Duet Emmo

Duet Emmo took shape as a side venture from guitarist Bruce Gilbert and vocalist Edvard Graham Lewis, both members of the London-based industrial groups Dome and Wire, and was devised in tandem with Daniel Miller, founder of the independent synth-pop imprint Mute. The project’s dense electronic explorations ended abruptly after the 1982 appearance of its sole progressive rock album, Or So It Seems, whose seventeen-minute centerpiece, the texturally intense “Long Sledge,” closed the endeavor. Gilbert maintained his association with Miller’s label through subsequent solo releases: This Way in 1984, The Shivering Man in 1987, Insiding in 1991, and Ab Ovo in 1996. He would later collaborate with Paul Kendall and Robert Hampson. Miller also served as producer for Wire’s return to the studio on the 1986 album Snakedrill.