums, and a centerfold of archive images and the original liner notes. Each LP includes a sticker of the Lino cuts by Adrian Gill that was included with the original pressing.
Item Details
Item No: 481930
Artist: Deux Filles
Title: Silence & Wisdom
Label: Dark Entries
Catalog No: DE 120
Format: Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Reissue
Release Date: 1982
Genre: Pop
Style: 1980s
Available since: 2016-06-07
Condition: New
Price: $ 26.34
Weight: 500g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 The Letter
A2 L'intrigue
A3 Drinking At A Stream
A4 Oakwood Green
A5 Children Of Clay
A6 Sur La Plage
A7 Her Masters Voice
B1 The Draw In Room
B2 The Slides
B3 Fleur's Dolls
B4 Mortuary
B5 The City Sleeps
B6 Birds
B7 Silence & Wisdom
B8 Festival
C1 Our English Friends
C2 Piroette
C3 The Third Movement
C4 Play Room
C5 Starboard She Said
C6 Los Estrellas
C7 Albert The Mud Fish
C8 Who Art In Heaven
C9 Shackleford Breeze
C10 Blind 2 See
C11 Zazinthos
D1 Little Brown Jig
D2 Tounges
D3 Shalama
D4 The Sun On The Sea
D5 Interlude
D6 The Snow Falls & The Village Is Overflowing With Children
D7 Double Happiness
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