Frederick Serafim
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Not of This World Not of This World
Mostly electronic mid tempo tune with vocals and some guitar, written for people who are comfortable feeling excluded from the mainstream world.
Science Fiction Hero Science Fiction Hero
Science fantasy guitar / synth alt pop-rocker, with deeper implications.
Someday We'll Shine Someday We'll Shine
A multi-faceted arrangement featuring various mood, key and melody changes, with strangely optimistic lyrics.
Time for Change Time for Change
Hard to assign a genre to this multi-mood and melody tune, featuring vocals, piano, dual lead guitars, synths, key changes, and a mostly Latin-ish beat.
Shadow Walking Shadow Walking
Mystical verses flower into an uplifting, melodic chorus, depicting a couple living in the shadows and dealing constructively with inner ghosts and issues.
Refugee Tale Refugee Tale
Although I support the right of nations to control immigration, the harrowing allure is all on the side of the refugees. Hence this song featuring vocals, a driving bass line, some blazing guitar licks, piano and strings.
Little Life Little Life
For anyone who's suddenly lost a pet. Great Latin beat with some very sweet lead guitar and vocal duo with Catherine Clarkson.
Always Love Music Always Love Music
Rocker anthem featuring a driving bass line, layered guitars and synths and Catherine's heady lyrical edification of my otherwise simple title.
Fortunate Son Fortunate Son
Cover of CCR's Fortunate Son, featuring, guitars, piano, horns, synths, bit of electronic...
White Life White Life
Haunting and hard hitting, mostly spoken word hip hop/symphonic rock tune decrying racism and discrimination from the standpoint of a very concerned white man.
Beautiful Boys Beautiful Boys
Acoustic reworking of John Lennon's tune, minus the middle 8, and the title pluralized.
Since the Beginning Since the Beginning
Classical Crossover tune featuring exotic synths, harmonies and subtle key changes, evolving from mystic mellow to a buoyant R&B instrumental ending.
Old Souls Old Souls
Art-Rock exploration of mystic experience. Omens, deja vu... have we passed this way before?
Fill the Void Fill the Void
Mystic and majestic, mostly instrumental rock symphonica prelude, with just a few existential lyrics and some improvised horn / violin synth guitar solos.
Ataraxis Ataraxis
Upbeat trance featuring a main synth-brass theme and a secondary piano theme which then unite into an ultimate "peace of mind" counterpoint, in the latter part of the track.
It's Only Make Believe It's Only Make Believe
Conway Twitty wrote this song in 1958 while living in Hamilton Ontario, walking distance to where I lived years later. He was unknown at that time and his manager sent him to this less competitive medium sized country music mecca to gain experience.
Born to Run Born to Run
Solo acoustic version. Sometimes I play this at parties. It's not a song you think of as being suited for acoustic styling, but Springsteen must have played it something like this when he first wrote it. Very important song!
Phantom of the Opera Phantom of the Opera
I used to do a live vocal duet version of this song with the late Catherine Clarkson, using this self-recorded backup track. We never did record the vocal rendition, and so instead I added this improvised lead guitar instrumental.
Conquistador Conquistador
I always loved Procol Harum's Conguistador, especially the live version recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
