Duet Emmo – the sole collaboration between The Normal’s Daniel Miller, and Wire’s Edvard Graham Lewis and B.C. Gilbert – will play their world premiere performance together, nearly 45 years after they first assembled in Blackwing Studio in London to record Or So It Seems. Miller, Lewis and Gilbert will perform as part of the In The Round series at the ICA, London on Tuesday 27 October using d&b Soundscape, the venue’s 360° spatial soundsystem and you ca nnow consider yourselves notified….

Here’s the album they made via the magic of Bandcamp and you’ll find more about tickets and such down there underneath it should you need to fo get excited about the sound of an ARP2600 or whatever it is they are using..

Tickets will be available from 10am UK time on Friday 28 August via this link….

“Or So It Seems, an assemblage of electronic sound collage, drone and abstract art pop, was recorded by Daniel Miller (The Normal / Silicon Teens and founder of Mute), Edvard Graham Lewis and B.C. Gilbert (of Wire, Dome and solo projects) in the periods between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day in ’81 and ’82 with legendary engineer Eric Radcliffe at their favoured studio, Blackwing in London. All three were incredibly busy with their day jobs, meaning this recording was their only album together.

Duet Emmo’s pioneering hybrid electronics are mirrored in the project name – an anagram of Mute and Dome – and in the album’s striking artwork, a collage by supreme animators and filmmakers, the Brothers Quay redesigned by Bart van Damme. 

A long-awaited release of the album, remastered from the original analogue tapes by Stefan Betke and expanded to double vinyl is available now on Mute…” Here’s some more links (hey, ain’t we damn useful sometimes)

Duet Emmo are: B.C. Gilbert / Edvard Graham Lewis / Daniel Miller