DUET EMMO today announces the long-awaited reissue of the 1983 album,
Or So It Seems. This is the sole collaboration between The Normal’s
Daniel Miller, and Wire’s
Edvard Graham Lewis and
B.C. Gilbert.
Or So It Seems will be released
August 19 on double vinyl, CD, and digital platforms.
This reissue has been recently remastered from the original analog tapes by
Stefan Betke and is available on vinyl for the first time since its original release. It is expanded to double vinyl to include the 8-minute re-mixed 12” B-side version of the title track,
“Heart of Hearts (Or So It Seems).” Listen to the title track, a visionary electronic ballad,
here.
In addition to CD and digital formats,
Or So It Seems will be released on special edition white vinyl and as a limited edition of 400 on orange vinyl via Bleep (both with high definition download). Pre-order
here.
The original 8-track album, an assemblage of electronic sound collage, drone, and abstract art pop, is perfect for re-appraisal, having been previously a somewhat overlooked album from its makers’ catalogs. Daniel Miller (The Normal / Silicon Teens and founder of Mute), Edvard Graham Lewis, and B.C. Gilbert (of Wire, Dome, and solo projects) were busy with their own individual work but made time for the new trio to record in the periods between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day in ’81 and ’82 with legendary engineer Eric Radcliffe at their favored studio, Blackwing, in London.
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, and redesigned by
Bart van Damme.
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