One of the outside projects by guitarist
Bruce Gilbert and vocalist
Edvard Graham Lewis of London-based industrial bands,
Dome and
Wire,
Duet Emmo was conceived with and produced by
Daniel Miller, owner of independent, synth pop record label,
Mute. The heavily electronic
Duet Emmo experiment was canceled shortly after releasing a progressive rock album,
Or So It Seems, featuring the 17-minute, texturally intense "Long Sledge," in 1982.
Gilbert continued to record for
Miller's label, releasing
This Way in 1984, The Shivering Man in 1987, Insiding in 1991, and Ab Ovo in 1996. He later worked with
Paul Kendall and
Robert Hampson.
Miller produced
Wire's comeback album, Snakedrill, in 1986. ~ Craig Harris