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Studio Album, released in 1977, Canada

Deze canadese progrock formatie [niet te verwarren met de engelse  melodic rock band met dezelde naam] heeft in de late 70"s een aantal leuke albums gemaakt.
Dit debuut vond ik persoonlijk altijd het beste.


FM´s debut album Black Noise is a very good symphonic prog rock album. If you like albums like Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures from Rush or some of Saga´s early albums or especially UK´s albums. 
Black Noise needs to be in your record collection. FM has their own sound though so don´t write them off as a clone in fact Black Noise came one year before UK´s debut which it has many similarities to so who´s copying who ?

Black Noise is a very melodic album and there are lots of synth and sequencer layers in the songs. The album has an unmistakable eighties flavour to it that is also due to the AOR influenced vocals in a song like Phasors on stun. I don´t particularly like the vocals in this song but fortunately they are much better in some of the other songs. The vocals are not that dominant though and Black Noise has lots of long instrumental parts without vocals. Nash the Slash also plays some electric violin parts that are very beautiful. In fact the whole album reeks of class both in the compositions and in the playing.


Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Phasors on stun (3:49)
2. One o"clock tomorrow (6:05)
3. Hours (2:36)
4. Journey (4:41)
5. Dialing for Dharma (3:15)
6. Slaughter in robot village (5:02)
7. Aldeberan (5:02)
8. Black noise (9:56)

Total Time: 40:26

Line-up / Musicians

- Martin Deller / drums, percussion, Arp 2500 synthesizers
- Cameron Hawkins / lead vocals, piano, synths, bass, sequencer
- Nash the "Slash" / electric violin, vocals, elelectric mandolin, glockenspiel, f/x

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