Surveillance (FM album)

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Released 1979 Producer Keith Whiting Artist FM Label Esoteric Recordings		Length 36:09 Surveillance(1979) City of Fear(1980) Release date 1979 Genre Space rock

Recorded Sounds Interchange, Toronto Similar Direct to Disc, Black Noise, Con‑Test, Tonight, Takin' It to the Streets

Surveillance side 1 fm

Surveillance is the third album by FM, a progressive rock group from Toronto, Canada, released on Passport Records in summer 1979, the first to be "widely issued." It has been re-released for the first time in CD format on Esoteric Records in March 2013.

Fm orion horizons surveillance 1979

Track list

All compositions by Cameron Hawkins, Martin Deller, Ben Mink, except as noted.

Side 1

"Rocket Roll" – 3:29
"Orion" – 1:33
"Horizons" – 4:21
"Random Harvest" – 4:36
"Shapes of Things" (Paul Samwell-Smith, Keith Relf, Jim McCarty) – 3:07

Side 2

"Seventh Heaven" – 5:39
"Father Time" – 4:23
"Sofa Back" (Mink, B. Feldman) – 3:01
"Destruction" – 6:00

Personnel

Cameron Hawkins – lead vocals, synthesizers, bass guitar, piano

Ben Mink – electric violin, electric mandolin, vocals

Martin Deller – drums, percussion

Technical credits

Recorded at Sounds Interchange, Toronto, Canada

Produced by Keith Whiting by arrangement with Jake Productions

Engineered by Mike Jones, assisted by Ed Stone

Synthesizers produced and programmed with the assistance of Larry Fast

Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York City, USA by George Marino

Art direction: Murray Brenman

Front cover photo: Paul Till

Back cover and inner sleeve photos: John Herzog

Songs

1Rocket Roll3:29
2Orion1:30
3Horizons4:20

References

Surveillance (FM album) Wikipedia

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