City of Fear (album)
Introduction '''''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.
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)
References
External links *  Album information at Blacknoise website