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2 disc set with over 2 and a half hours of special features including companion documentary on 4AD graphic designer Chris Bigg and his work with The Wolfgang Press

WHAT YOU COULD NOT VISUALISE is an intimate portrait of the legendary 4AD band REMA-REMA. REMA-REMA were part of the initial wave of post punk bands that formed around 1978-1980 after the demise of punk. The band’s innovative and unique sound made them equals to the bands we all know today like Joy Division, The Fall, Wire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cure, Throbbing Gristle and many more. As REMA-REMA, Mark Cox, Mick Allen, Gary Asquith, Marco Pirroni, and Dorothy Max Prior played only 11 gigs around London in 1979 and split up before their one and only record Wheel in the Roses had come out in 1980 on the iconic and revered record label 4AD. No footage exists of the band live and only a handful of photos and rehearsal tapes survive, creating a myth around the band that still exists today. Forty-three years and twenty minutes of recorded music later, REMA-REMA has been resurrected and the band’s innovative and unique sound has never sounded more relevant. As 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell notes, “One of the great post-punk bands was over before it had begun.” This film firmly puts REMA-REMA back in their rightful place in the history of post-punk music. Director Marco Porsia of the highly acclaimed documentary on Swans (WHERE DOES A BODY END?, 2019) goes on an archeological exploration to resurrect the band’s unique history/story and find the driving forces behind their ground breaking sound through exclusive interviews featuring 4AD founder Ivo, Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Steve Albini (Big Black), John Robb (The Membranes), Bruce Pavitt (SubPop), JG Thirlwell (Foetus), Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster (Malaria!), and Rema-Rema themselves.