''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

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, 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

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series of electronic music albums. A remastered edition was released by

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(ECLEC2383) on March 25, 2013.

Track listing

All compositions by FM (

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), 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

–

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, Zildjian and Paiste cymbals, glockenspiel, Moog percussion controller with

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, PAiA programmable drum synthesizer, tympani *

– 5 string "bent" mandolin (electric), 5 string "Violite" (electric violin), 5 string viola (acoustic), 1912 "The

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" mandolin (acoustic), Fender amplifiers, vocals *

– lead vocals,

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and Electro-Harmonix FX pedals, 9.95,

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, Minimoog, (Moog) Taurus pedals, ELKA (synthesizer), Yamaha grand (piano), Rickenbacker bass, Polyfusion sequencer,

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's Moog 15 (modular synthesizer),

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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
1980 albums FM (Canadian band) albums Passport Records albums {{1980s-rock-album-stub