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.
Demented Love Demented Love
Upbeat dark comedy featuring piano, catchy guitar riffs and non-traditional rock and roll chord sequences, regarding a disastrous romance.
Sweet Memory Sweet Memory
Touching Classical Crossover tune, featuring vocal duet with the late Catherine Clarkson, plus an extended more powerful instrumental outro.
Swimming With The Sharks Swimming With The Sharks
Acoustic and electronic Rock. Scuba diving Catherine wrote the verse lyrics drawing a parallel between deep sea diving and life in general.
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.
Freedom Freedom
Upbeat vocal jazz-rock with searing lead guitar bridge over jungle type rhythms extolling that which we so highly value in the western world.
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.
Homeless Homeless
A touching piano and orchestral ballad regarding the plight of the homeless. Some nice lead guitar work during the end fade out. Lyrics and song story below.
Fortunate Son Fortunate Son
Cover of CCR's Fortunate Son, featuring, guitars, piano, horns, synths, bit of electronic...
Beautiful Boys Beautiful Boys
Acoustic reworking of John Lennon's tune, minus the middle 8, and the title pluralized.
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.
Summer of 69 Summer of 69
I played my first paid gig in the summer of 69. I was almost 16. My rendition of this leans more towards an E Street styling. (Story behind the song continued below)
