Album Released

Fuzion’s debut album Back In Time has now been released! Fuzion is a rock band from Kitchener, Canada. Our debut album, Back In Time, is now available to purchase for download! The band was formed in July, 1985 with the vision of writing, performing, recording and distributing original music. Back In Time is the realization of that vision!

Listen To Future Shock

Biography

Fuzion was formed in Kitchener, Canada in the summer of 1985 in the line-up of the Canadian government’s local unemployment office. (You can’t make this stuff up!) Ruben, Bill and John got together for a jam and they liked the sound and committed to forming a band that would write, record and perform original music. As they say, the rest is history! Within a year, the band was on the club-circuit play playing the biggest bars in the area. There were dreams of recording but renting time at professional recording studios was prohibitively expensive. Ruben was interested in self-recording but the technology for home studio recording was in its infancy. A record company seemed necessary to sell and promote. Alas, “all good thing come to an end”. Ruben and Bill emigrated to their native Spain and the band seemed over.

But there was more …

With the advent of the internet, it became easy for the band members to communicate. We were all only a ZOOM call away to have meetings and transfer files. The internet made distributing music easy and virtually free. Professional recording studios are now software on an off-the-shelf computer with. More importantly, Ruben was now a pretty good recording engineer and producer. Fuzion’s 1985 commit to record and distribute their music was now possible! Recording was done over several years with tracks being re-recorded, remixed (and re-recorded again …) After what seemed like eternity, the band agreed on the final mixdown and we were done. With the advent of internet music distribution, a record label is now unnecessary (maybe even obsolete) – Back in Time had dropped!

Listen To the Album

Album Back in Time Available now below

Track List

Then She Waved Goodbye

Summer Love

Remember Me

The band has always been;

Ruben Cardos – guitar & vocals

Bill Cardos – drums & backing vocals

John Vice – bass and backing vocals

Additional musician – Pau Chafer – keyboards

All songs written by Cardos–Vice–Cardos

Produced by Ruben Cardos

Recorded at;

Studio-C (Toronto, Canada) – engineered by Ruben Cardos

RC Studio (Xativa, Spain) – engineered by Pau Chafer

Mixed and mastered at El Estudio de Juguete (Valencia, Spain) by David G. Borrero

Artwork – Zach Zekl

Stories Behind the Songs

As Told by John

Future Shock

This is a thrilling song as Ruben and Bill considers this our ‘signature song’. It is also the first song we wrote together. I wrote the riff / descending chord pattern in May , 1985. As we got the groove of the verse refined, Bill suggested I take this riff down an octave. This allowed me to use my slap bass technique 🙂

In our refining process we are always trying out musical ideas. The chorus was a happy accident! As an alternate bass line, I played straight eight notes that ascended on a scale to the descending chords (Am/A bass – G/B C/F. Ruben, said “that’s the chorus!”

That night, I wrote the lyrics in a stream-of-consciousness. The basic premise is that revolutions never produce the change they intended. When an object completely revolves once, it ends up exactly where it started from. Pete Townsend, said it better “Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss”. The song title basically means that if “you say you wanna revolution” then, if you get that (in the future), the result will be an unpleasant shock. I was also reading the book by Alvin Toffler titled Future Shock at the time (which has nothing to do with my lyrics).

The next day we made minor changes to get a better lyrical flow with the music. (A process I call “smoothing”). Ruben had written the pre-intro and the bridge. While the song was refined over months (and years), we wrote the bulk of it over those two consecutive days

Wasted Youth
This is our newest song! It was an interesting collaboration as much of it was written by us sending audio files and emails back and forth. We had a few sessions with Ruben and I in the same place with Bill on a Skype call from Spain. Lyrically, it is an optimistic song about using the “years of grace” that was a new thing for our generation. Our parents were married with kids in their early 20s. In contrast, at that age, we were aspiring rock-stars. We had a decade of adulthood, from 20 to 30, to “find our space” – and we did. In that, we admonish other 20-somethings to do the same or it’s “Wasted Youth”!

I love the different feels to this song. The pre-chorus (“They say it must be good…”) has the feel of the chorus to “Photograph” by Def Leppard meets the 1920s Charleston. The bridge has a Beach Boys vibe to it.