Double Happiness

by Deux filles

Double Happiness cover art

Conceived as a highly elaborate art hoax, this profoundly beautiful and enigmatic album was actually created by two British male musicians—Colin Lloyd Tucker and Simon Fisher Turner—posing as tragic French orphans. 'Double Happiness' weaves delicate, melancholic acoustic guitar loops, ethereal choral sampling, and incredibly sparse piano lines into deeply surreal ambient suites. The deeply mysterious, highly conceptual recording remains an absolute masterpiece of early 80s avant-garde experimentation.

Genres

  • Experimental
  • Ambient
  • Sound Collage

Tracklist

  1. Our English Friends
  2. Piroette
  3. The Third Movement
  4. Play Room
  5. Starboard She Said
  6. Los Estrellas
  7. Albert the Mud Fish
  8. Who Art in Heaven
  9. Shackleford Breeze
  10. 2 Blind 2 See
  11. Zazinthos
  12. Air Tube
  13. Little Brown Jig
  14. Tongues
  15. Shalama
  16. The Sun on the Sea
  17. Interlude
  18. The Snow Falls and the Village Is Overflowing with Children
  19. Double Happiness