Whoa! Did you know Terry Brown mixed the new FM album, Transformation?

He brought together the original audio tracks that were recorded at each band member’s home studio.

This album is going to make the year’s Top Ten lists, mark my words.

Terry explains why in the liner notes:

Producer’s Notes…

I have always thought of FM as Canada’s quintessential Prog band – arriving on the scene in 1976 with the stunning ‘Black Noise’ album and the Prog-hit ‘Phasors on Stun’. But it was not until 1996 that I got to work with FM and produce ‘RetroActive’ live with the original three-piece. Moving forward a few years I knew that a new FM album was in the works, but when I got the call to mix ‘Transformation’ in December of 2014, I knew it was going to be Christmas with a difference. And what a difference!

The line-up is now a four-piece, but with Cameron’s distinct vocal styling, keyboard wizardry and rock-solid bass playing, the sound is classic FM. Paul DeLong has brought his astounding drum chops to the mix along with Aaron Solomon and Edward Bernard who are sharing the violin, viola, string sections and background vocals.

All the tunes on ‘Transformation’ are written with an energy that is contagious, they all have very strong melodies delivered with passion, use cleverly veiled time signatures and, save for some brief ethereal moments, are brought home with a driving edge. This is a must-have album for your collection – I hope you enjoy listening to FM Transformation as much as I did during the mix sessions!

Terry Brown [2015]

Don’t miss this spectacular album.

Truly, Rush’s loss is FM’s gain!