The short, mysterious career of the aptly named 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 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 in North Africa in 1984 during a trip to visit Algiers, where Forque had lived from birth to the age of five.
Theories from abduction and murder to a planned disappearance to spontaneous human combustion have been floated, but in the ensuing years, not a trace of the duo has turned up 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.
Boy Side
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
Girl Side
B1 The Draw In Room
B2 She Slides
B3 Fleur’s Dolls
B4 Mortuary
B5 The City Sleeps
B6 Birds
B7 Silence And Wisdom
B8 Festival
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 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 in North Africa in 1984 during a trip to visit Algiers, where Forque had lived from birth to the age of five.
Theories from abduction and murder to a planned disappearance to spontaneous human combustion have been floated, but in the ensuing years, not a trace of the duo has turned up 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.
Boy Side
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
Girl Side
B1 The Draw In Room
B2 She Slides
B3 Fleur’s Dolls
B4 Mortuary
B5 The City Sleeps
B6 Birds
B7 Silence And Wisdom
B8 Festival
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