Rema Rema (or records you recently found that you've been searching fucking AGES for)

REMA REMA - First (real) 4AD release re-issued on CD

23 years after this record launched 4AD as a label under Ivo's exclusive guidance, REMA-REMA's 'Wheel In The Roses' is being re-issued in a strictly limited edition of 1000 CD's.

I recently got The Cravats first single, which I have been looking for for about 20 years.

That said, apparently Renegade Soundwave, Marco Pirroni, Adam Ant, and ex-Wolfgang Press guys have all stayed pretty close to this day.. according to Ascquith's label Le Coq Musique.

dude, post the link to that interview with the guy from Wide Boy Awake who was also part of that circle. I posted it to the RSW thread.

about to go watch Adam Ant in Jubilee...

It's always nice to hear of new converts to Rema Rema. Welcome, Ned.

I actually meant to watch Jubilee again a few months ago and then it slipped my mind. Haven't seen it for nearly 10 years now.

Greatest EP ever?

Just realizing that, for each of the four songs, there's something the band is deliberately "holding back" doing purely to infuriate. I kinda take back the Swans comparison. They were more like Flipper in approach, though very different in delivery. But both bands knew exactly what they were doing as for their, for lack of better term, mission.

I never realized that the up-tempo part of "Feedback Song" matches the frequency of the tremelo electronic noise! (which then falls out of it without warning.)

Hmm, I should give this a relisten. That and the Mass reissue.

I sold mine when I was broke last year, then instantly regretted it.

You could only get this CD reissue through the 4AD online shop.

Do they have any left I wonder? Not that I care, I have one.

I got this 12" for less than a fiver inc shipping on Ebay a couple of years ago, did I just get really lucky or something?

No, but that Big Black single cover version is the $80 thing.

Great interview with Gary Asquith about his younger/punk days

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-strange-elevation/

and, unreleased rema rema tracks on 7"!!

http://inflammablematerial.bigcartel.com/product/rema-rema-international-scale-7-defiant-pose-8

That looks fantastic! Was a time I'd go to record stores and empty out the 4AD bin.

Hope I can still get my hands on this when I get out of prison.

A fun idea that would encourage people to buy hard copy is including real artwork and published material.

http://i.imgur.com/BJy2LP4.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BjphnoC9Og

Well I am all about this

https://4ad.com/releases/892

The debut album that never was, Fond Reflections, comes almost forty years after their debut EP and has been culled from the band’s rich archive of reel-to-reel and cassette recordings, with member Gary Asquith and mixing engineer Takatsuna Mukai painstakingly working on them to make this collection as cohesive as possible. The ten tracks pretty much reflect the band’s live set and is the closest to what their debut album could have sounded like. Worth noting too that although all their 1980 EP tracks are present on this album, they are different recordings.

The CD edition comes with a second disc entitled Extended Wheel in the Roses. As its title suggests, it’s the four EP tracks as they were plus ‘Entry’ (taken from the same studio session as the EP’s A-side of ‘Feedback Song’ and ‘Rema-Rema’) and ‘No Applause’ and ‘Murdermuzic’, two more tracks recorded at the same Albany Empire, London show in 1979 as the EP’s B-side, ‘Instrumental’ and ‘Fond Affections’.

oh my! I thought everything that existed had been put out over the last few years but i am so psyched to hear there is more.

Yeah, totally with you there -- what a find.

wow, thanks for the heads up here

If I remember correctly from some interview or chat with Gary, the aforementioned murdermuzic ended up as Murder Music on RSW’s Soundclash, one of my all time favorite songs, so I’m pretty psyched to hear this.

This is very cool news, I dig the single a lot. Their eponymous song always seems to elicit a 'who's this?!' reaction when it pops up in mixed company.

Very good article on Rema-Rema as the What You Could Not Visualise documentary is released
https://warpedrealitymagazine.com/2023/02/visualizing-rema-rema.html

(trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umjV8Py27FY