From: gbloom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gregory Bloom)
Subject: Women in Space, Deux Filles
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In article <Dec.28.21.49.48.1992.19364@pilot.njin.net> vickie@pilot.njin.net (Vickie Mapes) writes:
>gbloom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gregory Bloom) writes:
>
>
>>Does anybody know the straight dope on Deux Filles?  A friend just got
>>a CD of their tunes.
>
>AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! A *CD*!!!????!!!! Please, oh please,
>oh (I'd get down on my knees except I couldn't reach the keyboard)
>pleaseplease*PLEASE* find out where your friend found such a very
>wonderous thing, if there are any more and how might I be ever
>so truly lucky to get one of my very own.....
>
>At the very least, a label and order number, possibly an address
>somehwere in the CD booklet?? PleaseohPlease???
>
>I've never ever *heard* of Deux Filles having a CD released. I'm
>wondering if it's a re-release of their old albums or a new one
>(SWOON, it can't be true, I've died and gone to etheral heaven
>if it is.)
>
>I don't even have an LP of theirs. I've got a dubofadubofadub thingy.
>I've got _Silence and Wisdom_ and _Double Happiness_.
>
>>  Inside is a bio of the lives of two allegedly
>>starcrossed women, who are rumored to have possibly vanished by
>>spontaneous human combustion.  Yeah, right.
>
>I'd believe it. :-)
>
>>The photographs appear to me to be a couple guys in drag.  The tunes
>>are mellow and spacey, but I could not imagine them having been produced
>>by young women.
>
>(say what?)
>
>>(Are there any women who produce space music outside
>>of, say, Enya?)
>
>Yeah. Lots. 

Like, uh, frinstance whom?  Don't say 'Wendy Carlos'.  Okay I'm sure
there are plenty of women who do sweet tinkly winds and water kinds of
space music.  I guess I make an unconscious distinction between such
fluff and more, uh, cerebral space music.  Deux Filles sounds more like
Jarre or Tangerine Dream.  It has a definite testosterone smell about it.

>What does that have to do with Deux Filles though? They don't
>make "space music." They make "Ethereal Weirdness Music." Just judging
>by the albums I have, "Hearts of Space" wouldn't touch them with a 1000
>foot pole. Can you honestly picture MftHoS playing a song like, or titled,
>"Albert the Mud Fish" (sounds exactly like you might expect a mud fish to
>sound, only more ethereal)?
> 
>Thanks in advance for any information you can obtain. I can't tell you
>how much I'd appreciate it. Deux Filles was one of those groups that
>I thought would forever be in my "NeverOnCD" list.
>

I happen to have in my grubby little hands a CD titled 'Silence & Wisdom'.
My friend got it from JB&H Discs and Tapes here in Denver:
11961 Alameda Avenue, Lakewood, CO  80228   (303) 989-3210.
(One of the most complete stores in the world, BTW.  I'm sure they would
be more than willing to ship to you in return for plasticated payment).

In the liner notes, it rambles on about theories of what happened to the
pair after 1984, when all contact with them was lost.  Says the French
Foreign Legion found a charred cottage with a partially burnt letter
from them (conveniently singed around the edges so as to preserve
readability - there is a photo of it), giving rise to the last theory
about spontaneous human combustion.  The liner goes on to say:

"As yet these are merely theories and help is needed desperately.  If you
have any clues or think you might have sighted Deux Filles please do not
hesitate in contacting us.  Please write to:

Trident Music International
PO Box 2903
London  N1 3NE"

They also say 'Please send SAE (not SASE?) for catalogue'.

I think it is all a scam.  Nothing sells music like a good story.
People are especially fond of listening to dead artists.  I think
they are just trying to move some otherwise okay space music by
slathering on a bit of lagniappe.

Gregory Bloom
gbloom@nyx.cs.du.edu