City of Fear (album) explained
| City of Fear |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | FM |
| Cover: | FM City of Fear.jpg |
| Released: | 1980 |
| Recorded: | Soundstage, Toronto |
| Studio: | House of Music, West Orange, New Jersey
Phase One, Toronto |
| Genre: | Progressive rock |
| Length: | 43:06 |
| Label: | Passport |
| Producer: | Larry Fast |
| Chronology: | FM |
| Prev Title: | Surveillance |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Con-Test |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
City of Fear is the fourth album by FM, a progressive rock group from Toronto, Canada, released in 1980 on Passport Records and distributed in Canada by Capitol Records, catalogue number PB-2028, and in the USA on Passport distributed by Jem Records, catalogue number PB-6004. It was produced by Larry Fast who was notable for his Synergy series of electronic music albums. A remastered edition was released by Esoteric Records (ECLEC2383) on March 25, 2013. The album made a brief appearance at #86 on the Canadian Top 100 Album charts just as the charts changed to a Top 50 ranking.[1]
Track listing
All compositions by FM (Martin Deller, Ben Mink, Cameron Hawkins), all lyrics by Hawkins.
- Side one
- "Krakow" – 4:37
- "Power" – 3:28
- "Truth or Consequences" – 4:13
- "Lost and Found" – 4:25
- "City of Fear" – 5:07
- Side two
- "Surface to Air" – 5:18
- "Up to You" – 4:21
- "Silence" – 3:22
- "Riding the Thunder" – 4:06
- "Nobody at All" – 4:09
Personnel
- Martin Deller – Gretsch drums, Zildjian and Paiste cymbals, glockenspiel, Moog percussion controller with Minimoog, PAiA programmable drum synthesizer, tympani
- Ben Mink – 5 string "bent" mandolin (electric), 5 string "Violite" (electric violin), 5 string viola (acoustic), 1912 "The Gibson" mandolin (acoustic), Fender amplifiers, vocals
- Cameron Hawkins – lead vocals, Mutron and Electro-Harmonix FX pedals, 9.95, Prophet 5, Minimoog, (Moog) Taurus pedals, ELKA (synthesizer), Yamaha grand (piano), Rickenbacker bass, Polyfusion sequencer, Larry's Moog 15 (modular synthesizer), Mellotron
Additional personnel
- Pamela Silverstein – spoken word
Technical credits
- Produced by Larry Fast
- Engineered by Jim Frank and Charles Conrad, assisted by Scott Rea and Cliff Hodsdon
- Production assistance by Ian Murray
- Recorded at Soundstage, Toronto, Canada, and House of Music, West Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Additional material recorded at Phase One, Toronto by Mark Wright
- Mastered by Bub Ludwig at Masterdisk, New York City, USA
- Synthy maintenance by Rob Onedera
- Pre-production with Ed Stone, Ian Dunbar, Jim Frank, Ian Murray, Mark Wright
- Art direction and design: Murray Brenman
- Photography – cover: Eric Staller
- Photography – insider cover: Paul Till
- Photography – stand-ups: Bob Rock (the cover art features time lapse photography using life-size cardboard cut-out images of the group's members)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: RPM Top 100 Albums - November 22, 1980.
