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

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