City of Fear (album)

City of Fear
Studio album by FM
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
FM chronology
Surveillance (1979) City of Fear (1980) Con-Test (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.

Track listing

All compositions by FM (Martin Deller, Ben Mink, Cameron Hawkins), all lyrics by Hawkins.

Side one

1. "Krakow" – 4:37
2. "Power" – 3:28
3. "Truth or Consequences" – 4:13
4. "Lost and Found" – 4:25
5. "City of Fear" – 5:07

Side two

1. "Surface to Air" – 5:18
2. "Up to You" – 4:21
3. "Silence" – 3:22
4. "Riding the Thunder" – 4:06
5. "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

• Album information at Blacknoise website