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Nightmusic Concert, TVOntario
Band: FM,
Host: Reiner Schwarz,
Recorded: November 3, 1976
FM's first gig was filmed for TVOntario's Nightmusic Concert, hosted by Reiner Schwarz. At the time, the band was still a duo, with Cameron Hawkins on the keyboards and Jeff Plewman on Mandolin and Violin. Within a year, Jeff would rebrand as Nash the Slash, a drummer would be added and CBC would sign the band to record their first album.
FM characterized the growing progressive rock scene in Toronto. Sales of the Mini-Moog were through the roof! In one week in 1977, I saw the bands FM, Zon and Saga in local bars ... and a year later purchased the first release of all three bands.
On this remastered version of FM's appearance on Nightmusic Concert, the original VHS video remains untouched. For the music, VHS has frequencies above 10KHz (except hiss), but there was plenty of music to work with in the mid range.
0:00 Title
0:09 Introduction
1:55 Phasors On Stun
6:09 Biography by David Pritchard
10:42 One O'Clock Tomorrow
18:20 Black Noise
Cameron Hawkins: Moog Synthesizer, Elka Rhapsody String Machine, Polyfusion Sequencer, Bass Pedals, Bass Drum. Mutron Envelope Filter, Lead Vocals
Nash The Slash: Violin, Mandolin, Pulse Sequencer, Glockenspiel, Echoplex, Rhythm Machine, Backing Vocals
Director and Producer Richard Johnson
Produced by TVOntario, 1976
For the technocrats, the audio track was resampled and four tracks of vocals, percussion, bass and other were extracted using iZotope's RX 8. The tracks were further processed to de-noise and de-hum, then re-mixed in stereo using Ableton Live to add compression, limiters, and an exciter (Ozone), then the audio was processed finally using Tonal Balance to highlight where dynamic equalization were required.
Nightmusic Concert, TVOntario
Band: FM,
Host: Reiner Schwarz,
Recorded: November 3, 1976
FM's first gig was filmed for TVOntario's Nightmusic Concert, hosted by Reiner Schwarz. At the time, the band was still a duo, with Cameron Hawkins on the keyboards and Jeff Plewman on Mandolin and Violin. Within a year, Jeff would rebrand as Nash the Slash, a drummer would be added and CBC would sign the band to record their first album.
FM characterized the growing progressive rock scene in Toronto. Sales of the Mini-Moog were through the roof! In one week in 1977, I saw the bands FM, Zon and Saga in local bars ... and a year later purchased the first release of all three bands.
On this remastered version of FM's appearance on Nightmusic Concert, the original VHS video remains untouched. For the music, VHS has frequencies above 10KHz (except hiss), but there was plenty of music to work with in the mid range.
0:00 Title
0:09 Introduction
1:55 Phasors On Stun
6:09 Biography by David Pritchard
10:42 One O'Clock Tomorrow
18:20 Black Noise
Cameron Hawkins: Moog Synthesizer, Elka Rhapsody String Machine, Polyfusion Sequencer, Bass Pedals, Bass Drum. Mutron Envelope Filter, Lead Vocals
Nash The Slash: Violin, Mandolin, Pulse Sequencer, Glockenspiel, Echoplex, Rhythm Machine, Backing Vocals
Director and Producer Richard Johnson
Produced by TVOntario, 1976
For the technocrats, the audio track was resampled and four tracks of vocals, percussion, bass and other were extracted using iZotope's RX 8. The tracks were further processed to de-noise and de-hum, then re-mixed in stereo using Ableton Live to add compression, limiters, and an exciter (Ozone), then the audio was processed finally using Tonal Balance to highlight where dynamic equalization were required.
